Jayma M. Meyer, Counsel, represents pro bono clients in Title IX cases and matters involving gender equity in sports. She also is a Visiting Clinical Professor at Indiana University teaching Sports Law and lecturing on issues impacting intercollegiate sports. She is a regular lecturer and panelist at universities, conferences, and symposiums on sports law issues.
Jayma has been pro-bono counsel on Title IX matters involving athletics throughout the country. The Firm has co-counseled on these matters with the California Legal-Aid-At-Work Society, the California Women’s Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and the National Women’s Law Center. She has brought lawsuits in federal court and formal complaints to the Office for Civil Rights (Department of Education) and entered into many resolution agreements with schools that require compliance with Title IX. On a pro bono basis, she also has assisted New Visions for Public Schools and the Urban Assembly Girls School for Criminal Justice on state educational matters, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Women’s Law Center on federal and state constitutional issues, and The Drake Group on matters involving academic integrity in collegiate sports.
Prior to focusing on gender equity in sports pro bono, her areas of concentration at the Firm were substantive antitrust counseling, federal and state antitrust litigation and government investigations. Jayma litigated antitrust cases throughout the U.S. and counseled clients under the Sherman, Clayton, Robinson-Patman, Federal Trade Commission and Hart-Scott-Rodino Acts, including matters alleging price fixing, monopolization and other restraints of trade.
Jayma is a Board Member of the Sports Lawyers Association and chair of its Time for IX program. She also is an Emerita board member of the Women’s Sports Foundation and the National Women’s Law Center. She is Chair of the Dean’s Counsel for the O’Neill School of Environmental and Public Policy at Indiana University. And, she also serves on various advisory boards and councils in the sports arena, including the Concussion Legacy Foundation.
Jayma’s scholarship in the sports arena includes: “A Win Win: College Athletes Get Paid for Their Names, Images and Likenesses and Colleges Maintain the Primacy of Academics”, 11 Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 247 (2020); “It’s on the NCAA: A Playbook for Eliminating Sexual Assault”, 67 Syracuse Law Review 358 (2017), and “The Case for a Limited and Conditional Antitrust Exemption for the NCAA”, 62 Antitrust Bulletin 31 (2017). Her scholarship in the antitrust arena includes "Relaxation of the Per Se Mantra in the Vertical Price Fixing Arena," 68 Southern Ca. Law Review 73 (1994).
Jayma has been admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, New York and California.