Football League (NFL). He also handled numerous sports law cases for clients including the NFLPA, the NBPA, the Arena Football League Players Association, the National Hockey League Players Association, the Major League Baseball Players Association, the NFL Coaches Association, Players, Inc., the Women's Tennis Benefit Association and Adidas. Kessler represented various classes of NBA, NFL, AFL and MLS players, and several professional leagues, including the North American Soccer League and United States Football League, and the cities of San Diego and Oakland and Alameda County, in various sports law disputes. He also successfully represented Latrell Sprewell in his controversial suspension arbitration. Move to Dewey In 2003 Kessler left Weil to join the law firm Dewey Ballantine. Dewey Ballantine later merged with the law firm LeBoeuf & Lam and Kessler was at the newly created "super firm" Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he was the chairman of the firm's global litigation department, co-chairman of the sports litigation practice group, and a member of its executive and leadership committees. He has also recently done work on behalf of the National Invitation Tournament, CAA Sports, Wasserman Media Group, SCP Worldwide, and pro bono work for South African Amputee Sprinter Oscar Pistorious and Castor Semanaya. Both runners were successfully represented by Kessler and allowed to continue their careers despite challenges from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Kessler negotiated the current free agency/salary cap systems in the NFL, NBA, and successfully represented Michael Vick in his roster bonus arbitration, Plaxico Burress in his signing bonus arbitration, and numerous other players in successful arbitrations and "special master cases". Kessler has been a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, where he has taught a course on complex litigation. He has written and lectured on a wide variety of antitrust, sports law and related topics. He published a new edition of International Trade and U.S. Antitrust Law, a leading treatise on antitrust and trade law issues in a global economy, and was co-editor-in-chief of State Antitrust Practice and Statutes. Kessler is a former council member and co-chair of the Publications Committee and chairman of the International Antitrust Law Committee, of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). He was also a member of the ABA's NAFTA Tri-National Committee and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. He was a founding member of the board of advisors of the Georgetown University Study of