Prominent Sports Law Attorney Dropped from Suit
One of collegiate athletics’ most prominent attorneys, Richard Hilliard, has been dropped from the $60 million lawsuit filed by former University of Alabama assistant football coaches Ronnie Cottrell and Ivy Williams.
The Birmingham News reported that as a condition of dropping Hilliard as a defendant, the Kansas City attorney has agreed to provide a deposition for the plaintiffs, who allege that they were scapegoats when the NCAA investigated and discovered rule violations at the unive