The Miami Marlins have expanded their partnership with Werner, Hoffman, Greig & Garcia, naming the Florida-based firm the team’s Official Law Firm and the presenting sponsor of Marlins.TV beginning with the 2026 season. The extended agreement builds on a relationship that has grown over the past two seasons and broadens the firm’s presence across the club’s media, ballpark…
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By Anna Giambelluca, Esq. Sports law presents a built-in teaching challenge. The field itself evolves quickly—courts are almost constantly addressing questions about athlete rights, institutional liability, gender equity, labor relations, and league authority. Yet the primary teaching tool in many classrooms remains the textbook, which is effectively frozen in time at the moment it is…
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The NFL, in collaboration with the NFLPA, through their respective appointed biomechanical experts, coordinated extensive laboratory research to evaluate which helmets best reduce head impact magnitude. The results of the laboratory tests, announced today, are displayed on the poster below and shared with NFL players, in addition to club medical, training, coaching and equipment staffs…
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Singapore Management University (SMU) Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) has successfully defended its title at the Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM). In late April, SMU won LawInSport’s 7th annual international moot competition held at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The win on 24 April is SMU’s second consecutive SLAM championship,…
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By Anna Giambelluca, Esq. The Friday lunch at this year’s Sports Lawyers Association Annual Conference will feature a conversation with Kevin Warren, moderated by former SLA president Bobby Hacker as part of the Leadership Series. The session is expected to provide a substantive discussion on how legal training can inform leadership across multiple sectors of…
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(Editor’s Note: The following is reprinted from NIL Institutional Report.) By Mallory Gault Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights have transformed the world of college athletics and has allowed student-athletes the opportunities to profit off their personal brand, yet those opportunities are not available to all student-athletes. Keith Miller, vice president at Influxer, spoke about…
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U.S. Bank has hired former NFL player and veteran financial professional Steven Israel as a wealth management consultant, expanding its efforts to serve professional athletes following the bank’s recent partnership with the National Football League. Israel will serve as an ambassador in U.S. Bank’s athlete-focused banking and wealth management initiatives, helping professional athletes navigate financial…
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England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed senior sports lawyer Catherine Beloff as its new general counsel. Beloff will join the ECB in September and will oversee legal strategy for the governing body’s commercial, governance, regulatory and litigation matters. She will also join the ECB’s executive leadership group. Beloff arrives after a decade with the…
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(Editor’s Note: The following is shared from the pages of the April issue of Legal Issues in Collegiate Athletics.) Bond Schoeneck & King (BSK) is a preeminent law firm in collegiate athletics, where its reputation quite naturally precedes itself. That reputation was decades in the making, nurtured primarily by two high-profile sports lawyers – Mike…
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A new study warns that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is reshaping how law firms train junior lawyers, raising concerns about the long-term development of legal judgment and expertise. The report, The AI Leadership Challenge in Law, finds that automation is replacing many of the repetitive tasks—such as document review, due diligence and legal…
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