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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is President-elect Donald Trump's revised pick to lead the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Bondi will play an instrumental role in reshaping the business of sports-especially in how antitrust law governs the industry.

Bondi, who served as Florida's AG from 2011 to 2019, is no stranger to antitrust issues in sports.  In 2016, she led a group of states' attorneys general in negotiating a settlement with the NFL regarding a league-wide mandatory price floor policy. The league previously required each team to impose a price floor on secondary market ticket sales. This policy, Bondi and other AGs alleged, was problematic under antitrust law and generated artificially high ticket prices. The settlement required the NFL to refrain from directing teams to use ticketing practices that made it more difficult to buy tickets on competing exchanges.

After completing her term as attorney general, Bondi joined the lobbying firm Ballard Partners to direct the firm's corporate regulatory compliance practice. Major League Baseball retained Ballard Partners, including Bondi, to lobby on unspecified issues "related to combating human trafficking," which was a league focus in conjunction with its players' union at the time.