Tell us about your biggest client wins this year. [The firm] secured a monumental victory against the NCAA in the antitrust case challenging NCAA rules limiting compensation to student athletes playing Division I football or basketball. After the court approved a $209 million settlement in the damage phase, trial took place in September 2018 on the injunctive portion. In March 2019, [U.S. District] Judge Claudia Wilken granted an injunction which prohibits the NCAA from enforcing any rules that fix or limit compensation provided to college-athletes other than cash compensation untethered to education-related expenses. The NCAA is now "permanently restrained and enjoined from agreeing to fix or limit compensation or benefits related to education."

What's the best lesson you learned as a young lawyer? Keep it simple. I try to focus on the core of the case and make things simple as instead of getting lost in the details.

What's been the most significant change in your practice area and how have you adjusted? Class certification can be much more complicated than it used to be.

Share an interesting fact about your firm that few know. I cross-examined the Ohio State athletic director while wearing a Michigan pin and tie. My first words: "It's you and me, Michigan v. Ohio State."

Submitted by Steve Berman, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro managing partner.