The 35th Annual (SLA) Sports Lawyers Association Conference will be held this May 14-16 in Chicago, Illinois. Registration is currently open and the conference agenda is officially posted. The event starts on Thursday May 14, and goes pretty much all day on Friday, and Saturday. The conference agenda includes some amazing speakers and covers very […]
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The NFL’s Junior Rule prohibits NFLPA advisors from communicating with a college athlete or any person in a position to influence that college athlete until said player is eligible for the NFL Draft. From April 10, 2007 until March 25, 2009, the prohibition lasted until an underclassman who applied for special eligibility was placed on […]
I absolutely love the Geico Kash logo. So Akron’s Pro Day was pushed back a week. At first, I was upset. Now, I realize that it may be a good thing. Our guys will continue to eat well and train, and hopefully the change of date will allow more scouts to attend the Pro Day. […]
I took a short vacation to Key West earlier this week, although as we all know, there is no vacation when you run a company. It was still very enjoyable to get away for a little bit, and I came back with a pretty decent tan. Akron’s Pro Day is this coming Wednesday. Dynasty represents […]
Still have a desire to sign up to become an NFLPA certified agent even after reading this post? Then hopefully you have been saving up some money to pay the certification fee, liability insurance,recruiting expenses, and eventually training/housing/food/etc expenses for your prospects. The first step is filing for certification and paying the $1,650 fee, which […]
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Shabbat Shalom: Friday Wrap-Up
New Years Eve is right around the corner. If you will be down in South Beach, have clients down in SoBe, or want to show a potential client a good time, I suggest you send them to the premier party on the beach this year. It will be going down at the various clubs at […]
This past Saturday, the slate of college football games included a few conference championship games and a couple of final regular season games. The season is wrapped up for college football programs, the only matches left to play being the bowl games. Plenty of NCAA programs have already begun to look to next year and […]
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Score One For The Little Guy
The NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expires after the 2010 season, and among other points up for debate–including revenue sharing and a rookie pay scale–the NFLPA may want to push for a new anti-doping policy whose disciplinary measures don’t effectively make League Commissioner Roger Goodell judge, jury and executioner all at once. U.S. District Judge […]
Whether Pat and Kevin Williams have a solid ground to sue the NFL or not over the four game suspension that has been levied on both players for violating the league’s steroids and related substances policy is not the main focus of this post. Instead, it is to advise all agents and athletes to take […]
A federal jury awarded over 2000 NFL retirees more than $28 million in damages last week after a three week trial in San Francisco in a class action lawsuit against the NFL Players Association (NFLPA). The lawsuit, filed by hall of fame cornerback Herb Adderley, claimed that the NFLPA actively excluded retired players from lucrative […]