Sports Lawyer In Spotlight: Lindsay Brandon

Monday, 14 March 2022 Author: Manan Agrawal, Marcos Santillana, Angelina Sanchez

Welcome to LawInSport’s new series ‘Sports Lawyer in the Spotlight’, where we go behind the scenes with the leading sports lawyers around the world to get to know a little more about them and highlight their contributions to the sports industry.

Lindsay Brandon is an associate at the Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs. Her practice focuses primarily on representation of athletes in arbitrations involving anti-doping, SafeSport, team selection disputes, and other governing body disputes. Lindsay also has extensive civil litigation experience across various jurisdictions.

A native Seattleite, Lindsay went from working behind the bar to passing it. Her legal career began as a juvenile justice reform advocate with the King County Department of Public Defense and transitioned to sports when she took a gig writing about law and sports for a Northwest publication.

Lindsay is also an Editorial Board member at LawInSport.

We sat down with Lindsay in January 2022 to conduct this interview. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did, and if you would like to listen to the audio version of the conversation, please see below.

If you have any related questions or feedback, then please don’t hesitate to contact us. If you would like to write for LawInSport on any particular topics, please do get in contact and email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For the previous interview with James Kitching, please see here.

Manan Agrawal

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Tags: Anti-Doping | Athlete Welfare | Basketball | Career Advice | Careers | Court of Arbitration For Sport (CAS) | Dispute Resolution | Olympic | Regulation & Governance | Sports

Written by

Manan Agrawal

LawInSport

Manan is currently an Editor at LawInSport. Before joining LawInSport, Manan practiced law at a leading media and entertainment law firm in Mumbai, India. Manan has been a part of LawInSport's inaugural Academy Mentoring Scheme and was mentored by LawInSport CEO and Founder, Sean Cottrell.

Marcos Santillana

Marcos is the Marketing and Editorial Associate at LawInSport.

Prior to joining LawInSport, Marcos undertook a 12-month legal internship with one of the largest anti-slavery organisations in the world, International Justice Mission, at their field office in La Paz, Bolivia. He graduated with an LLM in Commercial & Corporate law from Queen Mary University of London in 2020.

Angelina Sanchez

Angelina Sanchez is a Brooklyn Law School graduate currently residing in New Jersey. She served as an executive board member of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and her journal note discussing copyright compliance and enforcement by social media companies in an international context was published in summer 2022. She was also a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Honors Society and the 2021 UHLC National Mediation Competition champion. Prior to law school, Angelina worked in various industries including marketing, hospitality, and finance, most recently for a fin-tech company, IPC Systems, Inc. As she embarks on the next steps of her career, her focus is on intellectual property, new technology, and media.