The Board conducts its work through committees including, but not limited to: Annual Conference, Programs, Scholarships, and Sponsorships/Fundraising.
Founding Partner
Arrington and Phillips, LLP
Recognized nationally as one of the most influential attorneys in entertainment and culture, Vincent “Vince” Phillips is a trailblazing attorney, music executive, prolific business strategist, genre-transforming global brand creator, and social anthropologist.
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With a career spanning more than two decades, Atlanta native Vince Phillips is a Founding Partner at Arrington and Phillips, LLP, specializing in entertainment law. A c k n o w l e d g e d a s a B i l l b o a r d T o p M u s i c L aw y e r f o r s e v e r a l y e a r s , Vince is one of the music industry’s most accomplished and sought-after attorneys, representing artists and producing cultural phenomena that changed the landscape of urban and global music. He currently represents several chart-topping recording artists, independent labels and award-winning film and television actors and executives.
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Vince is considered a pioneer for the Atlanta entertainment industry. Vince was a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of BME Recordings, LLC, co-founded with multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning producer and artist Lil Jon. As one of the most successful independent hip hop record labels and publishers in America, BME created a sub-genre of hip hop that rocked and transformed a generation.
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A graduate of Georgia State University and the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta, Vince is member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the Georgia State Bar Association and the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association. He is tireless in his work to end youth exploitation and human sex trafficking and serves on the Board of Directors of youthSpark, a nonprofit organization providing support services, interventions, and public policy advocacy for victims of abuse and Meals on Wheels Atlanta (MOWA). He also serves as a strategic advisor to Beloved Villages, a start-up social enterprise focused on building, scaling and replicating the beloved community of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream.
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Vince is an avid reader, father of two and community servant with a passion for humanitarian and sustainability issues impacting the world.