
Sarah L. Viebrock
Associate
Sarah focuses her practice on sports, antitrust, and complex commercial litigation matters. She regularly counsels and represents sports industry clients in arbitrations and litigations involving contract, intellectual property licensing, and antitrust issues. As a former federal law clerk, Sarah leverages her inside understanding of the judicial process to bring creativity and effective solutions to her cases.
Key Matters
- House v. NCAA: helped secure landmark $2.75 billion dollar back-pay damages settlement for hundreds of thousands of current and former college athletes that resolved three pending lawsuits challenging the NCAA’s limits on compensation and benefits that athletes can receive and opened the door for billions more in revenue sharing payments that will be shared with athletes going forward.
- Won Important Dismissal of Sherman Act Claims Against Actors’ Equity on Statutory Labor Exemption Grounds.
- North American Soccer League v. United States Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer: Represents the North American Soccer League in a federal antitrust lawsuit against United States Soccer Federation’s and Major League Soccer.
- Sports licensing disputes: represents players associations and licensing agents in disputes over intellectual property licensing agreements.
- Secured victory on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit in a defamation case filed against a political organization.