Weinroth wrote in a post on his LinkedIn profile last week that he will work with Dolphins general counsel Myles Pistorius and senior director of legal and government affairs Marcus Bach Armas. Jaguars spokeswoman Amanda Holt said the team is currently interviewing candidates to replace Strackbine. Megha Parekh, another former Proskauer lawyer, remains legal director of the Jaguars and AEW. Manara was most recently vice president of labor relations and policy at the NFL in New York, where he has worked since 2008, according to the Sports Business Journal. He cited three anonymous sources in September asking him for the Raiders` top legal position, noting several other executives hired by the club. The cheerleaders weren`t the only staff members who were abused. Adams, who started in human resources in 2016, said she would have to create job descriptions that would prevent employees from reporting overtime, even though workers could record 12 hours or more on game days, at training camp and other busy times. Adams said she told her boss it was illegal to avoid overtime. His boss agreed, but said Ventrelle wanted it.
The Raiders aren`t the only NFL team to change its internal legal ranks. “If someone complained, they would be fired,” said Nicole Adams, who worked in human resources for nearly five years. She was forced out of her position at the end of 2020 and refused to sign a severance deal that she said would have prevented her from talking about her tenure on the team. She said Ventrelle, then the team`s general counsel, “joked that he would be willing to settle if someone laid charges.” Ventrelle, whom Manara replaces, spent 17 years as the Raiders` legal chief. The team hired Ventrelle during his tenure as general counsel to oversee a team of lawyers from five outside law firms who represented the team during its move to Las Vegas. During his time at the league, Manara often took the lead on labor law issues related to players and referees, according to an online biography. Manara was part of an NFL team that advised on collective bargaining with the NFL Players Association in 2011 and 2020. An online job posting for the Raiders` general counsel position, posted this summer, says the position will guide the team`s legal function by providing “strategic advice and guidance in all” legal and risk matters, as well as “supervising, guiding and developing members of the in-house legal group.” Last year, the NFL successfully scuttled an appeal in this Oakland antitrust case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Raiders, who moved to Las Vegas last year after playing in Oakland, California, for the past 25 years, are dealing with the aftermath of Gruden`s sudden resignation.
The coach and the Raiders parted ways last week following the revelation of racist, misogynistic and homophobic emails sent by Gruden over the past decade. The front office section of the Raiders` website shows Morgan as the team`s No. 2 after Davis. The club also recently welcomed Piper Overstreet-White on board as Vice President of Government Relations and promoted Deputy General Counsel Zahir Rahman to Deputy General Counsel. The Raiders are REALLY the Lions of the AFC! Actually worse!! In May, the Raiders fired former longtime general counsel and interim team president Daniel Ventrelle after 18 years with the club. Ventrelle said he was fired after informing NFL headquarters of an alleged hostile work environment and other misconduct under Raiders owner Mark Davis. Lawsuits against the team for alleged poor working conditions continue to be filed. Matthew Proscia, who worked for The Raider Image, the team`s clothing stores, filed a class-action lawsuit last month accusing the team of overtime violations and a “company-wide policy and practice of refusing to pay full daily overtime pay to Nevada employees who worked more than eight hours per work day.” The Hall of Fame has chosen Jim Porter, its director of marketing and communications, to replace Baker at its helm. Baker was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014. Senior vice president and general counsel Kevin Manara has left the organization after 10 months on the job, according to Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal.
As for Gruden, while the NFL said no other staff members were involved in an investigation that collected 650,000 emails from the Washington football team, correspondence from league general counsel Jeffrey Pash surfaced in the fund, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Ventrelle did not respond to requests for comment, but he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal shortly after leaving that he had made an effort to clean things up and informed league officials of written complaints from employees about alleged wrongdoing. In interviews with The New York Times, more than a dozen former employees, some of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they signed agreements with the team prohibiting them from speaking publicly about their jobs, described many problems, big and small. There were, they said, lax controls over how money was spent and how people were paid, and even the botched payment of one`s taxes over several years. Shortly after they moved, the team missed a payment for the electricity bill in their temporary office, necessitating the lights being turned off. Unsurprisingly, the Raiders` general counsel has resigned – the guy is probably exhausted by all the labor disputes. Ventrelle, who had served as the team`s general counsel, was named interim president after Badain abruptly left in July. This was followed by a wave of departures of high-ranking employees.
Tom Blanda, responsible for the construction of the stadium; Mark Shearer, Chief Revenue Officer; and Brandon Doll, vice president of business strategy, have left the team. Trash franchise. I haven`t won a playoff game in 2 decades. Mark should sell, he`s not his father He has also dealt with complaints and personal behavior involving prominent players such as star quarterback Tom Brady`s “Deflategate” conflict and the suspensions of former running back Ray Rice and linebacker Robert Quinn. Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer is representing the Raiders in this lawsuit and has also advised on the team`s relocation, while Covington has taken over as head of the NFL, a longtime client of the law firm. The NFL declined to comment Friday. Following Ventrelle`s allegations last week about a hostile work environment within the team, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league would investigate the matter. The late leaders had collectively worked for the Raiders for more than 100 years, with most of their tenure going back to Al Davis.
“We have recently become aware of these allegations and take them very seriously,” McCarthy said. But over the next year, this “team” would continue to disintegrate. Gruden was gone only three months after his speech, and immediately thereafter, employees received impromptu bonuses of $5,000, or a percentage of their salary, depending on their rank on the team. One former employee who received the bonus felt it was an attempt by Davis to boost morale — but there was more upheaval. The decimation of the front office staff is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Raiders. In October, coach Jon Gruden resigned after the Times published detailed emails in which he made homophobic and misogynistic remarks before embarking on his second stint with the team. Two players in his tenure have been charged with crimes. The team`s problems come at a time when the NFL, which is more popular with fans than ever, is grappling with serious questions surrounding how the league and some teams are run. The league was rocked by a scandal at the Washington Commanders, where dozens of employees accused team owner Daniel Snyder and senior executives of harassment. The team was fined $10 million last year and replaced many executives and rebranded itself. A congressional committee and the attorneys general of Virginia and the District of Columbia are investigating some of the allegations, including mismanagement of the team`s finances. Amid the turmoil, some of the team`s leadership positions remained vacant.
Morgan did not respond to a request for comment on Carley`s attitude. Not even Carley or Manara. “The Raiders operate in the Stone Age,” Adams said. Another former employee, who wished to remain anonymous for fear of professional consequences, said: “Everything was still a lot of paper, files, boxes, warehouses.” Weinroth spent more than four years at Jones Day in Miami, where he frequently represented colleges and universities in sports-related litigation. Previously, he spent a decade working in-house at the University of Miami and as a commercial litigation partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Adams, who is black, filed a lawsuit against the Raiders with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission. In the complaint, which was reviewed by the Times, she accused the team of discriminating against her because of her race and retaliating against her after raising concerns about pay gaps and inequality. The NFL`s Las Vegas Raiders, fresh from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on their move from California to the city, have hired a new general counsel in the person of former Snell & Wilmer partner Justin Carley. A few days later, it was Ventrelle`s turn to leave. Davis` public statement gave no reason for his dismissal.
Ventrelle insisted to the Review Journal that he had tried unsuccessfully to solve the team`s problems with Davis. Jaime Stratton, who led human resources for two years, left the company in April. Employees were informed of her departure in an email, which stated only that she was “no longer” on the team.