Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics is reporting that longtime WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt will no longer be representing WWE in the antitrust lawsuit filed by MLW as he is retiring.

In comments to Thurston, McDevitt said that he hoped that the judge would throw MLW’s lawsuit again but he didn’t and the case will run into 2025 for sure and he wanted to retire by the end of the year.

“It would make sense for them to secure counsel who can go the distance on the case now that discovery will be starting. There is also the chance that I might be a witness given the allegations,” McDevitt wrote.

McDevitt will be 74 in six months and said that it was the right time to transition to retirement, although he will continue to help WWE and Vince McMahon in any way he can.

He has served as Vince’s and WWE’s attorney for the past 36 years and has been one of McMahon’s most trusted individuals. McDevitt has always been the one to take WWE’s major court cases and has helped Vince beat the federal government in 1994 after the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York criminal court brought a case against Vince McMahon on suspicion of supplying illegal anabolic steroids to his wrestlers.

Attorneys from the firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison LLP will be working with WWE on this MLW antitrust lawsuit.