Mr. Ronald Lawrence Barabas

Legal Counsel

TNT Sports

Ron is Director, Legal Counsel – Sports for Warner Bros. Discovery (“WBD”), where he provides legal support for WBD’s sports media business, which includes broadcasts of NBA, NHL, MLB, US Soccer, and NCAA March Madness men’s basketball games on TNT, TBS and Max, as well as other operations for properties like Golf Digest and Bleacher Report. Among his responsibilities, he advises on and negotiates contracts for a wide range of transactional matters, including strategic partnerships and other custom collaborations, media rights acquisitions, licenses (e.g., technology, data, content), talent agreements with marquee sports personalities, operational matters (e.g., studio construction, production management, special events), and various revenue-generating transactions (e.g., official marketing partnerships, sponsorships, on-air integrations, ad sales, merchandising). Ron also presently serves as Vice Chair - Sports for the Georgia Bar’s Entertainment & Sports Law Section, as a mentor with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and as a member of The Amputee Coalition's board of directors. Ron graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in English with Honors and received his JD from Emory University School of Law.