Fantasy Sports Uncertainty Brings Business to Gaming Lawyers

Oct. 26, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

What’s challenging for the companies operating fantasy sports sites may be beneficial to the lawyers who practice in the gaming space.

Federal and state regulators are reportedly investigating whether an employee of DraftKings Inc. made $350,000 by using the company’s internal information to play at rival FanDuel. Those questions led DraftKings to retain John Pappalardo at Greenberg Traurig LLP and FanDuel to hire Michael Mukasey at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP internally to investigate the conduct.

While an internal investigation by lawyers at Greenberg Traurig LLP found no evidence of wrongdoing by the employee, according to the report which the company ...

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