Flaster Greenberg, a mid-sized commercial law firm celebrating 50 years of legal excellence, is proud to announce the launch of its Sports Law Industry Group in partnership with its Business and Corporate Law, Insurance Counseling & Recovery, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Labor & Employment Departments.
The firm’s Sports Law Industry Group offers the sophisticated and focused services of attorneys who understand the unique challenges clients in the sports industry face on a daily basis. Our attorneys recognize that each client has a distinct set of opportunities, goals, and challenges, and they work tirelessly, with their clients in mind, to maximize those opportunities, meet their goals, and overcome any challenges.
Jeffrey A. Cohen, chair of the firm’s litigation department, said, “Our firm is excited to launch our Sports Law Industry Group. The synergy between our attorneys who share a love for a variety of sports in their private lives and serve athletes, sports personalities, professional organizations, universities, coaches, and front office personnel professionally is a major win for our clients. Our Sports Law Industry Group is comprised of a talented team of attorneys who are eager to put their resources into an official industry group. The team is well-equipped to provide sophisticated legal advice and practical assistance to professionals facing legal issues in the world of sports and we look forward to helping them.”
The attorneys who make up our Sports Law Industry Group have decades of experience representing companies in different types of sports and hail from a variety of legal fields and backgrounds—including business and corporate law, insurance counseling and recovery, intellectual property, litigation, and labor and employment. They serve as the trusted legal advisors to professional and amateur athletes, coaches, owners, executives, leagues, universities/colleges, teams, manufacturers, distributors, licensors, and vendors.
“Formalizing our Sports Law Industry Group is exciting for the firm and my practice. It has been a blast combining my experience and passion for women’s sports with my law practice. It’s also wonderful to see our crew heavily embedded in the women’s sports space. We have our thumb on the pulse of the industry and offer the players, professionals, and organizations necessary legal counsel to ensure their success,” adds Susie Cirilli, labor and employment shareholder.
Flaster Greenberg Sports Law Industry Group lawyers counsel clients on routine and complex business issues and personnel policies and procedures; draft, negotiate, and secure agreements and contracts (employment, vendor, licensing, sponsor, executive); defend and enforce intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, copyrights, name, image, likeness); evaluate insurance coverage and liability claims; represent individuals in litigation matters, and more.
About Flaster Greenberg
Flaster Greenberg, a midsize business law firm with offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic and in Florida, has been providing legal services to publicly traded corporations, privately held and family owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals for 50 years. With locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Florida, Flaster Greenberg serves a broad range of clients in dozens of industries and practice areas including aviation law, bankruptcy, business & corporate, cannabis, commercial litigation, environmental, family law, gaming, healthcare, insurance recovery, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, taxation and trusts and estates.
