Gail Boyd is President of Gail W. Boyd, P.C., an entertainment law firm, and Gail Boyd Artist Management, a wholly owned company of the law firm. She is a graduate of De Paul University and De Paul University School of Law. She was a founding partner in Boyd, Staton and Cave, the first African American female law firm in New York.In November, 2019, Gail was elected President of the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents (NAPAMA). She assumed the office in January 2020. Gail is also the Chairperson of the Board of the Pan African Center for Empowerment, and serves on the board of the Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King Memorial. Gail is also a member of the Board of the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC) as well as the Cape May Jazz Festival Foundation.Gail Boyd has been involved in entertainment law since 1976. She has been involved specifically in music with a specialty in jazz since 1979.For nearly 20 years, Gail served as Chairperson of the Board of South Brooklyn Legal Services. She is the former Vice Chair of the Entertainment, Sports, and Art Law Committee of the National Bar Association. She also chaired the Entertainment, Sports, Art Law Committee of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association and served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Entertainment Law. She served as a member of the Jazz Jam Committee of the National Association of Recording, Arts & Sciences. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and WBGO FM Radio in New York.Gail is Co-Executive Director of Vanguard Arts, a consulting firm for the arts, together with Karen Kennedy. Gail is also the founder and producer of the daily Alternative Venues for Jazz Talks on Facebook. As a lawyer, Gail Boyd has represented jazz artists such as Betty Carter, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Sphere, Stefon Harris, Gretchen Parlato, James Francies, and Randy Weston. Artists currently represented by Gail Boyd Artist Management are:John Clayton, The Clayton Brothers Quintet, Don Braden, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Scott Tixier, Richie Goods, Dayramir Gonzalez, James Brandon Lewis, Brianna Thomas and Jade Solomon Curtis.Specialties: Contract negotiation, brainstorming sessions, artist management, entertainment law, corporate training, Training in Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Team Building, Response to Dominance, Resistance to Change, and other topics.
Listed skills include Entertainment, Music, Copyright Law, Recording, and 46 others.