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Sports and Entertainment

Hausfeld LLP represents current and former collegiate and professional athletes, as well as other parties of interest, in a wide-variety of matters in the sports and entertainment industries, including in some of the most high-profile antitrust class action matters currently pending in the country. The firm combines deep complex litigation skills, including federal, state and international court and mediation experience, to provide clients with a full spectrum of advice and options.

Attorneys at the firm additionally have represented professional sports leagues, professional sports teams, and professional player agents and player representatives, as well as musicians, artists, and others in the entertainment field. The firm provides counseling and advocacy in a wide-range of areas, including antitrust, copyright/likeness, licensing, royalty payments, labor relations, eligibility and endorsement / personal appearance issues.

Attorneys from the firm have been quoted and cited in numerous publications on sports litigation topics , including in The New York Times, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, ESPN.com, Bloomberg news, SportsBusiness Journal, and Yahoo! Sports, and have been interviewed on NPR Radio, CBS Radio, and numerous other forums. The firm’s current litigation against the NCAA has been featured in depth on programs such as PBS’ Frontline and HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Hausfeld LLP’s attorneys additionally are frequent panelists on sports litigation topics, including at Harvard Law School’s 2011 Sports Law Symposium.

In one of the firm’s current matters, it represents former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and thousands of former NCAA Division I men’s basketball and football players in an antitrust class action alleging that the NCAA violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully foreclosing former players from receiving any compensation related to the use of their images and likenesses in the collegiate licensing market.
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In another pending antitrust class action, the firm’s clients include four retired or former NFL players - Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller (who heads the Retired Players Association), Pro Bowl running back Priest Holmes, fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo and tight end Ryan Collins - and they on behalf of thousands of NFL retirees are pursuing claims against the NFL and its 32 member clubs, claiming that the owners' lockout and various other practices violate federal law.
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These matters have been the subject of intensive public interest, and numerous articles of interest and court filings are located at the links below in the “Cases and Current Investigations” section.

Contingent fee arrangements are often utilized by the firm to create a full partnership with our clients to maximize the recovery. Hausfeld LLP welcomes the opportunity to conduct due diligence of prospective claims without obligation to retain the firm.

Cases and Current Investigations

» Chuck D. v. Universal Music Group
» Dryer v. NFL
» NCAA
» NFL
» Sister Sledge v. Warner Music

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