Jeffrey Standen serves as Of Counsel to the firm. He is also a professor of law and teaches litigation-related subjects, including Evidence, Remedies, and Civil Procedure. His current
scholarly work focuses on defamation. He is the author of a forthcoming Aspen Publishing casebook on Media Law and Internet Defamation.

Previously, Standen served as an Associate attorney at Hunton Andrews Kurth (formerly Hunton & Williams), where his litigation practice revolved around complex multi-state RICO and securities suits, products liability, and general business litigation. He also held the position of Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and served as a law clerk for a federal judge at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Admitted to Practice:

Virginia, 1986
Oregon, 1999
Supreme Court of the United States

Education:

University of Virginia, Virginia Law Review, J.D.
London School of Economics
Georgetown University, cum laude, A.B.

Memberships, Honors and Community Involvement

International Advisor, The Philippines Court of the Sandiganbayan
USAID Consultant Lecturer
Cincinnati Bar Association Board of Trustees
Kentucky Bar Foundation Board of Directors
Sports Lawyers Association
International Masters of Gaming Law
American Law and Economics Association
Oregon State Bar
Virginia State Bar
American Bar Association

Publications and Presentations

Books, Chapters, and Contributions:
Media Law, Defamation, and the Internet (Aspen Publishing, forthcoming 2027)
The Beauty of Bets: Prediction Markets and The Problem of Compensation (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Criminal Law Regulation of Sporting Violence, in Concise Encyclopedia of Sport, Edward Elgar Publishing (2025)
Law School Undercover (Fine Print Press, 2011)
Taking Sports Seriously: Law and Sports in Contemporary American Culture (Carolina Academic Press, 2008)
Blood Sports in an Age of Liability, in Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law, Oxford University Press (2018)
Concussion Liability in Organized Sports, in Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford University Press (2017)
The Law of Sports Wagering, in Oxford Handbooks Online, ed. Markus Dubber, New York: Oxford University Press (2016)

Articles:
The Anti-SLAPP Knockout: Litigation Incentives, the Seventh Amendment, and the Lost Tort of
Defamation, University of Louisville Law Review 62:293 (2024)
Republication Liability on the Web, Marquette Law Review 105:669 (2022)

Selected Presentations
“Sports Gambling and Christie II,” Marquette Law School (October 2017)
“Faculty Matters: Working Effectively With Our Once and Future Colleagues,” American Bar Association Deans Workshop (Washington, D.C., June 2017)
“Sports Betting Deregulated,” American Association of Law Schools (San Francisco, January 2017)
“The Special Exemption for Fantasy Sports,” International Conference on Gambling (Las Vegas, June 2016)
“The Legality of Fantasy Sports,” International Masters of Gaming Law (San Francisco, April 2016)