Lamont Jones
We’ve been working with author and boxing lawyer Lamont Jones on his forthcoming book, The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally Rich Card Game from Black America.
Lamont Jones serves as General Counsel for Haymon Boxing Management, creator of the Premier Boxing Champions platform, and advisor for more than 100 elite professional boxing champions, contenders and prospects.
Previously, Jones established and led the legal department for the Aspen Institute. A former Olympic movement executive, Jones served as General Counsel of USA Track & Field and Executive Director of USA Boxing.
Jones started his legal career with Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles and Baker Botts in Houston before representing leading boxing industry figures in contract negotiations, litigation and trials. Before law school, Jones competed in more than 200 amateur boxing bouts.
Jones is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Jones has enjoyed playing cards with a diverse range of people, starting in his hometown in the “Little Dixie” section of Oklahoma, as well as on Ivy League campuses, in white-shoe law firm and corporate settings, and in the rough-and-tumble of the boxing business throughout the United States and around the world.
The Gist of Bid Whist
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