Sports Law Attorney in New York, New York

Your firm has established what it calls, the first college-focused division at a major law firm? What was the impetus for this?

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For a very long time we’ve looked at the plight of the Division I athletes in basketball and football where you now see schools earning literally billions of dollars from these two sports. The coaches make millions of dollars. The athletic directors make millions of dollars. The entire university structure has been transformed by engaging in these businesses and yet the only ones who have been prohibited from benefiting in any way has been the athletes. And it got to a point where this become so apparent, the emperor has no clothes, that we felt it was time to try to give the same legal rights to these players as are given to professional athletes under the antitrust laws and under other legal regimes that exist so we got interested in this. We formed a group to focus on this and we’re now engaged in a major litigation battle to achieve those rights.

New York antitrust and sports law attorney Jeffrey Kessler of Winston & Strawn discusses how his firm created the first college-focused practice group at a big law firm.

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