Lamont Jones
A card game enthusiast and boxing business attorney, Lamont Jones serves as General Counsel for Haymon Boxing Management, creator of the Premier Boxing Champions platform, and advisor for numerous elite professional boxing champions, contenders and prospects.
A former Olympic movement executive, Jones served as Executive Director of USA Boxing and General Counsel of USA Track & Field. Jones also established and led the in-house legal department for the Aspen Institute.
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 corporate law firm settings, and with characters in the rough-and-tumble of boxing business. Jones believes that card games connect people, and that the rich story of Bid Whist deserves to be widely known.
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I’m interested in your card game anecdotes and stories. Get at me at Lamont@gistofbidwhist.com!