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Open Forum: Donald Dell Questions

As noted in a comment by former SportsAgentBlog.com contributor, Nicholas Shwayri, the University of Florida Levin College of Law will be hosting Donald Dell on September 14th, 2007 (this Friday) at 2PM.  I will undoubtedly be at the event, and will hopefully be able to sit down with Mr. Dell after his speech.

This will be a great opportunity to have a personalized conversation with one of the most important sports agents of our time.  Thus, I am asking all of you to post any questions that you think I should ask him as a comment to this post before 2PM on Friday.  I will try my best to ask Mr. Dell as many of them as possible and post whatever I get out of him sometime next week.

Here is what the Florida Law Review had to say about Donald Dell:

Mr. Dell is a former Davis Cup team captain and a renowned sports attorney. During his career, Mr. Dell represented such mega-stars as Moses Malone, Patrick Ewing, and Michael Jordan. In particular, Mr. Dell now represents two athletes dear to the hearts of all Gators: Corey Brewer and Joakim Noah. Mr. Dell is also a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School, where his Professional Sports and the Law course is the most popular class at the law school.

Most importantly, Dell created ProServ, Inc. in 1997, which is now known as SFX Sports Group.  Please make sure to post your questions, and if you are shy, you can e-mail them to me at [email protected].  For all my Jewish readers, Happy New Year!  Enjoy the apples and honey.

-Darren Heitner 

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.