Attorney William Bock Visits with the Sports Law Expert Podcast in Exclusive Interview
Sports lawyer William “Bill” Bock III, a partner at Kroger, Gardis & Regas, LLP, recently joined Sports Litigation Alert Editor Holt Hackney as a guest on the Sports Law Expert Podcast.
The segment, which was made available today, can be heard here – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-visit-with-sports-lawyer-william-bock-of/id1740807429?i=1000704345799.
“Bill is an icon in the sports industry, known for his extensive work in amateur athletics and his tireless service with the Sports Lawyers Association,” said Hackney. “We’re excited to share his insights on the industry and where it is headed.”
Specifically, Bock has a substantial background in international law enforcement anti-doping and drug trafficking investigations. To that end, he was the General Counsel of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency during 2007-2020 where he worked closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and international law enforcement and anti-doping officials.
Bock has represented clients in high-profile investigations, litigation and arbitration throughout the United States and globally. He has represented athletes, sports organizations, Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and those impacted by governmental or organizational overreach.
Bock has filed amicus briefs in cases involving Title IX and/or women’s rights in sport before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals and has handled cases as lead counsel in state and federal court seeking to protect the women’s category of sport. Recently, Bock filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Georgia Tech University in which he represents eighteen current and former female student-athletes challenging the NCAA’s and Georgia Tech’s failure to protect women’s rights in Riley Gaines, et al. v. NCAA, et al. Bock is also lead counsel in Estabrook et al. v. The Ivy League, et al. in a separate Title IX case against the Ivy League, the NCAA, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Bock has appeared before panels of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and/or the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, in more than seventy-five (75+) sports eligibility disputes.
Bock received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1989 and clerked for then U.S. District Judge, John Daniel Tinder, during 1990-1992.
For more on his background, visit https://kgrlaw.com/professionals/william-bock-iii/
About Hackney Publications
Hackney Publications (www.hackneypublications.com) is the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals. The company was founded by journalist Holt Hackney. Hackney began his career as a sportswriter, before taking on the then-nascent sports business beat at Financial World Magazine in the late 1980s. A few years later, Hackney started writing about the law, managing five legal newsletters for LRP Publications. In 1999, he founded Hackney Publications. Today, Hackney publishes or co-publishes 25 sports law periodicals, including Sports Litigation Alert (www.sportslitigationalert.com).
The Alert, which publishes 24 times a year, offers subscribers a searchable archive of more than 5,000 case summaries and articles, the largest sports law-specific archive in the world. Not surprisingly, the Alert is used in more than 100 sports law classrooms any given semester, entraining students destined for a career in the sports industry, as well as the next generation of sports lawyers.