The Buffalo Bills have their new senior vice president and chief legal officer.
After 35 years at one of Buffalo’s largest law firms, which includes work with connections to past Bills-related projects, Terry Gilbride will join the team in the role that was recently vacated in the latest of the team’s administrative shakeups.
Gilbride will replace former Bills general counsel Kathryn D’Angelo, who was let go last month after sources confirmed to The Buffalo News that she was having a romantic relationship with then-Bills Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President John Roth that was deemed inappropriate because Roth was her superior.
The Buffalo Bills and Sabres are undergoing another management shakeup.
Roth was also let go by Terry Pegula, who also serves as the team president.
Gilbride spent his entire career as an attorney with Hodgson Russ and during that time, was familiar with transactions that involved the Bills and Pegula Sports and Entertainment, which until this year oversaw Terry and Kim Pegula-owned entities like the Bills and Buffalo Sabres.
The Bills confirmed the hire but did not release a statement. Gilbride will start Dec. 1.
“Terry Gilbride is an exceptional attorney with deep experience,” said Benjamin M. Zuffranieri,…
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