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New York Law Journal

Litigator and NFL Nemesis Quinn Trains Barbs at Football Establishment

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.
4 minute read

The Recorder

NFL Franchise Moves and Controversies Create a Lucrative Playing Field for Big Law

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.
22 minute read

The American Lawyer

Wachtell, Sheppard Mullin Tapped for NBA's Paul George Probe

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.
5 minute read

The Recorder

NFL's Cold Shoulder to Kaepernick May Leave League Out in the Cold, Legally

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.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Real Fake News: Washington, DC's Unpredicted Solar Eclipse

How Mayer Brown's Richard Ben-Veniste earned a gold record for helping a client blot out the sun.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Half-Dozen Firms Help Jeter's Group Reel in MLB's Marlins

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.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Munger Tolles & Olson to Defend Studios in MOVA Technology Lawsuit

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.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Augusta National Sues to Stop Auction of Green Jackets

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.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Liberty Fencing Club, LLC v. Fernandez-Prada, PICS Case No. 17-1230 (E.D. Pa. July 14, 2017) Kelly, J. (27 pages).

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.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Phish Fans Claim Ticket Site Phished Them for $10K

The couple realized after they bought the tickets in February that they'd been phished away from what they thought was a Ticketmaster website to an unknown vendor's website.
7 minute read

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