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The American Lawyer

This Ex-Dewey Lawyer Wants to Save Your Fantasy Football Team

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf and Jones Day associate Frank Salzano is trying to help his star client—Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott—get back on the field for the start of the National Football League season, now less than two weeks away.
40 minute read

The American Lawyer

The Rally Cat Isn't the Story, But His Big Mouth Lawyer Is

Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals stepped into a minefield in a viral custody battle over the so-called Rally Cat. How could the team know that the lawyer on the other side of its feline fight would have a history garnering outsize media attention for trivial cases?
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

NFL? The Premier League is Here—and So Are the Lawyers

The National Football League season is approaching in the U.S., but across the pond, lawyers are reaping the benefits from a record-setting summer for soccer players in the U.K. Several firms have scored big on deals in the English Premier League, where clubs are setting new spending records in the search for talent.
4 minute read

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

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