National Basketball Players Association Names New General Counsel
The National Basketball Association players association has hired Gary Kohlman as its new general counsel, according to a report in The New York Times.
Kohlman was lead trial lawyer at the Washington firm Bredhoff & Kaiser, where he represented the Service Employees International Union and the United Steelworkers.
In February, he argued in front of the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of Northwestern’s scholarship football players, who sought the right to form a union, The Times reported. The N.L.R.B.’s regional director ruled in favor of the players. Kohlman also worked with the Major League Baseball players union after the 1994 strike.
