Former Republic Records President Charlie Walk has sued his ex-lawyer Marc Kasowitz for “legal malpractice” over the handling of sexual misconduct allegations in 2018 that resulted in Walk’s exit from Universal Music Group.
According to a lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday (March 25), Walk is seeking $60 million in damages for Kasowitz’s alleged “botched representation” during Walk’s departure from UMG, which the suit says “had catastrophic results for Mr. Walk’s career”.
Walk exited Republic Records after five years with the company in 2018, having denied the allegations.
Those accusations of sexual harassment were levelled at Walk by a former colleague called Tristan Coopersmith, who published an open letter on a now-non-existent blog in January 2018.
Coopersmith accused Walk of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace at Sony‘s Columbia Records, around 15 years prior to the blog being published.
Walk was EVP of Creative Marketing and Promotion of the Sony label at the time of the alleged incident.
