What: American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries Annual Meeting When: October 8-10, 2009 Where: Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City I attempted to transcribe the schedule, but it is so long and rich with interesting topics and speakers, that I will just let you check out the brochure yourself. The brochure […]
Category: Sports Law
A few days ago, I received an email from Anastasios “Tassos” Kaburakis, Ph.D., Attorney at Law and Assistant Professor of Sport Law and Sport Management/Director of Sport Management Graduate Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He wanted to share the announcement of NCAA Division I Proposal 2009-22. The expectation is that the proposal will pass […]
School is about to start back up across the nation, which means that many law schools will start to announce their Sports Law Symposiums for the Fall and Spring semesters. Yesterday, I received an email about Marquette University’s 2009 Conference. Marquette is home of the National Sports Law Institute, one of, if not the, most […]
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Interview with Vered N. Yakovee
Guest contribution by Andrew Delaney, Director of Operations at the National Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Vered Yakovee is a dynamic individual. She is well-connected and well-versed in the sports and entertainment law fields. She teaches Sports Law at USC Gould School of Law, practices all aspects of sports law and insurance coverage law, and […]
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2011 Is Not That Far Away
The 2010 UF Sports Law Symposium is roughly only 5 months away, and there already is a lot of buzz about the future event amongst sports business and sports law professionals. We have already secured a plethora of amazing panelists, moderators, and our keynote speaker; names will be announced within the next few weeks. As […]
In case you did not know, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. If she is confirmed by Congress, Judge Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in the history of the U.S. The confirmation hearings have been publicized by every major media outlet, and while […]
On Friday of last week, the NCAA, along with “The Big Four” American professional sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL (side note: I recently heard a professor refer to them as the Big 3.5), filed a federal suit against the state of Delaware. The leagues + NCAA are concerned over Delaware’s new declaration to allow […]
The time has come. I have read article after article and received tweet after tweet about a couple of high profile lawsuits against the NCAA and Collegiate Licensing Company (one also includes Electronic Arts as a defendant), so it’s time to stop collecting tabs on my Firefox browser and address some of the issues involved […]
A New York state court has denied a defendant law firm’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by one of its attorneys, whose contract was not renewed when he tried and failed to establish a sports agent business on behalf of the defendant law firm. The court found specifically that while the defendants have established […]
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A Taxing Discussion
Admittedly, I am not an expert on tax issues, for that, you may have to visit a site similar to Good Service Tax (https://www.goodservicetax.com/) or a law firm that specializes in tax matters. My specialty in high school was math (perfect score on the SAT), but I ended up majoring in Political Science and have […]