Drew Washington
Associate
Admitted to practice only in California and New York
Drew is a litigation associate who has experience in sports, antitrust, and labor law.
Drew is a litigation associate who has experience in sports, antitrust, and labor law. Drew worked on the litigation team that represented the U.S. Women’s National Team in its gender discrimination/equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. She also works on matters for the NFL Players Association, one of which involved a successful Second Circuit appeal involving claims brought under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. While Drew was a summer associate in 2017, she published an article for the Daily Journal alongside Kathi Vidal, discussing the impact of the TC Heartland Supreme Court decision on patent litigation.
- The Legal 500 US, “Key Lawyer,” Sports Law, 2024
- “New Voices Under 30,” Sports Business Journal, September 2022
- “National Impact Cases of the Year,” Benchmark Litigation, March 2022
- Drew was part of the team recognized for their work in securing a U.S. Supreme Court victory in a unanimous decision in favor of college athletes in the NCAA scholarship antitrust class-action lawsuit.
- “New Voices Under 30,” Sports Business Journal
- “Impact Case,” Benchmark Litigation
- “Litigator of the Week,” The American Lawyer, Runner Up, February 2022
- Drew was among the team of lawyers named as runners-up for their representation of current and former members of the U.S. Women’s National Team in their landmark settlement of the equal pay portion of their lawsuit seeking to equalize pay and working conditions between the men's and women’s U.S. national soccer teams.
Drew maintains an active pro bono practice where she represented a USA Track & Field athlete who was seeking eligibility to run in the 2020 Olympic Games and a client in a Section 1983 action involving the use of excessive force by police. She was chosen to participate in Toyota’s 2024 Counsel in Motion Program.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education
Drew received her B.A., magna cum laude, from New York University in 2016. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law.
Admissions
- California
- New York
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