NCAA

While it may seem peculiar for a firm rooted in New York state to have an office in the Midwest, it has become the hub of the collegiate athletics practice. Glazier and five others in the practice work with more than 100 intercollegiate athletics programs nationwide, focusing on NCAA compliance and infraction matters. Five of the six are attorneys and the other is a former compliance officer on a Division I campus. The office is close to Kansas City, which is where the NCAA was headquartered when the law firm’s college athletics practice started. When the NCAA moved to Indianapolis, the firm opened an office there for a few years before deciding it could operate the practice while remaining in Overland Park, which is centrally located to both coasts. Much of the attorneys’ time is spent on the road, traveling to the campuses of clients, Glazier said. Many of the matters the firm works on are known publicly, but Glazier prefers not to discuss them. The most high-profile cases are when clients are accused of violating NCAA rules. “It’s a very difficult time for those institutions, and we don’t think it helps our clients at all for us to be out there talking about how we represented University X in this terrible infractions case, where we’re using their misfortune to boost our own image,” he said. “We just go about doing our work and let our clients pass on their experience with us to other people. The lifeblood of our practice is really the referrals we get from our existing clients.” -Michael Petro, Buffalo Business First, Read More