Name William Briggs | ||
William B. Briggs (born 1954) of Manhattan and Ithaca, New York, is a subject matter expert in sports and entertainment law. He is Vice President for Arbitration and Litigation for the National Football League (NFL), an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School, and the Thomas A. O’ Boyle Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Science at Cornell University in 1976, his Master of Arts at George Washington University in 1978, and his Juris Doctor at Georgetown University Law Center in 1982.
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Expertise
Briggs’ expertise includes the application of law and economics to sports and entertainment markets. Beginning as a professional athlete’s labor advocate in the late 1970s and 1980s, he has transition to the role of counselor of the team owners. His focus includes institutional analysis across multi-competition sectors of the American economy, with a specific focus on the National Football League and the relationship between professional and amateur athletics. In 1983, counselor Briggs was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia. He was staff counsel for the National Football Players Association/Federation of Professional Athletes through 1988, after which he engaged in representation of professional athletes in arbitration hearings from 1988 to 1994. He began his teaching career as an Adjunct Professor, University of Toledo College of Law and Drake College of Law in 1988. He served as a Visiting Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University from 1989 to 1994.
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Associations
Briggs joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Cornell University, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.
He is also an honorary member of Quill and Dagger at Cornell University.