Law mag fumbles grid concussion article

This legal journal just took a nasty knock on the head.

The National Law Review published an article last week contending that football concussion claims have been unfairly exaggerated — without disclosing that its author sits on the board of the Pop Warner youth-football league.

Wilson Elser partner Anthony Corleto’s Aug. 16 article “0.44 percent of NFL Brains” — which argues that shocking concussion stats recently cited by the Journal of the American Medical Association were drawn from a limited and biased sampling of cases — also failed to mention that Corleto’s law firm is defending the Pop Warner league against negligence charges in a Los Angeles federal court.

After being contacted by The Post about the missing disclosure late last week, the National Law Review has since added one, noting Corleto “serves as general counsel for Pop Warner football. He defends concussion litigation.”

“There was a disclosure included with the original version of the article and somewhere along the line there was a disconnect,” NLR Managing Editor Jennifer Schaller told The Post. “It was not the author’s intent to not include the disclosure, it was a disconnect between the law firm’s public relations department and our publication team.”

Moms in the case allege their sons’ football-related brain injuries contributed to their deaths. Pop Warner’s lawyers at Wilson Elser have moved to dismiss what is now the plaintiffs’ second amended complaint, and a hearing is scheduled for Sept. 18.

The article by Wilson Elser’s Corleto, meanwhile, claims that football concussion suits have become a “cottage industry” of “litigation against every level of the sport from NFL down to Pop Warner.”