Boies Schiller & Flexner has emerged the winner of a litigation beauty contest held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Partner William Isaacson will lead the UFC’s defense against a potential antitrust class action by current and former professional mixed martial arts fighters.
UFC and its Las Vegas-based parent company, Zuffa LLC, were hit with a complaint last month in San Jose that accuses the organization of monopolizing professional mixed martial arts fighting. The three lead plaintiffs—current UFC fighter Cung Le and ex-fighters Jon Fitch and Nathan Quarry—claim they faced restrictive working conditions and had their pay artificially suppressed because of the UFC’s anticompetitive practices.
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