Title IX Lawyer Launches Firm With Roster of College Athlete Clients
Arthur H. Bryant, the prominent Title IX attorney known for representing college athletes in high-profile sex discrimination cases, is launching his own Bay Area-based practice next week—a move he sees as perfectly timed for a surge in such litigation.
Bryant has most recently served as a partner at Clarkson Law Firm, the public interest practice, where he headed up its Title IX team. He previously worked at the San Francisco office of Bailey & Glasser after serving as chairman and executive director of Public Justice, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit legal advocacy organization.
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'This is a period of golden opportunities for Title IX enforcement in America,' Bryant said in a phone interview. 'The law is very clear that women athletes at colleges and universities are supposed to get equal opportunities to participate, equal financial aid and equal treatment compared to men. And some schools are providing it. But many, many, many are not. And all it takes to hold them accountable is women being willing to sue.'
Bryant, who served as lead counsel in the first ever Title IX case filed against a university (Haffer v. Temple University in 1986) for discriminating against its female athletes, currently represents a group of former Oregon club rowers and varsity beach volleyball players in a lawsuit against UO.
That class-action litigation—which withstood the university's motion to dismiss—alleges multiple forms of gender-based discrimination, including by providing superior NIL resources and opportunities to male athletes. If the House v. NCAA settlement is approved, and depending on how Oregon allocates its revenue-sharing funds, this case stands ready to serve as the first legal challenge the settlement's injunctive relief on Title IX grounds.
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In addition, Bryant is also suing both Fresno State and San Diego State on behalf of female athletes at those schools, in addition to representing eight athlete House objectors in collaboration with the law firm MoloLamken.
'Because of the House v. NCAA settlement,' Bryant said, 'some schools are going to be eliminating women's teams in violation of Title IX and sometimes even men's teams in violation of Title IX, and any school that decides it is going to make name, image and likeness [payments] disproportionately to men is opening themselves up to a massive Title IX damages lawsuit. While my new law firm will not be limited to Title IX cases, it seems like a perfect time to do this.'
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