By Andrew Denney | September 26, 2017
Federal prosecutors unveiled fraud and bribery indictments on Tuesday against NCAA coaches and representatives from a major sportswear company that were the product of a two-year investigation that the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said exposed the "dark underbelly" of college basketball.
By Brian Baxter and Roy Strom | September 22, 2017
Jeffrey Kessler, a veteran antitrust litigator in the sports arena, is taking aim at the governing body for soccer in the U.S. The 71-page complaint recently filed by a team of Winston & Strawn litigators led by Kessler against the U.S. Soccer Federation—advised by Latham & Watkins—had been at least two years in the making.
By Lizzy McLellan and Christine Simmons | September 12, 2017
In its second merger announcement in two weeks, Ballard Spahr has reached a deal to add 25 lawyers from media law boutique Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz.
By Meghan Tribe | August 31, 2017
Maria Sharapova is set to take the court Friday night at the U.S. Open in New York, the latest step in a return to the court for the five-time Grand Slam champion following a 15-month ban for taking the banned substance meldonium. Cheering her on will be Fox Rothschild's litigation co-chair John Haggerty.
By Andrew Denney | August 29, 2017
Under the terms of a consent decree borne of a "blood oath" undertaken 40 years ago by the surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band's former drummer can never produce a biopic about the band's final years, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.
By Brian Baxter | August 28, 2017
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf and Jones Day associate Frank Salzano is trying to help his star client—Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott—get back on the field for the start of the National Football League season, now less than two weeks away.
By Todd Cunningham | August 24, 2017
As the NFL enters a new season less than two weeks from now, it's never spun more cash nor spun off more controversy. And legendary litigator and antitrust specialist James Quinn, one of the country's most experienced sports lawyers, has no shortage of observations to make, and work to do, in football-related matters.
By Brian Baxter | August 21, 2017
The two Am Law 100 firms are advising the National Basketball Association and Los Angeles Lakers, respectively, in an investigation into whether the latter tampered with former Indianapolis Pacers star forward Paul George.
By Brian Baxter | August 14, 2017
Wachtell, Skadden, Proskauer Rose, Foley & Lardner and Akerman are among a handful of large law firms advising on the proposed $1.2 billion sale of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins to an ownership group led by former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter and venture capitalist Bruce Sherman.
By Todd Cunningham | August 2, 2017
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an amicus brief in support of John Oliver, HBO and Time Warner, all of whom have been targeted in a defamation lawsuit filed by coal mogul Robert Murray over comments made on the comedian's "Last Week Tonight" late-night TV show.
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