Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and the legal arena where it all collides. In this week’s edition of The Rainmaker, I discuss it all with Jeff Kessler, the superstar attorney at the center of the action. Plus the trials and tribulations of Shohei Ohtani, Merrick Garland, the UFC, Donald Trump, FIFA, Stephen Ross, Andy Warhol, Sam Bankman-Fried, and many more.
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Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.
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Welcome back to The Rainmaker, a private email about money, power, fame, and the legal arena where it all collides.
I will sadly admit that my chances of winning Puck’s March Madness pool this year are now slim to none. I’ve come to terms with this unfortunate reality (thank you, Kentucky), but despite the sting of disappointment, I’m not taking college basketball for granted. There is, after all, a multibillion-dollar trial on the horizon, which could finally force the NCAA to address the issue of whether athletes should be paid for their televised performances.
In this week’s edition of The Rainmaker, I discuss it all with Jeff Kessler, the superstar attorney at the center of the action. Plus the trials and tribulations of Shohei Ohtani, Merrick Garland, the UFC, Donald Trump, FIFA, Stephen Ross, Andy Warhol, Sam Bankman-Fried, and many more. (Still getting this email forwarded from a friend? Cut it out. Subscribe here.)
Let’s get started…
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- Ohtani’s legal muscle: No one can convince me that Shohei Ohtani isn’t a huge risk-taker, no matter what details now surface in the unfolding gambling scandal over the Dodgers star wiring $4.5 million to a California bookmaker. What makes me so confident? Well, when Ohtani...
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The Man Who Broke the NCAA
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Mega litigator Jeffrey Kessler opens up about smashing the college sports cartel, the reality of “pay for play,” and the $10 billion antitrust case that could change everything.
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Three years ago, Jeffrey Kessler, the superstar Winston & Strawn attorney, celebrated a resounding victory over the NCAA at the Supreme Court. In Alston v. NCAA, with a unanimous 9-0 vote, the justices decreed that the overseers of college sports are not immune from antitrust laws—and that the supposed “amateurism” of the players doesn’t justify restrictions on compensating them appropriately. It’s hard to understate the impact of this groundbreaking ruling, which produced a deluge of subsequent litigation, a wave that Kessler is currently riding with three significant cases—Hubbard, Carter, and House. This litigation could also potentially dismantle the NCAA’s age-old business model and funnel billions of dollars into the hands of...
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