| Biography:
Howard Ganz is a co-chair of the Sports Law Group at Proskauer Rose, and the immediate past co-chair of the Firm’s Labor & Employment Law Department.
Howard represents and counsels clients with respect to a wide variety of labor and employment matters, such as discrimination, wrongful discharge, defamation, breach of contract, sexual harassment, discipline, and reductions in force. His litigation experience has run the gamut -- from single plaintiff lawsuits to major class actions -- in federal and state courts in New York and elsewhere. The clients Howard has represented include the National Broadcasting Company, Reader's Digest, Marubeni America Corporation, The Ford Foundation, AIG, Prudential, United Parcel Service, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association.
Howard has served as principal outside labor counsel for the NBA for over 20 years, advising the NBA in connection with collective bargaining negotiations between the League and the unions representing both players and referees, and he has assisted the Women’s National Basketball Association in the negotiation of its collective bargaining agreements with the union representing WNBA players.
Howard has also represented Major League Baseball in its collective bargaining negotiations with the Major League Baseball Players Association and in various matters involving the Major League umpires.
Howard is a graduate of Colgate University and Columbia Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review, spent two years as a law clerk for a federal district judge in New York before joining the Firm, and has lectured widely on sports law and employment law matters. He is a former Chair of the Sports Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and has been recognized in Chambers USA 2009, US Legal 500 2009, named as one of the “World’s Leading Labor and Employment Lawyers,” one of the “Ten Most Powerful Employment Attorneys in the United States” by Human Resource Executive/ Lawdragon, one of “The Best Lawyers in America,” one of “500 Leading Lawyers in America,” and as one of the “100 Best Lawyers in New York.”
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