Covington Named Law360 Sports and Betting Group Of The Year

Covington Named Law360 Sports and Betting Group Of The Year

February 20, 2024, Law360

Law360 named Covington a Sports and Betting Practice Group of the Year, and the accompanying profile included commentary from Peter Zern and Jeremy Spector, co-chairs of the firm’s Sports Industry Group, about Covington’s expertise in the sports and betting space.

With more than 80 attorneys dedicated to the business of Sports, Covington’s depth of expertise and experience allows the firm to handle a broad scope of client matters. Peter explains, “One of the things that we're especially proud of is the fact that we really do cover the full gamut of the industry. We're one of the few firms that have been in that space for over 50 years at this point, with a truly dedicated industry-facing practice group that really covers all issues that come in front of any of our sports clients.”

Jeremy also told Law360, “What's been so exciting about the work that we've been fortunate to do is that it has included both the core type of sports work that we've done for decades: corporate work, litigation and investigations, tax work. But it's also really branched out into all of these other practice areas that are touching the sports industry now. There's really no such thing as sports law anymore. It's now sports clients and sports industry participants having to face legal issues in gambling law and economic sanctions and privacy and consumer protection, and employment.”

Touting what makes Covington’s practice unique, Jeremy adds: “What's been fun for the last year for us is to take all of those different legal practice areas and — in a very coordinated, multidisciplinary, business-oriented way, instead of just a legal-oriented way — apply those to the questions our clients are bringing to us.”