Sports and Entertainment

Our coast-to-coast Sports and Entertainment team understands the issues unique to these interconnected industries. We assist entertainment studios, global media companies, major league sports franchises, and related entities by developing comprehensive litigation strategies for claims brought by current and former employees, advising on risks ranging from cybersecurity to intellectual property, and providing counsel on enterprise-level and industry-wide risk management. Practice highlights include:

• Facilitation of industry-wide joint defense programs geared toward creating employer control and cost-savings
• Proactive claim-closure strategies for everyday work-related injuries as well as occupational disease and cumulative trauma claims, including traumatic brain injury litigation
• Internal partnerships with franchises, studios, brokers, and other companies for generation of value-added services and fast, effective litigation plans
• Deep industry experience — including attorneys with decades spent immersed in the unique issues affecting these fields, as well as former major league, minor league, and NCAA athletes

Alongside our robust and nationwide litigation capabilities, we offer clients in the sports and entertainment fields:

• Day-to-day business counsel: Experience in data privacy and digital marketing issues, media and entertainment litigation, intellectual property licensing and transactions, ownership and operating agreements, employment and labor law, and specialty insurance coverage and litigation
• Cybersecurity: Cyber Incident Response team dedicated to handling data breaches and related incidents, and experience counseling clients on data collection, data protection, insurance coverage, and related issues
• Comprehensive live entertainment and event experience: “Soup to nuts” legal services for live entertainment, including contracts, insurance coverage, construction, Dram Shop laws, employment and traditional labor laws, workers’ compensation, ERISA, and all types of liability claims

In addition to providing daily counsel and timely client updates on breaking legal news in sports and entertainment, our attorneys regularly contribute to the firm’s Sports and Entertainment Law Insider™ blog. General Counsel for major league sports franchises, executives at entertainment studios, media lawyers, and others in the sports and entertainment industries turn to our attorneys and blog contributors for analysis and informed predictions around the latest developments in sports and entertainment law.