Football’s Headache: The Concussion Litigation

By Cal R. Burnton, ESQ   Organized football has a problem. Concussion lawsuits are slowly advancing at all levels of play—professional, collegiate, and high school. Thousands of former players are joining the ranks of litigants. The target defendants have for the most part not yet had to open their files and subject their documents and emails to scrutiny, nor have their key employees had to give testimony under oath. The stakes are high—potentially billions of dollars are at risk. The p