{"id":137417,"date":"2025-11-22T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/22\/veteran-sports-law-attorneys-are-hitting-biglaw-compensation-home-runs-right-now\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:48:27","slug":"veteran-sports-law-attorneys-are-hitting-biglaw-compensation-home-runs-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/22\/veteran-sports-law-attorneys-are-hitting-biglaw-compensation-home-runs-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Sports Law Attorneys Are Hitting Biglaw Compensation Home Runs Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a few very desirable people with these practices, and they say they\u2019re getting a massive amount of calls right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Sabina Lippman, managing partner of legal recruiter CenterPeak, in comments given to the Sports Business Journal<\/a>, concerning the number of veteran sports deal lawyers\u00a0with connections to the Big Five sports leagues. Lippmann says the total number of these experienced attorneys may be \u201cas few as seven,\u201d and these trusted partners are commanding substantial salaries from Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Veteran Sports Law Attorneys Are Hitting Biglaw Compensation Home Runs Right Now<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a few very desirable people with these practices, and they say they\u2019re getting a massive amount of calls right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Sabina Lippman, managing partner of legal recruiter CenterPeak, in comments given to the Sports Business Journal<\/a>, concerning the number of veteran sports deal lawyers\u00a0with connections to the Big Five sports leagues. Lippmann says the total number of these experienced attorneys may be \u201cas few as seven,\u201d and these trusted partners are commanding substantial salaries from Biglaw firms.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Veteran Sports Law Attorneys Are Hitting Biglaw Compensation Home Runs Right Now<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There are a few very desirable people with these practices, and they say they\u2019re getting a massive amount of calls right now. \u2014 Sabina Lippman, managing partner of legal recruiter CenterPeak, in comments given to the Sports Business Journal, concerning the number of veteran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky-KipnJs.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}