The National Football League won two high-profile legal battles against superstar players in 2016, in both cases winning on appeal after a federal district court judge ruled against them. The legal considerations that proved decisive in the Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson cases were not particularly complicated or new, and without celebrity and salient secondary...Read More

One challenge of trial work is trying to anticipate beforehand every issue that might arise once the parties are in the courtroom. Discovery greatly reduces the incidence of surprises of fact, but it can’t protect against surprises of law — foreseeable legal arguments that lurk undetected, camouflaged by the obvious issues absorbing everyone’s attention, until they come leaping from hiding...Read More