Biography
John is a member of the firm's Corporate, Entertainment & Sports Law, Litigation and Intellectual Property departments.
He represents a variety of high-profile clients, including award-winning creatives, multiplatinum recording artists and producers and celebrity entertainers. With certifications in Business Analytics from Harvard Business School and Transactional Law from Emory University School of Law, John provides counseling on various topics related to business disputes, litigation prevention and crisis management as well as non-litigation matters. He has high-level experience drafting, analyzing and negotiating agreements involving content and distribution, production, marketing, management, photography, licensing, concerts and other subjects.
John also has intellectual property experience, representing athletes, producers, recording artists, record companies, television networks and entertainment production companies on various IP matters. He has appeared in state and federal courts across the United States, and has obtained successful outcomes in multimillion-dollar lawsuits.
Before Fox Rothschild
Before joining Fox, John was an associate at an Atlanta-based firm. He worked as a legal intern with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, Fox Television stations and Interscope records. John was also a summer associate and legal assistant at a leading personal injury firm in Atlanta.
During law school, he volunteered as a law instructor at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta and created a scholarship to support Hampton University students pursing legal careers.
As an undergrad, he was President of the Pre-Law Honor Society and the Hampton University Pre-Law Institute.
Beyond Fox Rothschild
In addition to his law practice, John is the co-founder of a nonprofit organization, S.A.D.E.’s Hope, Inc., which serves teenage and millennial victims of domestic violence, and of a “record label” for photographers, called Collective Gallery, which invests in photographers’ dreams just as other labels do for musicians and other artists. His dream is to one day shift the cultural paradigm, using his love of the law as a vehicle for change.
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
Education
- Emory University School of Law (J.D., Dean's List, 2018)
- Transactional Law Certificate
- American Bar Association, Dick Goehler Scholar
- Emory Order of the Advocates
- Harvard Business School (Certificate in Business Analytics, 2020)
- Hampton University (B.A., cum laude, 2014)
- Dean's List
Memberships
- The Recording Academy
- State Bar of Georgia, Entertainment and Sports Law Section
- American Bar Association, Business Law/Entertainment and Sports Law/Communications Law/ Litigation Section
- Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association
- Gate City Bar Association
- Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International
- Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the "Top 40 Under 40: Nation's Best Advocates" by the National Bar Association (2025)
- Selected to the "Ones to Watch" list for Intellectual Property Law (2025-2026) and Entertainment and Sports Law (2026) in Atlanta, GA by Best Lawyers
- Received Powerhouse Award by Black Music Moguls (2024)
- Selected to the "40 Under Forty" list by Emory University (2023)
- Selected to the "40 Under 40" list by Georgia Trend Magazine (2023)
- Selected to the "Dealmakers Impact Report" list by Variety (2022, 2025)
- Named to Daily Report's list of attorneys "On the Rise" (2022)
- Named to Billboard Magazine's "Top Music Lawyers" list (2020-2022)
- Named to Variety's Legal Impact Report (2021, 2022)
- Selected to the "Super Lawyers Rising Stars" list for Entertainment & Sports Law in Georgia (2022-2025)
- Selected to the list of HBCU Top 30 Under 30 by HBCU Buzz (2021)
- 2018 CALI Award, Legal Writing, Evidence, Transactional Drafting

