Teams Find Safety in Numbers on Legal Staff
Irwin Kishner and Dan Etna spoke to SportsBusiness Journal about several factors driving the growth of sports teams' legal staffs, including business deals that are increasing in size and complexity, and the diversity of legal expertise required to manage a team's day-to-day business. "You're always going to have the need for outside expertise," Kishner said. "For issues that are not run of the mill, you can't have that level of expertise in-house."