Ex-Goldman Lawyer Is Major League Pickleball’s General Counsel

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Robinhood Markets Inc. in-house lawyer Janet Broeckel has gone to work for Major League Pickleball, a league seeking to capitalize on the sport’s growing popularity.

Broeckel in her new general counsel position reunites with Brian Levine, a former Goldman banker and senior pickleball player who became the league’s interim chief executive in December.

Pickleball is a two-on-two paddle sport that’s been likened to a hybrid of badminton, Ping Pong, and tennis. The sport’s roots reportedly began in the Pacific Northwest, where former Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), who worked at K&L Gates, had ...