Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling that the federal ban on sports betting was unconstitutional, the NFL began exploring commercial relationships in the gambling space.

NFL in-house lawyer Doug Mishkin, who previously worked as senior vice president at Metric Gaming, said his experience positioned him well to play a leading legal role in supporting the league’s subsequent transactions in that domain.

“I was hopeful that the expertise I had gained while working in Las Vegas at Metric Gaming would be an important asset if, and when, things opened up” in the sports betting space, said Mishkin, who joined the NFL in 2016. “It certainly happened faster than I expected.”

Mishkin recently spoke with Legal Dive after the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner announced he had joined the firm as a partner in its global Sports & Entertainment Group.

First-time agreements

Mishkin said it was fulfilling to be part of a paradigm shift at the NFL, which as a league had not embraced commercial activities in the sports betting space prior to the overturning of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA).

As senior counsel, Mishkin played roles in handling the NFL’s first-ever casino sponsorship, daily fantasy sports sponsorship, official sports betting data and live video distribution deals, among other agreements.

For example, it was in early 2019 when the NFL announced that Caesars Entertainment was selected as its first official casino sponsor of the...

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