I must say that I am personally looking forward to the following event. I will be in attendance as a participant on a couple of panels at Arizona State’s 2nd Sports and Entertainment Law Conference. The full details (as they currently stand) are posted below. If you happen to be in the area, be sure to come say hi and ask some good questions during the panels.
What: Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s 2nd Annual Conference on Sports and Entertainment Law
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011 (9 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
Where: Armstrong Hall
Schedule:
8:30am – Check-in, Breakfast, and Panel Session Overview
9:00am – Welcome Address (Silent Auction commences)
9:10am – 10:40am Panel Session I (Professional SPORTS)
- “Collective Bargaining Agreements – The Big 4”
- Caleb Jay, Associate General Counsel, Arizona Diamondbacks (Moderator)
- Gregg Clifton, Co-chair of Jackson Lewis’ Collegiate and Professional Sports Industry Group
- Travis Leach, Co-chair of Snell & Wilmer’s Sports and Entertainment Industry Group
- Darren Heitner, Sports Attorney, Founder/Chief Editor of SportsAgentBlog.com, Professor at Indiana University
- “Gene Doping/Drug Testing”
- Gary Marchant, Professor of Law at Arizona State University
- John Hoberman, Professor at University of Texas
10:45am – 12:05pm Panel Session II (ENTERTAINMENT)
- “Protecting IP on the Internet–What is Protectable and How to Enforce”
- Hamid Jabbar, Attorney at Law
- Elissa Hecker, Past Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law (EASL) Section of the New York State Bar Association, Editor of the EASL Journal
- Connie Mableson, Mableson Law Group
- “Right of Publicity & Defamation”
- James Marovich, The Marovich Law Firm, P.L.C.
- Corie Rosen, Professor of Law at Arizona State University
- Don Gibson, President & CEO of Kavi Sports & Entertainment
- Neville Johnson, Founding Partner of Johnson & Johnson, LLP
12:15pm – 12:55pm Lunch
1:05pm – 1:40pm Keynote Address – Arizona Cardinals President Michael Bidwill
1:45pm – 3:05pm Panel Session III (Amateur SPORTS)
- “State of the NCAA: Antitrust & the BCS; Amateurism & Compliance”
- Stephen Webb, Executive Director for Athletic Compliance at ASU
- Tim Epstein, Chair of the Sports Law Practice Group at SmithAmundsen LLC
- Mary Penrose, Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan
- “Sports Agent Regulation”
- Darren Heitner, Sports Attorney, Founder/Chief Editor of SportsAgentBlog.com, Professor at Indiana University
- Travis Leach, Co-chair of Snell & Wilmer’s Sports and Entertainment Industry Group
- Gregg Clifton, Co-chair of Jackson Lewis’ Collegiate and Professional Sports Industry Group
3:15pm – 4:15pm Ethics Presentation
- “Ethics and In-House Counsel”
- Caleb Jay and/or Nona Lee, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Arizona Diamondbacks
4:20pm – 5:30pm Panel Session IV (Professional Sport Team Bankruptcies)
- “Bankruptcy – Stars, Dodgers, Coyotes, Rangers–Who’s Next?”
- Kellen Bradley, Editor in Chief of ASU Sports & Entertainment Law Journal (Moderator)
- Tom Salerno, Partner of Squire Sanders
- Judge Redfield Baum, Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge for the United States bankruptcy court, District of Arizona
- Susan Freeman, Partner at Lewis and Roca
5:30pm – 5:45 pm Closing Remarks
5:45pm – Cocktail Reception
