Two years ago Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and its cocounsel at McKool Smith scored a major victory on behalf of 2,062 retired National Football League players by winning a $28 million damages judgment after a federal jury found the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) had wrongly excluded retirees from the union’s marketing deals.
“The day the trial was over, we were just elated,” says Manatt litigation partner Peter Parcher, who handled the case along with the firm’s sports law chair and IP litigator Ronald Katz. “We really came to see the retired guys as not being treated the way you would treat elders in a family. We worked days, nights, and weekends on this against some formidable opposition.”
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