{"id":154148,"date":"2026-06-09T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/09\/sorry-associates-but-those-knicks-seats-were-always-going-to-clients\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:32:13","slug":"sorry-associates-but-those-knicks-seats-were-always-going-to-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/09\/sorry-associates-but-those-knicks-seats-were-always-going-to-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Associates, But Those Knicks Seats Were Always Going To Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

These kinds of tickets go to platinum A-plus clients. The vast majority of people (lawyers) faced with this decision give to clients because you get such goodwill with this kind of thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Irwin Kishner<\/a>, co-chair of Herrick Feinstein\u2019s sports law and corporate department, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning how Biglaw firms handled coveted tickets to last night\u2019s Knicks game. Gibson Dunn scored courtside seats after winning an auction benefiting the Garden of Dreams Foundation.\u00a0As for Kishner? He watched the game from home.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Sorry, Associates, But Those Knicks Seats Were Always Going To Clients<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

These kinds of tickets go to platinum A-plus clients. The vast majority of people (lawyers) faced with this decision give to clients because you get such goodwill with this kind of thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0Irwin Kishner<\/a>, co-chair of Herrick Feinstein\u2019s sports law and corporate department, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, concerning how Biglaw firms handled coveted tickets to last night\u2019s Knicks game. Gibson Dunn scored courtside seats after winning an auction benefiting the Garden of Dreams Foundation.\u00a0As for Kishner? He watched the game from home.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Sorry, Associates, But Those Knicks Seats Were Always Going To Clients<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. These kinds of tickets go to platinum A-plus clients. The vast majority of people (lawyers) faced with this decision give to clients because you get such goodwill with this kind of thing. \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Irwin Kishner, co-chair of Herrick Feinstein\u2019s sports law and corporate department, in comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154149,"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-154148","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\/2026\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-VwkGK6.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148","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=154148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}