Hackney Publications announced today a client referral program, leveraging 25 years of editing and publishing experience in the sports law field to pair potential legal clients with sports lawyers.
Those “friends of Hackney Publications,” defined as subscribers and sponsors, will receive notification when a potential legal client reaches out through Sportslawexpert.com (https://sportslawexpert.com/seeking-a-sports-lawyer/) as well as various other channels.
“Informally, we have referred clients to sports lawyers for more than a decade,” said Holt Hackney, founder and CEO of HP. “We are excited to make this program a free benefit to friends of Hackney Publications.”
Hackney added that the idea came about because of the sudden surge in inquiries the company has received. Among those inquiries in recent weeks:
- “Hello, we are looking for an attorney to help My Daughter who is at a division one School was approved for one year of medical redshirting, but declined for the second year by the NCAA. … Not sure if we have a case but we need to try to get her eligibility back and we are looking for an attorney to help us.
- “I read the article entitled “State Supreme Court Overrules Lower Court’s Decision; High School Student’s Athlete’s Firth Year of Eligibility Denied” in January/February 2023 publication and was hoping my family could obtain guidance on a law firm or attorney who might be able to assist in overturning a hardship denial of 5th year eligibility.”
Hackney noted that “some of these leads have emerged because of the growth in Legal Issues in High School Athletics (LIHSA), one of our 25 sports law publications. Five state associations, for example, have taken subscriptions to LIHSA on behalf of their members in recent years, pushing our subscription base to more than 20,000.”
HP plans to highlight the opportunity to its readers of LIHSA and other publications, connecting those seeking legal representation from qualified counsel.
About Hackney Publications Hackney Publications (www.hackneypublications.com) is the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals. The company was founded by journalist Holt Hackney. Hackney began his career as a sportswriter, before taking on the then-nascent sports business beat at Financial World Magazine in the late 1980s. A few years later, Hackney started writing about the law, managing five legal newsletters for LRP Publications. In 1999, he founded Hackney Publications. Today, Hackney publishes or co-publishes 25 sports law periodicals, including Sports Litigation Alert (www.sportslitigationalert.com), which offers a searchable archive of more than 5,000 case summaries and articles. In
