Sports Law

David Slutsker has over 28 years of experience representing professional athletes.  He is an experienced deal negotiator, career advisor and litigator with decades of experience handling the complex career and legal issues that affect highly successful professional athletes.

 
Mr. Slutsker is committed to personalized legal services for professional athletes with an emphasis on inter-related career counseling. This includes legal counseling in regard to an athlete and their family’s entire tax, business and legal needs. The thought of every professional athlete at certain times of their career centers on who will negotiate a contract with team management and what are the financial and tax repercussions of the money derived from the contract. There are always a set of complex and challenging problems and decisions which must be made and for which legal counsel should be provided. Mr. Slutsker understands that top rate representation means special attention which extends beyond contract negotiation and therefore he offers the professional athlete a wide variety of  services which deal with the athlete’s life and financial security during and after their career.

Some of the services that Mr. Slutsker provides can be described in the following manner:

a. Legal advice and representation with respect to the negotiation of all contracts including management and promotional agreements.
b. Negotiation of endorsement, marketing and licensing deals
c. Negotiation and review of any and all contracts regarding athlete's career and enforcement of rights under the various Collective Bargaining Agreements.
d. Civil litigation matters including arbitration and mediation.
e.  Negotiate, Draft, Review and enforcement of contracts pertaining to the sale of sports memorabilia and cards.
f. Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Memorabilia and claims with regard to sports related memorabilia.
Sports Law