Q & A with Attorney Abigail Watts-FitzGerald

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Abigail Watts-FitzGerald discusses her role as a go-to attorney for sports entities.

Bbb 107 Ab Though she gave up competitive swimming as a 5-foot, 2-inch teenager weighing 90 pounds "soaking wet," Abigail Watts-FitzGerald remains a powerful sports figure. As a partner at Hunton & Williams in Miami, she has served as general counsel to the Orange Bowl Committee for 19 years, handling everything from team hotel accommodations to sponsorship and media agreements. In that time, she has also responded to the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee's request to host the soccer quarterfinals of the 1996 Games in Miami, negotiated the construction and naming of a joint spring training facility in Miami for the Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals, and assisted the South Florida Golf Foundation in staging annual PGA Tour events at the Doral Resort & Spa. Next month, the Super Bowl returns to Dolphin Stadium, marking the third time in nine years that the 54-year-old attorney has negotiated a stadium agreement on behalf of the NFL for its marquee event. Paul Steinbach asked Watts-FitzGerald to share some behind-the-scenes perspective.

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