What:

When: Sunday, February 26, 2012

Where: Nova Southeastern University (Shepard Broad Law Center, 3305 College Avenue, Davie, FL 33314)

AGENDA

9:30-10:00 Check-In and Breakfast

10:00-10:20 Opening Remarks

10:20-11:20 (Panel #1)

What’s Trending in Fashion Law

Panelists:

• Emily Graham, Owner at The Law Offices of Emily Patricia Graham
• Kim Kolback, Owner at Law Offices Of Kimberly Kolback
• Jean Perwin, Attorney at Law Offices of Jean S. Perwin
• Brittany Rawlings, Fashion Attorney & Owner/Designer of B.RAWLINGS

11:20-12:20 (Panel #2)

Festivals and Touring

Panelists:

• Helaine Blum, President at Grand Avenue ECDC
• John Bradley, Managing Member at Bradley Legal Group, P.A.
• Jennifer Gomez, Attorney & Certified Mediator at Jennifer Gomez, PA
• Allison Sinclair, Attorney at Santucci Priore, PL
• Cassi Willard

12:20-1:30 Luncheon
Keynote Speaker – tba

1:30-2:30 (Panel #3)

Sports and Torts

Panelists:

• Joe Costello, Attorney at Kelley, Kronenberg, Gilmartin, Fichtel & Wander
• Alan Fertel, Partner at Boyd & Jenerette
• Darren Heitner, Attorney at Wolfe Law Miami, P.A., Owner of Sports Agent Blog
• Michael Richmond, Professor at Nova Southeastern University
• Jason Weiss, Partner at Smith & Verbit, PL

2:30-2:40 Break

2:40-3:40 (Panel #4)

Music on the Internet

Panelists:

• Charlotte Towne, Owner at Charlotte Towne, P.A.
• Others TBA

Cost: Pre-Registration (before Feb 12): NSU Law Students $10, Non-NSU Law Students $20, General Admission $30, Attorneys for CLE $75.  For more info, please contact SELS President, Josh Blasberg, at blasbergj@nsu.law.nova.edu.

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What: 7th Annual Widener University School of Law Sports and Entertainment Law CLE Symposium

When: Thursday, February 16, 2012 (10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)

Where: Widener University School of Law Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom (4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803)

Offering FIVE (5) CLE credits in DE & PA (including one ethics credit)

AGENDA

9:00–9:50 am  Registration and Continental Breakfast (included with registration)

9:50–9:55 am  Introductions

9:55–10:00 am  Welcome: Sports and Entertainment Association

Panel One – Sports Panel

10:00–11:15 am

“Sports Law in Hindsight: A Dissection of the NFL Lockout”

• Moderator: Christopher J. Cabott, Esquire, Zane Management, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
• Andrew Brandt, Sports Business Analyst, ESPN
• Howie Roseman, Esquire, General Manager, Philadelphia Eagles

11:15–11:30 am Refreshment Break

Panel Two – TV/ Film Panel

11:30 am–12:45 pm

“Reality TV: Beyond the Jersey Shore”

• Moderator: Alexander Murphy, Jr., Esquire, The Law Offices of Alexander Murphy and Adjunct Faculty, Widener Law
• Justin B. Wineburgh, Esquire, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA
• John Foy, Executive Producer, Addicted to Food

12:45–2:00 pm  Lunch—Barristers’ Club (included with registration)

Panel Three – Music Panel

2:00–3:15 pm

“How to Become a Great  Music Lawyer in One Hour… and Sixty­three Years”

• Moderator: Alexander Murphy, Jr., Esquire, The Law Offices of Alexander Murphy and Adjunct Faculty, Widener Law
• Kenneth J. Abdo, Esquire, Lommen Abdo, Minneapolis, MN
• Robert E. Donnelly, Esquire, Lommen Abdo, New York City, NY

3:15–3:30 pm  Refreshment Break

Panel Four – Ethics Panel

3:30–4:45 p

“Ethics in Intercollegiate Athletics— Lessons Learned”

• Moderator: Alexander Murphy, Jr., Esquire, The Law Offices of Alexander Murphy and Adjunct Faculty, Widener Law
• Heather Lyke, Associate Athletic Director, The Ohio State University
• John P. Sahl, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Miller­Becker Center for Professional Responsibility, University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH

Cost: $125. Widener Law Alumni Fee is $100.  Registration form is embedded, below.

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When: February 10, 2012 (12 p.m.)

