Brodkin and Einbinder were part of a team of in-house lawyers advising Fox Sports last year on its $6.8 billion deal with Turner Broadcasting System to televise MLB games through 2021. In August, Covington & Burling represented the league on its own eight-year, $5.6 billion broadcast rights deal with ESPN.
Despite worries about regional sports networks being potentially overvalued, for the time being they continue to remain all the rage. When Major League Baseball's New York Yankees sold a 49 percent stake in the YES Network for roughly $3 billion to News Corporation late last year, seven Am Law 200 firms were on hand to provide legal counsel, according to our previous reports.
