I am Senior Counsel in the Boston office of Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP, a national management-side labor and employment firm. I have more than 14 years of experience at law firms, in-house, and in academia, with extensive experience in sports, litigation, and labor and employment. In particular, from November 2018 to March 2021, I was General Counsel for D.C. United of Major League Soccer and related entities. Otherwise, I have extensive experience advising teams, athletes, agents, and other parties in the sports industry on a variety of matters. I have published more than 30 academic publications on the law and business of sports and am currently a lecturer in sports law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. I graduated from UMass-Amherst with a B.S. in Sport Management in 2006 and received my J.D./M.B.A. from Fordham Law School and its Graduate School of Business in 2010.
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