Where: Villanova Room of The Connelly Center

Villanova University School of Law (VSL) convenes an all-star roster of leading experts from sports and television for its 2012 Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal Symposium, “Moneyball’s Impact on Business and Sports.” Jeffrey S. Moorad VSL ’81, vice chairman and CEO of the San Diego Padres, headlines the panel alongside Billy Beane, vice president and general manager of the Oakland A’s; Omar Minaya, senior vice president of baseball operations for the Padres; and Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC. Former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell VSL ’68, a guest sports commentator for Comcast SportsNet and the Philadelphia Daily News, serves as moderator. A question-and-answer session follows the panel discussion.

Beane’s distinctive analytical approach to making personnel decisions, allowing his team to remain competitive while managing payroll, has changed the business-side of sports for franchise executives, players and agents alike. Other Major League franchises—including the San Diego Padres, New York Mets, and Boston Red Sox—soon began ‘playing Moneyball,’ adopting sabermetrics as a predictive tool and in turn impacting the landscape of America’s pastime. Symposium panelists Moorad, Beane, Minaya and Griffin will analyze the impact of Moneyball and the variety of ways it has changed the face of sports from player contracts to media markets and competitive balance.

Cost: Free for registered attendees.  Register here.  The Symposium will also be simulcast live at www.law.villanova.edu.

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The Athlete Agent Reform Act of 2011 falls in line with new athlete agent laws of other states, including Texas, which are either trying to scare agents with potential heavy jail sentences, appeasing their constituencies who continue to read about sports agent atrocities in the news, and/or trying to protect colleges from being sanctioned by the NCAA.  However, Tennessee’s new law also addresses recruiters like Will Lyles, parents like Cecil Newton, runners, and financial planners, even if it fails to provide any punishment for athletes and/or universities who are involved in the illegal activities.

Like the new Act or not, this post is not about its efficacies.  Instead, I am wondering whether it is the Act that should be given credit for the rise in athlete agent registrations.

I am taking no credit away from the men and women who stood behind the Athlete Agent Reform bill in Tennessee’s House and Senate, but perhaps credit for the rise in registrations should be given to Collegiate Sports Advisors (CSA), which assisted in organizing and running The University of Memphis’ first ever Agent Day on December 3, 2011 as well as the creation of the university’s first Professional Sports Counseling Panel.  I distinctly recall a conversation I had with Andrew Dodd, athlete agent registrar in the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office, who told me about the rise in registrations leading up to that particular event.  If the state wants to get even more registrations, it should implore other schools within its borders to hire CSA.  And if other states wish to mimic Tennessee’s success, they should follow suit.

Disclosure: The author of this post is a co-founder of the aforementioned Collegiate Sports Advisors

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When: Friday January, 27 2012

Where: White Stag Building, Portland, Oregon (map)

Schedule:

8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.: Registration
9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.: Panel Presented by Schwabe, Williamson, & Wyatt: Entertainment in the Northwest 

• Javier Zamora, Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department at NIKE, Inc.
• Bart Day, partner at the Portland law firm of Day and Koch LLP
• Matthew Hooper, Chair of the Arts & Entertainment Group at Foster Pepper.
• Moderator: Mike Cohen, Shareholder at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in Portland.

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Women in Sports and Entertainment 

• Peg Brand, Ph. D., Courtesy Associate Professor with the University of Oregon School of Law and the Robert D. Clark Honors College and an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Indiana University.
• Ellen Devlin, Adjunct Professor of Sports Products at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon.
• Eryn Potempa, attorney in the Sports Marketing group at NIKE, Inc.
• Lynne Graybeal, Partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle and serves as Co-Chair of their Arts, Entertainment & Sports Industry Group.
• Moderator: Whitney Wagoner, Senior Instructor of Sports Business/Industry Analyst for the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m: The Changing Face of the NCAA 

• Woodie Dixon, General Counsel and Vice President of Business Affairs for the Pacific-12 Conference.
• Maureen Weston, Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
• John Shukie, Director of Academic and Membership Affairs (AMA) at the NCAA in Indianapolis.
• Jerry Parkinson, Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law since 1998 and served as Dean from 1998 to 2009.
• Moderator: Benjamin Golliver, Northwest sports journalist.

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.: The Rise of the Agent 

• Richard Karcher, Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law.
• Audie Attar, President of Paradigm Sports Management, LLC.
• Eugene T. Lee, Esq., President of ETL Associates, Inc.
• Moderator: Mark Phelps, Tykeson Senior Instructor of International and Sports Business Law and Ethics in the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business and its Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.: Reception

Cost: $90.00 [for practitioners]; $35.00 [for the general public] and $25.00 [for students] (Registration includes: attendance to all panels, lunch, and reception).  Day of registration at the door is: $100.00 [for practitioner], $40.00 [for the general public] and $30.00 [for students].  Register here.

