Atlanta music industry attorney Joel A. Katz resigns from Greenberg Traurig

Joel A. Katz, the founding chairman of Greenberg Traurig's global media and entertainment business and a strong Atlanta law firm, has exited "through mutual understanding."

A statement from the company's executive chairman Richard A. Rosenbaum said that Katz resigned on December 31.

The statement also read: "Our global entertainment business remains strong and diverse. With the assistance of President Bobby Rosenbloum in Atlanta, Vice President Barbara Meil​​i in New York, and Dan Black in Los, it is the largest and most dynamic in the world. And the most highly rated business. Los Angeles and our Los Angeles entertainment practice founder Jay Cooper (Jay Cooper), Atlanta’s famous music lawyer Jess Rosen (Jess Rosen) and New York’s Paul Schindler (Paul Schindler) ) Etc. We thank Mr. Katz for his contributions over the years. There is no further comment at this time."

A spokesperson for Katz confirmed that the lawyer notified Greenberg Traurig of his resignation on December 31 and said he is currently on vacation.

January 2020,

, The Chief Executive Officer of the Recording Academy who has worked for a record company for several months since August 2019. Dugan submitted a 46-page statement to the Equal Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles, claiming that at the 2019 dinner, Katz repeatedly commented on her appearance as a "baby". Invite her to travel on a private jet and try to kiss her.

Katz "categorically" denied the allegation through his lawyer.

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Katz

He has been working in the Recording Academy since the late 1980s.

Katz has been the external general counsel of the Recording Academy since 2002, which won a Grammy Award and served as a board member of the Academy in the mid-1990s.

In 2016, he negotiated a $600 million agreement to keep the Grammy Awards and additional Recording Academy programs on CBS until 2026. He is also a frequent visitor to the "Power 100" list of Billboard's annual music business tycoons.

Katz's influence in Atlanta was profound. He was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1995, and in 2008, Governor Sonny Perdue renamed part of Northside Parkway to Joel Katz Parkway. Katz's nickname is also associated with the Kennesaw State Music and Entertainment Business Plan, which was named by Billboard as one of the top music business schools in the United States in 2019.

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Melissa Ruggieri

Since 2010, Melissa Ruggieri has been reporting on music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has created an Atlanta Music Live Blog. She has kept vampire time for more than two decades, and she still remembers when MTV was great.

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