SPORTS LAW PRACTICE

LATSHA DAVIS YOHE & MCKENNA, P.C. counsels clients in the sports industry, providing guidance in their careers and business decisions. We negotiate, draft, and review royalty and personal services agreements. Our sports law practice is directed by Kevin M. McKenna, a shareholder and a former college basketball player for the Villanova Wildcats, who is the author of numerous articles that include: Courts Leave Legislators to Decide the Fate of the NCAA in Providing Due Process, 2 Seton Hall J. Sports 77 (1992); The Tarkanian Decision: The State of College Athletics is Everything But State Action, 40 DePaul L. Rev. 459 (1991); Age Limitations and the NCAA: Discrimination of Equating Competition?, 31 St. Louis U. L. J. 370 (1987); and A Proposition with a Powerful Punch: The Legality and Constitutionality of NCAA Proposition 48, 26 Duq. L. Rev. 43 (1987). Mr. McKenna has also co-authored, Friends in High Places: Is the NCAA’s System of Justice Fair? To Avoid the NCAA’s Wrath, Colleges Have Learned a Little Secret, Sport Magazine, June 1999; Drug Testing College Athletes: NCAA: Does Thy Cup Runneth Over?, 97 W. Va. L. Rev. 53 (1994); Policing Sports Agents: The First Four Years, 8 U. of Miami Ent. & Sports L. Rev 1 (1992); and Drug Testing in Sports, 92 Dick. L. Rev. (1988).

Mr. McKenna’s valuable combination of talents as an athlete and as a seasoned attorney provides him with a unique insight into an athlete’s needs and gives him access to a wealth of legal experience.