Universal Music`s Jeff Harleston Honored with 2020 ELI Service Award: `We Need to Embrace Change`
(WorldNews Music)

The Recording Academy presented Universal Music Group’s Jeff Harleston with the 2020 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Service Award -- the annual honor that celebrates attorneys who have `demonstrated a commitment to advancing and supporting the music community through service� -- in a ceremony held Friday afternoon (Jan. 24) in Santa Monica. Prior to taking the stage at the event held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows, Harleston, the company’s worldwide general counsel and executive vp of business & legal affairs, was praised by Universal chairman and CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, who called him a “brilliant attorney with an ear for talent and a mind...