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Attorney Kayla Williams Joins the Sports Law Expert Podcast to Discuss Her Legal Work in Collegiate Athletics

06-09-2025 07:20 PM CET | Sports

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Kayla Williams

Hackney Publications announced today that Kayla Williams of Lightfoot, Franklin & White (https://www.lightfootlaw.com), who offers expertise in the area of collegiate athletics and NIL, is the latest guest on the Sports Law Expert Podcast.

The segment can be heard here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-visit-with-sports-lawyer-kayla-williams/id1740807429?i=1000710918973.

"Kayla is one of emerging young sports lawyers, who is making a name for herself in collegiate athletics," said Holt Hackney, the CEO of Hackney Publications. "Combine that with the fact that she is part of a highly respected legal team at Lightfoot and it is easy to see why we selected her as a guest."

In addition to her work in collegiate athletics, Williams also handles cases involving toxic torts, product liability, and employment discrimination.

She earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School. A three-year merit scholar, Williams refined her skills in oral advocacy, while serving as the head coach of the Tulane Moot Court team. Earning several recognitions during law school, she was honored as a Greater New Orleans Martinet Society Scholarship Recipient, ABA Negotiation National Finalist, National Black Law Student Association Negotiations Finalist and Tulane Intraschool Champion.

In addition to securing her sports law certification at Tulane, Williams clerked for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee in Colorado Springs. During that time, she expanded her knowledge of NIL and collegiate legal matters, managing client intake for anti-doping charges and sexual harassment and abuse allegations. Williams also offered mediation and dispute resolution resources to athletes at the Tokyo Olympics.

For more on her background, visit https://www.lightfootlaw.com/people/kayla-r-williams

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Hackney Publications (www.hackneypublications.com) is the nation's leading publisher of sports law periodicals. The company was founded by journalist Holt Hackney. Hackney began his career as a sportswriter, before taking on the then-nascent sports business beat at Financial World Magazine in the late 1980s. A few years later, Hackney started writing about the law, managing five legal newsletters for LRP Publications. In 1999, he founded Hackney Publications. Today, Hackney publishes or co-publishes 25 sports law periodicals, including Sports Litigation Alert (www.sportslitigationalert.com).

The Alert, which publishes 24 times a year, offers subscribers a searchable archive of more than 5,000 case summaries and articles, the largest sports law-specific archive in the world. Not surprisingly, the Alert is used in more than 100 sports law classrooms any given semester, entraining students destined for a career in the sports industry, as well as the next generation of sports lawyers.

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