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When: September 28-30, 2012

Where: Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California

The Competition will include 4 rounds of negotiation problems in sports topics.  The San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants baseball game will be held in multiple luxury suites at Petco Park on September 28.  The Competition will begin on the morning of September 29.  The final rounds will end late morning September 30.  The 11th Annual Sports Law Symposium will follow on the afternoon of September 30.

For examples of past negotiation problems, click here.

Cost: Register here.

• National Sports Law Negotiation Competition ($450.00 registration fee for two competitors)
• Additional Coaches and Faculty Advisor(s) ($60.00 per additional person)

SPORTS LAW SYMPOSIUM ONLY Tickets:

• $55.00 – Guests
• $35.00 – Thomas Jefferson School of Law Faculty, Staff, Alumni & San Diego County Bar Association Members
• $25.00 – Law Students

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What:

When: Friday, February 24, 2012

Where: Bloomington, Illinois

Keynote Speaker: San Diego Padres executive and sport marketing guru Dan Migala

Other speakers:

• Matt Difebo - VP, IMG College Ticket Solutions
• Mary Pink - Associate Athletic Director of Marketing, Iowa State Athletics
• Erin Harvego - VP Marketing, Big Ten Network
• Jeff Jurgella - General Manager, Badger Sport Properties-Wisconsin Athletics
• Gary Friedman - Director of Athletics, Illinois State Athletics
• Marty Hickman - Executive Director, Illinois High School Association

Cost: $25 (includes lunch and an internship fair). Registration form is embedded below.

Symposium Registration Form

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The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University announced the publication of its inaugural edition of the Sports and Entertainment Law Journal at the first Arizona State University Sports & Entertainment Law Conference, held in late 2010.  For a first issue of a Sports & Entertainment Law Journal, I was pleasantly surprised with the authors and content included within the Journal.

In November of this year, I was honored to be a part of Arizona State’s 2nd Annual Conference On Sports & Entertainment Law, speaking on the collective bargaining agreements within the “Big 4 Sports” along with Sports Agent Regulation.

Today, I am proud to announce that the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University’s Sports and Entertainment Law Journal has very recently presented Volume 1 Issue 2 of its Journal.  The publication is available online for a limited time in digital format free of charge (download Volume 1 Issue 2 here).  If you would like to purchase a print version please contact asulaw.selj@gmail.com.

The second edition includes the following articles:

1.  Boxing: One Last Cry for National Uniformity, Isai Molina
2.  Genetic Doping: The Lance Armstrong Case as a Preview for Future Regulations, Jason Steiner
3.  Mixing Contests and Sweepstakes with Entertainment Programming, Joy R. Butler
4.  Amateurism – Outdated or Still a Vital Concept?, Elsa Cole
5.  Let’s Make a Deal: Examining the Contentious Relationship Between the National Hockey League and Kontinental Hockey League, Ross Appel
6.  Give my Regards to The United States Copyright Office? A Determination of Whether Copyright Protection Should be Extended to Stage Directions, Ryan Byrnes

Congratulations to the entire staff at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University’s Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, including Kellen Bradley, who was an excellent ambassador for his school while I was in Tempe, Arizona in November.

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I thoroughly believe that the program Collegiate Sports Advisors has installed at Memphis is something that can and should be duplicated at universities across the nation.

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After not receiving a favorable response, Marshall’s office filed a petition for an order to compel the NCAA to release the documents.  The NCAA objected on jurisdictional grounds, claiming that Marshall should have filed the petition in Indiana (the NCAA’s principal place of business) instead of North Carolina.  The hearing on the petition commenced two days ago in the Wake County, North Carolina Superior Court.  Instead of ruling one way or the other, the judge (Judge Paul C. Ridgeway) provided the parties an additional 60 days to attempt to resolve their dispute; however, Ridgeway did state that Marshall’s office should re-file the subpoena in Indiana.  The NCAA’s attorney promised that the requested documents will be delivered, in unredacted form, thereafter.  The petition filed by Marshall’s office noted that the NCAA previously aimed to redact “confidential information.”

Now that the NCAA has changed its stance, the assumption is that the State of North Carolina will file the subpoena in Indiana and gain access to the documents.  Perhaps at some point in time, the state will be able to get to the bottom of many agent related issues, including the relationship between John Blake and Gary Wichard.

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