Several Am Law 100 firms helped Ivy League universities prevail in an antitrust class action accusing the elite Division I conference members of failing to award athletic scholarships and compensate college athletes in violation of the Sherman Act.
A Connecticut federal judge dismissed the complaint against all eight Ivy League schools and the governing body represented by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, King & Spalding, Jenner & Block, Sullivan & Cromwell, Crowell & Moring, Hogan Lovells and Covington & Burling.