Kevon Glickman, Entertainment Chair
kglickman@jacobslawpc.com

Before starting Respect, Kevon worked as an attorney in the fields of music, music publishing, music production, management, back-office functions for label start-ups, label acquisitions and dispositions, label joint ventures, label financing, licensing, distribution, artist contracts, producer agreements, publishing agreements, intellectual property, copyright and trademark matters, band and name disputes, royalty income securitization, executive compensation, employment issues, athletes, promoters, agents, concert tours, managers, technology matters, digital distribution, vinyl distribution, strategic international alliances in Europe and Asia, radio station ownership and operations issues, theater, visual arts, motion pictures, merchandising, franchises, royalty issues and litigation.

Kevon’s current clients include Rick Ross on Slip N Slide/Def Jam, Trina on Atlantic, and Kulcha Don on Ruffantion.  He is also the publisher of soulstress Leela James.

From 1999 to 2002 Kevon was President and Chief Operating Officer of Ruffnation Records, a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records; RuffLife Records, an independent label distributed by ADA and Ruffsongs Music Publishing. Ruffsongs presently has songs on the 8 Mile and State Property soundtracks. Eminem recently won an Academy Award in the category of Best Song for a track featured on the 8 Mile soundtrack. Kevon also served as the music supervisor for the Bait soundtrack.

From 1994 to 1999 Kevon was Sr. Vice President/General Counsel for Ruffhouse Records, a joint venture with Sony Entertainment, which sold over 50 million albums in the urban and dance genres. Notably, Ruffhouse was responsible for the highest selling rap album of all time, The Fugees’, The Score, which also garnered two Grammy Awards, and Lauryn Hill’s, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won five Grammy Awards.

Prior to joining Ruffhouse in 1994, Kevon’s private practice in New York City included, among others, representation of cutting edge artists D’Angelo, a two time Grammy Award winner, and Funkmaster Flex, celebrity DJ extraordinaire.

Kevon’s first job in the industry, in 1988, was that of staff attorney for Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. At the same time Kevon promoted New York’s Limelight Nightclub.

Kevon is also a partner in the Radio Woodstock Network.

Mr. Glickman is a graduate of Emory University, where he earned his B.A. (1982), and John Marshall Law School, where he earned his J.D. (1987). In addition he studied international business law at King’s College in London (1986). He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  He is also a frequent lecturer at Temple University, Drexel, Widener Law School and teaches the “Music Business Management” course at Cabrini College.

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