California State Senator Kevin de León’s sports agent reform bill (Senate Bill 238) has been signed by California’s governor and will become law starting on January 1, 2012. However, I am not quite ready to go on the record and agree with de León’s statement that “California’s collegiate student athletes scored big when [the bill] was […]
Last week, the Select Committee on Sports and Entertainment in the California State Senate held a hearing titled, Protecting Student Athletes from Unscrupulous Athlete Agents at the Los Angeles Coliseum to discuss the state’s athlete agent law known as the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act, and what, if any, changes should be made to the law. Speakers included former […]
The 2011 NFL Draft kicks off less than a week from today. In the meantime, be sure to check out the hard work Brandon Thorn has put into his mock draft, big board, and top 5 at each position. This past week, I was published in NYU’s IP and Entertainment Law Ledger. The article is […]
What: Panel – Ethics in Athlete Representation When: Friday, April 15 (6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.) Where: Suffolk University Law School This panel discussion will focus on the ethical dilemmas amateur athletes, agents, and Universities face in today’s society. The panel’s ultimate goal is to open up a dialogue that is aimed at curtailing unscrupulous agent […]
What: 2nd Annual Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law Spring Symposium When: March 24, 2011 Where: Eidman Courtroom and Joe Jamail Pavilion (at University of Texas School of Law) Title: “The Role of Agents in Sports & Entertainment Law” Agenda 9:00-9:30 am Registration and Coffee 9:30-10:00 am Opening Remarks 10:00-11:00 am Professor David Caudill, […]
I do not buy into the notion that the football agent profession is going to go from “dirty to sewage” based on the decertification of the NFLPA. However, there is no denying that anyone can hold himself out as a football agent now, since there is no longer a body in charge of licensing sports […]
Last year, Josh Luchs (the topic of George Dohrmann’s Sports Illustrated piece) revealed Luchs’ paying money and providing other benefits to recruits throughout his sports agent career. Luchs later lost his NFLPA Contract Advisor certification (which surprised no one), but it gave him a platform to speak about the inner workings of the pay-to-play system that many […]
*Cheerleaders may or may not be in attendance. What: University of Oregon School of Law Sports & Entertainment Law Conference 2011 Where: White Stag Building, Portland, Oregon (map) When: Friday, January 28, 2011 (8 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Schedule: 8:00am-9:00am: Registration 9:15am-10:30am: MMA: The Legal Aspects of an Emerging Sport Brad Darcy – Executive Director […]
An hour before the ball dropped on December 31, 2010, the Washington Post published a piece by Mark Giannotto titled, Virginia Tech football players work to avoid being distracted by agents. Tonight, the Virginia Tech Hokies will battle the Stanford Cardinal in the Orange Bowl, but as Giannotto pointed out, the game’s actors have been […]
On Thursday, November 11, 2010, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill released an update stating that it was ready to start releasing additional information about the investigation into its football program (the update is attached at the bottom of this post). The additional details included the following bullet-point: Mahlon Carey, Hakeem Nicks, Omar Brown, Vernon Davis, and […]