Hackney Publications (HP) has introduced that Kate Porter, a associate and sports activities lawyer at Vela Wooden, was interviewed final month on the Sports activities Legislation Skilled Podcast. The section could be heard right here.
Porter, who’s well-known for her prowess in worldwide sports activities regulation in addition to an skilled arbitrator, was interviewed on the annual convention of the Sports activities Attorneys Affiliation (SLA) in Baltimore.
“Kate is an excellent legal professional, who has a stellar status within the sports activities business,” mentioned Holt Hackney, the CEO of Hackney Publications. “She additionally has been an unimaginable function mannequin for younger feminine attorneys pursuing a profession in sports activities regulation.”
About Kate Porter
Kate Porter is a associate at Vela Wooden. She focuses her follow within the areas of sports activities regulation, different dispute decision and industrial disputes together with in arbitration earlier than the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”). Kate routinely counsels sports activities organizations on the interpretation and utility of league and worldwide federation guidelines and laws. Kate additionally serves as a member of the Investigatory Physique of the Aquatics Integrity Unit of World Aquatics and is an arbitrator earlier than the European Handball Court docket of Arbitration. Kate is a Texas Bar Basis Fellow, an honor granted to 1/3 of 1% of Texas attorneys.
Along with her sports activities follow, Kate additionally represents industrial shoppers in all phases of enterprise disputes, together with pre-dispute counseling, mediation, and arbitration. Kate has efficiently represented shoppers in advanced enterprise disputes earlier than the American Arbitration Affiliation (AAA) and JAMS.
Previous to becoming a member of Vela Wooden, Kate spent practically a dozen years as an legal professional at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York the place she represented shoppers in sports activities associated disputes. Throughout her time at Skadden, Kate additionally served as clerk and advert hoc clerk to arbitration panels in sports-related arbitrations earlier than CAS, beneath each the abnormal and attraction arbitration procedures. Her work on CAS issues contains disputes regarding the worldwide switch of gamers, the interpretation and utility of a global federation’s guidelines, and anti-doping issues. Kate additionally has represented massive firms in worldwide arbitrations earlier than the Worldwide Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Worldwide Centre for Dispute Decision (ICDR), and Worldwide Centre for Settlement of Funding Disputes (ICSID).
Kate has obtained a number of recognitions from WhosWhoLegal (WWL). She’s been named a Sports activities World Chief in 2021 & 2022, a USA Sports activities Thought Chief in 2023, and a Sports activities & Gaming Thought Chief in 2022 – 2024 (the one Texas lawyer on this record!).
Exterior of Vela Wooden, Kate is a member of the Board of Administrators of the Dallas Cup, one of the vital distinguished youth soccer tournaments in america. Kate can also be a member of the Editorial Board, North America Panel of LawInSport, a member of Girls In Sports activities Legislation (WISLaw), the co-chair of the Worldwide Bar Affiliation’s Sports activities Arbitration Group, the co-chair of the ABA Discussion board on the Leisure and Sports activities Industries’ Sports activities division, and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Jeffrey S. Moorad Heart for the Research of Sports activities Legislation. She additionally steadily speaks on sports activities law-related issues and at the moment teaches a module to college students on the Swiss Faculty of Enterprise and Administration’s MBA in Worldwide Sports activities Legislation.
