Colleges / Headline / Recruiting / Sports Law
July 25, 2013
The latest “agent warning letter” is brought to you by the Office of General Counsel at NC State University and delivered via mail to individuals registered as Athlete Agents with the North Carolina Secretary...
Headline / Sports Business / Sports Law
July 24, 2013
The article that caught the attention of football agents this past weekend was written by Ben Volin of the Boston Globe and titled, NFL owners destroyed the players in CBA negotiations. Yes, that is certainly...
Headline / Sports Agents / Sports Law
July 8, 2013
April 9 was a busy day for the NFL Players Association Committee on Agent Regulation and Discipline (“CARD”). As announced via two separate press releases on its official website on April 28, the NFLPA decided...
Headline / Recruiting / Sports Law
July 1, 2013
Late Friday afternoon, many football agents received an email from Emily Garr, a Compliance Assistant at the University of Louisville Athletics. The unexpected email contained two attachments: (1) a letter from Garr and Jody Sykes, Associate...
June 27, 2013
What: Third Annual Sports Law and Ethics Symposium at Santa Clara Law – Sports Concussions: Problems and Proposed Solutions When: September 12, 2013 (9 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Where: Institute of Sports Law and Ethics, Santa...
June 19, 2013
The Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law (JSEL) has recently the release of its new issue: Volume 4, Number 1. It includes the following baseball-specific articles: Who Exempted Baseball, Anyway? The Curious Development of...
June 12, 2013
What: Event – Sports Law for Rookies and Veterans (part of the Brewer Sports Symposium) When: Thursday, June 20, 2013 (8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Where: Minneapolis Club (729 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota) 8:30-9:45am: If They...
June 6, 2013
At one point in his life, Robert Gist served as NBA player Latrell Sprewell’s agent and attorney. He advised Speewell when apparel company And 1 offered the NBA player a role as endorser of...
Headline / NFL Players / Recruiting / Sports Law
May 30, 2013
A couple of days ago, the following Tweet by NFLPA Contract Advisor Blake Baratz caught my attention: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/blakebaratz/status/339557588339400705″] Later that day, I spoke to Josh Luchs, author of Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes...
Headline / NFL Players / Recruiting / Sports Law
May 28, 2013
The creation of Roc Nation Sports has brought increased attention to the sports agency industry. And rightfully so. Attaching Jay-Z’s name to a sports agency is bold; athletes will be intrigued and competing agents...