League Management, Labor Make Nice at SLA Conference
By Jarett L. Warner
The sparks were negligible. The sarcasm was on hiatus. This was not your typical last day of the Sports Lawyers Association meeting. On this day, the lead counsel for the professional sports leagues and their counterparts on the players’ side made nice as they trumpeted the success of the league and the modest amount of ongoing litigation confronting them.
The morning began with Jeffrey Pash, Executive Vice-President and League Counsel for the NFL, noting that