Two years after hiring former sports agent Gregg Clifton to build out its collegiate and professional sports practice, labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis has been retained by a member of Penn State’s board of trustees to appeal National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions levied against the school in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Clifton and Paul Kelly, a former executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association hired by Jackson Lewis earlier this year, are leading a team from the firm representing Ryan McCombie, one of three Penn State alums elected to the school’s board of trustees in May.

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