By Joseph Evans | August 24, 2017
The National Football League season is approaching in the U.S., but across the pond, lawyers are reaping the benefits from a record-setting summer for soccer players in the U.K. Several firms have scored big on deals in the English Premier League, where clubs are setting new spending records in the search for talent.
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 Todd Cunningham | August 23, 2017
The start of the 2017 National Football League season may seem like a hot mess to fans–especially those in San Diego, St. Louis and Oakland–but it looks like another banner year for the attorneys who keep it all legal. By any measure, 2016 was a boom year for Big Law and the NFL.
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 Todd Cunningham | August 18, 2017
Against a backdrop of political polarization the case of Colin Kaepernick, the ex-San Francisco 49ers quarterback who is unsigned by any NFL team, and who sat out the pregame national anthem in protest, may be a test, or a black eye, for the NFL.
By Richard Ben-Veniste | August 17, 2017
How Mayer Brown's Richard Ben-Veniste earned a gold record for helping a client blot out the sun.
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 14, 2017
Los Angeles-based Munger, Tolles & Olson has been hired to represent the Hollywood studios and film companies behind a handful of box office blockbusters in several copyright infringement suits brought over their use of the MOVA Contour special effects system.
By Kate Brumback | August 14, 2017
Augusta National Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit against Florida-based Green Jacket Auctions Inc. seeking to stop the company from selling a champion's green jacket and two member green jackets, as well as silverware and a belt buckle bearing Augusta National's map and flag logo.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
The court found that it could not determine to a legal certainty that fencing club could not meet the $75,000 amount in controversy requirement in fencing club's breach of contract and unjust enrichment action against fencing coach and club pleaded sufficient facts to form the elements of breach of contract and breach of the noncompete agreement because coach's argument that he had no obligation to schedule any classes at all was an "evasion of the spirit of the bargain." Motion to dismiss denied.
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