Bradford Edwards LLP recently worked to publicize the now passed registration deadline (January 31, 2025) for DI men’s basketball and football athletes who played between 2016 and 2024 to claim a portion of the roughly $2.8 billion dollar proposed settlements negotiated with the NCAA over antitrust claims, including name, image and likeness, or NIL. The case is now pending in …
Black DI College Athletes Must Submit Claims for Proposed $2.8B NIL Settlement by 1/31/25
Black athletes have been essential in building Division I basketball and football into a multi-billion-dollar industry. The NCAA is on the brink of settling two cases for approximately $2.8 billion in connection with certain antitrust claims involving name, image, and likeness. Due to limited advertising specifically to Black audiences, the settlement threatens to leave some deserving Black athletes with nothing. …
Bradford Edwards NIL client, Sam Lipkin signs with the Arizona Coyotes
Bradford Edwards LLP congratulates Name Image and Likeness client, Sam Lipkin, on signing his first National Hockey League contract.
Patrick A. Bradford Elected a Fellow of The Amercian Bar Foundation
Bradford Edwards is pleased to announce that Patrick A. Bradford has been elected a Fellow of The American Bar Foundation. Membership in the American Bar Foundation (ABF) Fellows is restricted to only 1% of attorneys licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Nominees are recommended by their colleagues and chosen by the ABF Board.
Partner John K. Osei-Tutu speaks on Podcast: The Minority League
Bradford Edwards LLP partner John Osei-Tutu recently appeared on The Minority League podcast with professional hockey player Marc Johnstone to discuss their respective journeys in the sport and insights on navigating the hockey world.
Partner John Osei-Tutu speaks to the Gazette about long-time client’s ascension to the NHL
Bradford Edwards partner, John K. Osei-Tutu, recently spoke to the Post Gazette about the ascension of long-time client, Marc Johnstone, to the National Hockey League.
Bradford Edwards Represents Wesley Financial Group LLC In Ongoing Litigation Involving Vacation Property Operator
Bradford Edwards represents Wesley Financial Group LLC in ongoing litigation involving the largest privately held timeshare vacation ownership company.
Bradford Edwards Ranked by Chambers USA: Regional Spotlight for Dispute Resolution
Bradford Edwards is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as a Regional Spotlight firm in New York 2024 Guide by Chambers and Partners for Dispute Resolution.
The Robinson-Patman Act: Everyone Old Is New Again
Partner Patrick A. Bradford is featured in the January 2023 CLI Antitrust Chronicle discussing the Biden administration’s DOJ and FTC appointees signaling of “intent to brush the dust off of the Robinson-Patman Act and renew enforcement of unfair as opposed to inefficient practices.”, and the “potential Robinson-Patman Act enforcement action against certain e-commerce giants of today, such as Amazon and Walmart, …
Would Rules Have Cured FTX’s ‘Internal Controls Wasteland’?
Partner Denver Edwards is quoted in Law360 discussing the role regulations have played in FTX’s collapse. Edwards, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney, discusses how the collapse of FTX is an example of government inaction as “Regulators cling to outmoded frameworks while the digital asset market grows unchecked.”
