Stacey R. Eisenstein
Stacey Eisenstein represents employers in complex labor, employment, ERISA, and business disputes, with a nationally recognized practice focused on the professional and collegiate sports industries. She advises clients on high-stakes matters involving collective bargaining, labor-management relations, executive employment issues, internal investigations, workplace policies, and compliance with federal employment and benefits laws.
She has extensive experience handling precedent-setting arbitrations, federal court litigation, and administrative proceedings involving discipline of professional athletes, contract disputes, employment discrimination claims, Americans with Disabilities Act issues, and disputes arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). She regularly represents trustees of jointly administered multiemployer and Taft-Hartley benefit plans and sports-related employee benefit programs in litigation, government investigations and arbitrations.
Her practice includes counseling and defending employers in matters involving labor arbitration, pension and retirement plan disputes, executive and employee claims, Department of Labor investigations, and collective bargaining matters. She has represented clients in disputes involving breach of contract, drug testing, disciplinary matters and benefit entitlement claims.
A trusted advisor to professional sports leagues, teams, athletic conferences, and other organizations, Stacey counsels clients navigating complex labor, employment, and employee benefits matters. Drawing on decades of experience in the sports industry, she advises organizations across professional sports, collegiate athletics, and the broader sports and entertainment sector on labor relations, workplace issues, collective bargaining matters, benefits disputes, and strategic employment counseling, including guidance for executives, coaches, management personnel, and organizational leadership.
Her work has been recognized by the National Law Journal as a trailblazer in both sports law and employment law and by Washingtonian as a top employment defense lawyer. She has also been recognized by The Legal 500 U.S., Sports Business Journal, and Best Lawyers in America.
Prior to joining Littler, Stacey taught Sports Law and Negotiation as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's Sports Industry Management Program.