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The union for National Basketball Association players said Wednesday it has promoted longtime in-house attorney Ron Klempner to general counsel as part of a leadership changeover ahead of negotiations for the next league labor agreement.

A California check cashing company charged with violating anti-money-laundering rules while cashing at least $18 million in checks from an illegal sports gambling ring sent its attorney unaccompanied to enter a guilty plea Tuesday, prompting the judge to warn that a company representative must appea…

Retired Boston Celtics center Glen “Big Baby” Davis violated his bail conditions in the $4 million NBA health plan fraud case to watch his former team face off against the Brooklyn Nets this past weekend, his lawyer acknowledged in a court filing Wednesday.

The NFL’s one-year suspension of star Atlanta Falcons receiver Calvin Ridley for betting on league games was hailed by experts as a compliance success story, even as it shows that leagues must do more to educate players amid the proliferation of legal betting.

The National Hockey League failed to show that its teams would be entitled to coverage for their pandemic losses, a California judge said Thursday, in a tentative ruling that knocked the league for not alleging covered physical loss or damage.

NFL concussion class counsel Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP, the NFL and two former players struck back at the allegation by a Goldberg Persky & White PC attorney that class counsel breached a fiduciary duty to the class in allowing the controversial use of race-norming to enter the settlement…

The U.S. Soccer Federation and women’s national team players have reached a $24 million settlement to end the high-profile equal pay and pay discrimination litigation just weeks before the Ninth Circuit was set to hear the case, the sides announced Tuesday.

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP’s sports and gaming practice leader is on the move with plans to join Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP as early as April, Law360 confirmed Monday.

The expansion of sports gambling will continue to face roadblocks in state legislatures, and the NCAA could see its legal bills mount as it fights pay-for-play in college sports, according to industry attorneys’ predictions for 2022.

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged 18 former National Basketball Association players for defrauding the league’s health insurance benefit plan out of approximately $4 million, according to a criminal indictment unsealed Thursday.

UCLA said Thursday sportswear maker Under Armour Inc. is trying to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a “pretext” to escape its record-setting $280 million deal to outfit the Bruins sports teams just three years into the 15-year agreement.

Citing the expense of fighting “duplicative” legal cases, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday withdrew a lawsuit that asked a federal court to uphold a state law that limits transgender state employees’ access to restrooms and curbs anti-discrimination protections.

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