100lawfirms.com is portal that serves as a resource for those in need of experienced and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. Hackney Publications announced today the second annual “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” a portal that serves as a resource for those in need of experienced…
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The Los Angeles Dodgers have hired Damon Jones as vice president, assistant general manager and baseball legal counsel. Jones joins the Dodgers after spending the last two seasons as general counsel for the Washington Football Team. He has over 20 years of experience as a sports, entertainment and media attorney, including 13 seasons with the…
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The Sports Law Committee for the Chicago Bar Association will host a webinar on January 20 at 12:15 CST addressing “The Hot Stove: Inside Baseball’s Busy Legal Offseason.” The details follow: SPEAKER(S)/ORGANIZATION: Prof. Robert Jarvis, Nova Southeastern University Broad College of Law; (jarvisb@nova.edu) Prof. Michael LeRoy, University of Illinois College of Law; (mhl@illinois.edu) Jeremy…
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By Gregg E. Clifton & Bernard G. Dennis III, of Jackson Lewis PC Major League Baseball (MLB) exercised its legal right and remedy guaranteed pursuant to current federal labor laws when it commenced a lockout of its players shortly after the five-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association…
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Beneficiaries of the Alert include both the private sector and higher education, where professors use the Alert with thousands of sports law students. As Hackney Publications closes in on the completion of its 18th year of publishing Sports Litigation Alert, publisher Holt Hackney is especially proud of the last two issues. “We’re touching on every…
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As students head back to school this fall, sports medicine physicians with Loyola Medicine say the risk of COVID-19 exposure among student athletes is low. According to Nathaniel Jones, MD, a sports medicine physician for Loyola Medicine, “Indoor contact sports and football see slightly increased risk of transmission, but the overall risk remains minimal, and…
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The University of West Florida (UWF, Pensacola, FL) has announced that Gil Fried has joined the faculty in the College of Education and Professional Studies (CEPS), starting in the fall 2021 semester. Professor Fried will not just teach sport management courses, but will also Chair the Administration & Law Department, which includes sport management, construction…
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Hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, announced last month that new tools have been added to Sports Litigation Alert (Alert), a periodical that has been used in sports law classrooms for more than 15 years, which will make it even more useful for professors and their college students. Shortly thereafter, several…
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Sports lawyer Robert Fountain has been named corporate counsel of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. Fountain, a Stetson University College of Law graduate, leaves behind a position as associate general counsel for the United Soccer League, where he spent the previous ten months. From 2014 to the summer of 2020, Fountain was an attorney for…
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By Jordan Kobritz Baseball’s Unwritten Rules reared their uninterpretable and oftentimes ugly head last week. With his team leading, 15-4, in the top of the ninth inning, White Sox manager Tony La Russa claims he gave the take sign to Yermin Mercedes on a 3-0 pitch. The bases were loaded as Willians Astudillo, a position…
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