Quinn Emanuel Attorney Can Stay as Counsel In U.S. Soccer Spat

An attorney with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan can stay on as counsel for the U.S. Soccer Federation Foundation in its trademark dispute with U.S. soccer’s governing body, a federal judge ruled Sept. 25.

Robert Raskopf isn’t conflicted due to prior work on trademarks for the U.S. Soccer Federation because the matters aren’t the same, Judge Timothy J. Kelly wrote for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Raskopf had worked for a law firm in the 1980s that registered two trademarks for the federation, “neither of which is at issue in this case,” the court noted.

He ...