Gregg E. Clifton is a Principal within the Phoenix, Arizona, workplace of Jackson Lewis P.C. He’s Co-Chief of the Collegiate and Skilled Sports activities Apply Group and serves because the editor of the agency’s sports activities legislation weblog.
Mr. Clifton has intensive expertise in…
Gregg E. Clifton is a Principal within the Phoenix, Arizona, workplace of Jackson Lewis P.C. He’s Co-Chief of the Collegiate and Skilled Sports activities Apply Group and serves because the editor of the agency’s sports activities legislation weblog.
Mr. Clifton has intensive expertise within the collegiate {and professional} sports activities world. He has suggested quite a few skilled franchises on normal labor and employment points, together with Title III ADA regulatory compliance and wage and hour points. He serves as lead counsel for a number of Main League Baseball groups of their wage arbitration issues and has represented NCAA and NAIA collegiate purchasers concerning guidelines compliance, investigatory issues and in disciplinary hearings. As well as, he has dealt with Title IX investigations and compliance points for NCAA and NAIA member establishments. Mr. Clifton has additionally labored extensively within the space of agent regulation and enforcement in skilled and school sports activities and recurrently gives counsel on points regarding NCAA and NAIA amateurism points and athlete eligibility questions. He has additionally served as an skilled witness in issues involving sports activities brokers’ work and duties, in addition to athlete compensation points.
Previous to becoming a member of Jackson Lewis, he spent six years as Chief Working Officer and Vice President of Staff Sports activities for Gaylord Sports activities Administration. He additionally served as President of the Athlete and Leisure Division for famed sports activities lawyer Bob Woolf’s agency, Woolf Associates, in Boston.
Mr. Clifton started his profession as an Affiliate at Jackson Lewis the place he targeted his apply on conventional labor legislation. He continues to counsel purchasers within the areas of collective bargaining negotiations, illustration instances, arbitrations and Nationwide Labor Relations Board issues.
Mr. Clifton regularly serves as an skilled speaker to legislation faculties, together with Harvard College, Boston School, Hofstra College and Arizona State College, and bar associations concerning sports activities legislation points, together with agent regulation and wage arbitration. He’s additionally usually cited as an skilled supply in nationwide information media for his commentary and opinion on authorized points in sports activities.
