<p>Join us for a fireside chat with DeMaurice Fitzgerald Smith, Esquire of the NFL Player's Association.&nbsp; He is the Executive Director of the&nbsp; National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA) since 2009.&nbsp; As Executive Director of the NFLPA during the 2011 NFL lockout, Smith played a major role in helping the players and NFL owners come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement.</p>
<p>Prior to his work with the NFLPA, DeMaurice Smith was a trial lawyer and litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. offices of Latham &amp; Watkins and Patton Boggs, serving as the chair of the firm's government investigations and white-collar practice group. Smith previously served as Counsel to then-Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder in the U.S. Department of Justice before entering private practice. He spent nine years with the U.S. Attorney's office and one with the Department of Justice, working on issues like national security and prison construction.<sup>&nbsp;</sup> Smith has also represented Fortune 500 companies, and argued numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.</p>
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