X.M. Frascogna, Jr. is the senior partner in the law firm of FRASCOGNA COURTNEY, PLLC which was established in 1972 in Jackson, Mississippi. He has been involved in international corporate litigation and commercial transactions, corporate acquisitions and mergers, copyright and trademark matters together with an extensive practice in entertainment and sports law. Frascogna remains active in alternative dispute resolution, serving on the American Arbitration Association's panel of arbitrators and mediators. He has arbitrated and mediated numerous international and domestic commercial disputes. In addition, Frascogna has experience in hostage negotiation.

He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Mississippi and all state courts of Mississippi. Frascogna served as a Bar Commissioner of the Mississippi State Bar Association from 1994-1997.

Frascogna is a graduate of Mississippi State University (BS -1969, MA - 1970) and Mississippi College (MBA - 1976, MSS -1982) and the Mississippi College School of Law (JD with distinction - 1972). He is a member of the American Bar Association (Forum Committee on Entertainment and Sports Law and the Section of Alternative Dispute Resolution) and Mississippi State Bar Association.

Frascogna has been an adjunct Professor of Law since 1978 at the Mississippi College School of Law where he teaches an innovative course in negotiation to third-year students. He is the co-author of This Business of Artist Management, now is its third edition (with Hetherington) published by Billboard Books in New York City. The book, which is the standard reference work on artist management in the music business, received the coveted ASCAP Deems Taylor Book Award. This Business of Internet Law (with Hetherington and Howell) will be published by Billboard Books in September, 2001. Frascogna is a frequent lecturer on the topic of negotiation and is currently working with Lee Hetherington on a new negotiative book to be titled The 5000-Year-Old Formula: Negotiation From Moses To Next Monday Morning.

X.M. Frascogna, Jr. works in the firm's Jackson, Mississippi office and may be reached via e-mail at mfrascogna@frascourtlaw.com.