Happy Holidays from our Bailey & Glasser, LLP family to yours.
As we celebrate the holiday season, we look back upon 2023 with gratitude and look forward to a new year full of happiness, joy, and health for you, your families, and your communities. We are deeply grateful to everyone for being part of our lives, and we look forward to being of service in 2024 and beyond.
Happy Holidays from our Bailey & Glasser, LLP family to yours.
As we celebrate the holiday season, we look back upon 2023 with gratitude and look forward to a new year full of happiness, joy, and health for you, your families, and your communities. We are deeply grateful to everyone for being part of our lives, and we look forward to being of service in 2024 and beyond.
Please enjoy a special holiday message from Bailey Glasser co-founder Ben Bailey here.
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Ms. Magazine profiles our recent Title IX lawsuit against the University of Oregon on behalf of 32 women student-athletes from the women’s varsity beach volleyball and women’s club rowing teams. “I love the University of Oregon, but this hurtful, outrageous sex discrimination has to stop,” said Ashley Schroeder, student-athlete and lead plaintiff of the December 1, 2023 lawsuit against Oregon alleging sex discrimination in athletic participation opportunities, financial aid, and benefits and publicity.
Ms. Magazine profiles our recent Title IX lawsuit against the University of Oregon on behalf of 32 women student-athletes from the women’s varsity beach volleyball and women’s club rowing teams. “I love the University of Oregon, but this hurtful, outrageous sex discrimination has to stop,” said Ashley Schroeder, student-athlete and lead plaintiff of the December 1, 2023 lawsuit against Oregon alleging sex discrimination in athletic participation opportunities, financial aid, and benefits and publicity.
“These young women did not go to school imagining they would sue their university, but they are committed to fighting for what is right,” said Bailey Glasser partner Lori Bullock.
“Title IX has been the law for more than 50 years. Oregon needs to comply with it, now,” said Arthur Bryant, Bailey Glasser’s Title IX team leader. “The history of Title IX has shown: If women want equality, they need to fight for it. So that’s what the women at Oregon are doing.”
Ms. Magazine details the historical nature of this lawsuit as it is the first ever to seek damages connected to NIL discrimination against women. Specifically, the women are suing for the lack of “support for opportunities to receive payments for use of their names, images and likenesses,” which Ms. Magazine notes could have significant implications for the finances of college athletics and the future of Title IX.
The plaintiffs are represented by BG’s Arthur Bryant, Lori Bullock, Cary Joshi, Joshua Hammack, Savanna Jones and Laura Babiak, along with local counsel Jennifer Middleton of Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton in Eugene, OR.
Read the full article here.
Learn more about the lawsuit here.
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Join Bailey Glasser Partner Patrick Muench December 12, 2023, at 1pm EST for a virtual webinar discussion on ERISA litigation involving Employee Stock Ownership Plans (“ESOPs”) hosted by the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. This event will include a review of some common areas of dispute in ESOP cases and a summary of trends and recent court decisions.
Join Bailey Glasser Partner Patrick Muench December 12, 2023, at 1pm EST for a virtual webinar discussion on ERISA litigation involving Employee Stock Ownership Plans (“ESOPs”) hosted by the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. This event will include a review of some common areas of dispute in ESOP cases and a summary of trends and recent court decisions.
Patrick litigates complex commercial cases with emphasis on ERISA, antitrust, and oil and gas disputes. He handles all aspects of these matters from discovery through trial. His experience includes winning a $30 million trial judgment in Brundle v. Wilmington Trust, a case involving breaches of duty by a trustee and complex valuations in an ESOP transaction. Learn more about Patrick Muench here.
To register and learn about CLE credits for this event, visit this link.
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Bailey Glasser Named to “Best Law Firms in America” List
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Best Law Firms process, where we’ve been recognized in four National and 23 Metropolitan rankings. Our National rankings recognize our work in Litigation-ERISA, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital Markets Law.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Best Law Firms process, where we’ve been recognized in four National and 23 Metropolitan rankings. Our National rankings recognize our work in Litigation-ERISA, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital Markets Law.
Our Metro rankings include recognition for our work in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, Litigation-Banking & Finance, Litigation-Bankruptcy, Product Liability-Plaintiffs, Civil Rights, and many more. For a full list of our rankings, please visit here.
For nearly 25 years, our firm has worked tenaciously on behalf of our clients, and we never take your good words for granted. Thank you for recognizing our work for another year.
Eugene, OR: Thirty-two female student-athletes filed a detailed sex discrimination class action over 100 pages long against the University of Oregon today for depriving women of equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities to participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The case, filed by twenty-six women’s varsity beach volleyball team members and six women’s club rowing team members in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon, seeks “to hold Oregon accountable for discriminating against all of its female student-athletes and potential student-athletes, make Oregon pay damages to the women it has deprived and is depriving of equal treatment and equal athletic financial aid, and stop Oregon from violating Title IX in the future.”
Eugene, OR: Thirty-two female student-athletes filed a detailed sex discrimination class action over 100 pages long against the University of Oregon today for depriving women of equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities to participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The case, filed by twenty-six women’s varsity beach volleyball team members and six women’s club rowing team members in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon, seeks “to hold Oregon accountable for discriminating against all of its female student-athletes and potential student-athletes, make Oregon pay damages to the women it has deprived and is depriving of equal treatment and equal athletic financial aid, and stop Oregon from violating Title IX in the future.”
Title IX, a federal civil rights law, prohibits sex discrimination by the University of Oregon and all educational institutions that receive federal funds. The women’s beach volleyball team members “aim to hold Oregon accountable for depriving them and all varsity female student-athletes of equal treatment and equal athletic financial aid in violation of Title IX.” The women’s club rowing team members “seek to hold Oregon accountable for depriving them and all present and future female students at Oregon of equal opportunities to participate in varsity athletics.”
“Title IX has been the law for more than fifty years. Oregon needs to comply with it, now,” said BG partner Arthur H. Bryant, lead counsel for the women. “Three months ago, The Oregonian exposed the school’s blatant sex discrimination in a front-page investigative report: “Oregon Ducks beach volleyball players detail disparate treatment that experts say could violate Title IX.” But the school refuses to change its ways or even admit there is a problem. It has taught its women athletes what the history of Title IX has shown: If women want equality, they need to fight for it. So that’s what the women at Oregon are doing.”
“We are proud to represent these courageous women who have decided to stand up and fight for the equality Title IX requires and against the sex discrimination that Title IX prohibits,” said BG lead co-counsel Lori Bullock in Des Moines, Iowa. “These young women did not go to school imagining they would sue their university, but they are committed to fighting for what is right.”
Other members of the BG team on this case are partners Joshua Hammack and Cary Joshi, and associates Laura Babiak and Savanna Jones.
