Co-Presenter, “March NIL Madness: Students, Athletes, Employees, Hired Talent,” Webinar, University of Richmond School of Law, April 10, 2025
Quoted, "In Its Latest Public Filings, Liberty U. Blasts the President Who Turned It Into a Billion-Dollar Behemoth,” by The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 29, 2022
Presenter, “Continuing the Fight to Ensure Equality and Social Justice: Name, Image and Likeness in Sports,” Webinar, Old Dominion Bar Association, February 2, 2022
Speaker, HOOS TALKIN, 910 AM/105.1 FM The FAN, WRNL, January 24, 2022
Co-Presenter, “Play through: COVID-related challenges for the golf industry,” Webinar, Virginia State Golf Association, May 4, 2020
Quoted, "Longtime LeClairRyan attorney to lead Baltimore firm’s new Richmond office," Richmond BizSense, July 30, 2018
Mentioned, "Revamped Cross Bros. market set to relaunch," Richmond BizSense, May 7, 2018
Quoted, "Developer files counterclaim in alley scrap," Richmond BizSense, May 11, 2017
Quoted, "Developers’ beef over alleyway spills into court," Richmond BizSense, March 27, 2017
Quoted, "Kickers look to take over City Stadium; $20M in upgrades planned," Richmond BizSense, November 17, 2016
“Professional Sports: Protecting from the Peril” CPE presentation hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, June 29, 2016
Quoted, “Deflategate Judges Seem to Buy into the NFL’s Smear Campaign Against Tom Brady,” Forbes, March 4, 2016
Quoted, “The NFL Faces Legal Obstacle In Its Peyton Manning HGH Investigation,” Forbes, January 27, 2016
Quoted, "Financial firm’s bankrupt shell settles two lawsuits," Richmond BizSense, October 20, 2015
“Briefs on Recent Cases of Interest to Local Government Attorneys”, Local Government of Attorneys of Virginia Fall 2015 Conference at The Hotel Roanoke, October 15, 2015
Quoted, “Roger Goodell’s Power May Not Take A Hit After Deflategate Ruling,” Forbes, September 3, 2015
Quoted, “The Deflategate Verdict is a Victory for Common Sense,” Boston Magazine, September 3, 2015
Quoted, “A Deflategate Settlement Wouldn’t Benefit Tom Brady or the NFL,” Boston Magazine, August 20, 2015
Quoted, "Years later, lawsuits and debt still haunt investment firm deal," Richmond BizSense, April 27, 2015
Quoted, “Student or Employee?” Virginia Business, June 28, 2014
Mentioned, "Debt dispute hits shell of former downtown firm," Richmond BizSense, May 21, 2014
Mentioned, "Trolley dispute rerouted to courthouse," Richmond BizSense, February 19, 2013
Quoted, “Roseland hopes solution lies in sub-division,” Richmond BizSense, February 4, 2013
Mentioned, "How a relationship went off the rails," Richmond BizSense, November 8, 2012
Mentioned, "Former NBA player sued in Richmond," Richmond BizSense, August 30, 2012
“Risk Management for Athlete Safety and To Protect Facilities from Spectator Lawsuits,” Sports Litigation Alert, July 15, 2012
Quoted, “Dominion Club to press ahead,” Richmond-Times Dispatch, December 8, 2011
Quoted, “Dominion is almost out of the sand trap,” Richmond BizSense, December 7, 2011
Quoted, “Dominion Club plan to reorganize in limbo,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 11, 2011
Quoted, “County banks on city for reservoir land,” Tidewater Review, March 26, 2008
ARTICLES
June 9, 2025
On Friday, June 6, 2025, US District Judge Claudia Wilken of the United States District Court, Northern District of California, Oakland Division, finally approved the $2.8 billion settlement agreement arising from Case No. 4:20-cv-03919-CW In re: College Athlete NIL Litigation (“Settlement Agreement”), a class action lawsuit against the NCAA and the Power Five Conferences challenging their rules restricting payments to student-athletes, including payments related to student-athletes names, images, and likenesses (NIL) for commercial purposes. The Settlement Agreement will reshape college sports by allowing universities to pay student-athletes directly starting July 1, 2025, effectively ending the NCAA’s longstanding argument that student-athletes are amateurs and should, therefore, not be paid.
August 3, 2023
Non-compete clauses impact approximately one in five American employees or 30 million people. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently proposed a ban on non-compete clauses in employment agreements. On January 11, 2023, Whiteford published an
Alert on this proposal, but here’s an update about what you need to know regarding the ban and reports of recent FTC action to enforce these restrictions.
July 10, 2023
Companies are now subject to jurisdiction in places that do not have a significant relationship to the dispute.
The Century-old Supreme Court case, Pennsylvania Fire Insurance v. Gold Issue Mining, established the “consent in registration” principle that states can exercise jurisdiction over corporations not headquartered or incorporated in the state as long as they register to do business there. On June 27, 2023, in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern, the Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania state trial court could exercise personal jurisdiction over a non-Pennsylvania company in a suit arising out of non-Pennsylvania conduct due to this consent. Companies registered to do business in a state can now be sued in that state even when the state has little or no connection to the case.
January 5, 2023
On December 15, 2022, The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) handed down a finding of merit in Case 31-CA-290326 brought by the National College Players Association (“NCPA”) on behalf of men’s and women’s basketball and football players that charged the University of Southern California (“USC”), the PAC-12 Conference (“PAC-12”) and the National Collegiate Athletics Association (“NCAA”) with an unfair labor practice, alleging they had systematically misclassified players as “student-athlete” nonemployees instead of employees to prevent the athletes from realizing their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
April 27, 2020
COVID-19’s widespread health and economic crisis is tailor made for class action litigation. We’re already seeing numerous class actions filed only two months after widely dispersed disease was first seen around the U.S. Not only are class actions proliferating, but they include subjects which vary widely from the typical consumer and shareholder matters we typically see.
July 30, 2018
On July 30, leading Richmond-area business publication BizSense led with a story about the move to Whiteford, Taylor & Preston by prominent Richmond litigators Vernon Inge and Corey Booker: “A veteran local lawyer says he’s in search of the ‘A-team’ of area attorneys as he begins to build a large regional law firm’s first Richmond office.”
