What: Duke Sports and Entertainment Law Society’s Fourth Annual Symposium When: Friday, February 7, 2014 Schedule 8:30 – 9:00 Registration Breakfast 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome Remarks 9:05 – 9:50 The Film Industry in the South Rep. Paul Luebke (N.C. State Rep., Durham County) C. Anthony Mulrain (Gordon & Reese, Atlanta) Thomas Varnum (Brooks Pierce, Wilmington) Alonzo […]
What: Panel Discussion about the business of college sports and the NCAA’s treatment of amateur athletes. Where: Harvard Law School (Hauser Hall Room 102, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138) When: Thursday, October 31, 2013 (5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.) The discussion will feature excerpts from the EPIX original documentary, Schooled: The Price of College Sports. […]
What: Suffolk University Law School Symposium: Compensation, Commercialization, and Labor Issues in NCAA Div. I Sports When: Thursday October 24, 2013 (6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.) Where: Suffolk University Law School (120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108) The discussion will focus several issues facing the NCAA, including potential compensation for student-athletes in revenue generating sports, the O’Bannon class action anti-trust lawsuit […]
Boston College linebacker Nick Clancy has signed with NFLPA Contract Advisor Ken Sarnoff. Warren Zola, Assistant Dean, Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, broke the news on Twitter. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/WarrenKZola/status/282881286144663556″] Sarnoff was formerly an employee of Lagardère Unlimited, and prior to that he was with Gaylord Sports (later purchased by Lagardère). Earlier this year, Sarnoff left Lagardère and his […]
On November 1, 2011, a group of individuals who are tied to college sports in a variety of ways will converge in Washington D.C. to participate in a roundtable discussion titled, Hypocrisy or Hype? The Impacts of Back-Room Deals, Payoffs, and Scandals in American Collegiate Student Athletics. The roundtable has been put together by U.S. […]
I am looking forward to seeing my friend Warren Zola at the New York Law School Sports Law Symposium coming up on November 4, 2011, and I was thrilled to see the positive press that he recently received in an article titled, At some schools, advisers help navigate going pro, which was picked up by newspapers across […]
I will be attending and speaking at this symposium, but will be leaving roughly half way through in order to catch a flight to Arizona for Arizona State’s 2nd Annual Conference On Sports & Entertainment Law. If you are in New York during the event, I hope that you are able to stop by during […]