Legal Malpractice Suit Filed by Former Republic Records Exec Charlie Walk Dismissed by Judge

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William Earl A legal malpractice suit filed by former Republic Records president Charlie Walk against attorney Marc Kasowitz has been dismissed by a New York judge, court papers reveal.

In 2018, Walk resigned from his executive position at the record label that’s home to The Weeknd, Post Malone and Ariana Grande after he was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women with whom he worked at Sony Music some 15 years earlier — two spoke on the record to Rolling Stone after accuser Tristan Coopersmith went public with a blog post on Jan.

30, 2018.As part of the settlement with parent company Universal Music Group (UMG), Walk, who had also served as a judge on the Fox singing competition series “The Four,” was paid his severance (a base salary of more than $1.5 million) plus a 2017 bonus ($1.7 million), which was negotiated by Kasowitz of the firm Kasowitz, Benson Torres.

But in a March 2021 lawsuit, Walk asserted that his attorney, whose previous clients include former President Donald Trump, “botched” the settlement negotiation, claiming that he was given bad counsel, did not understand the terms and felt pressure to take the deal.