Sports Lawyer Bill Bock Recognized with Honor

Sports law attorney Bill Bock, of Kroger Gardis & Regas, has been named to the 2026 Best Lawyers in America and Ones to Watch, a prestigious honor that reflects his “dedication to excellence, deep expertise, and commitment to providing outstanding legal services to (the firm’s) clients.”

Bock is an experienced litigator with substantial sports law and Title IX experience and background in international law enforcement anti-doping and drug trafficking investigations. He was the General Counsel of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) during 2007-2020 where he worked closely with U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 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 a strong interest in business and sports ethics, sports drug testing, athletic eligibility issues and protecting the rights of female athletes to fair competition and safe spaces in women’s sports, as well as constitutional and human rights, the separation of powers and how the law protects individual liberty and a free society.

He 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.