Welcome to full time with Meg Linahan. I'm host, Meg, and we have a bonus episode for you today

before we wrap up our Olympic coverage. We get that final 4 a.m. Eastern wake-up time

over and done with on Thursday. But with all of the legal news that's been coming in the

appeal of the Equal Pay lawsuit filed by 28 U.S. Women's National Team players between

the opening brief and then six amicus briefs last week. I've been balancing all of the soccer

news with the U.S. Women's National Team and WS.L with reading lots of PDFs off PACER again. If you

don't know what PACER is, I envy you.

But while so far all of this opening action from the appeal has been from the players today's guest is Jamie Wine, who is a partner at Latham and Watkins, who represents U.S. soccer.

The firm was tapped for the case last March. Jamie will explain more on that timing, but you might remember that one week in March

very well since it was also the start of the global pandemic, at least here in the U.S., and reframed

the Federation's arguments ahead of the district court's partial summary judgment last year. Now,

as someone who obviously has to report on both sides of this, I had never actually spoken with

Jamie Wine until today. So actually being able to ask some questions directly was honestly very

helpful for me. Hopefully it's helpful for you too to hear her perspective and point of view on the

case. Before we get to the rest of the bonus pod, your reminder that you can show your support

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app by subscribing now at theathletic.com slash full-time. There's always an offer there, and it's

always one of our best deals. All right. So, James, first of all, let's get to meet you. We have never spoken. I feel like I've read a lot of your

your words throughout the span of this time. But first, I mean, if honestly, you just wanted to kind of

introduce yourself and how you came into this case, too, I think that would be super helpful as a place to start.

Sure. And thanks, Meg. It's so great to be here today. So thanks for the opportunity to chat

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