(Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in full in Sports Litigation Alert. To see the full article, please subscribe to the Alert.) By Kevin Brown, of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP The sports world is under attack again for its text marketing tactics directed to consumers. This time the target is Tampa Bay Sports…
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Carla Varriale, a well known sports lawyer and partner at Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale, recently authored a piece in the Michigan State International Law Review about MMA fighters and their prospects for unionization. Varriale began by noting that one of her reasons for writing the article is that the sport of mixed martial arts…
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(Editor’s Note: The following was written by Drew Berube, a rising third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law. The full article appears in Professional Sports and the Law.) On April 4, 2019, the annual University of Miami School of Law, Global Entertainment and Sports Law + Industry Conference, hosted a panel…
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(Editor’s Note: The following appeared in Sports Litigation Alert. Subscribe to the Alert to see more articles like this one.) A federal judge from the District of Minnesota has denied a CPA firm’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by NBA Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett, alleging professional malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, and aiding and…
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The early bird discount for the Annual Conference for the Sports Lawyers Association (https://www.sportslaw.org/), set for May 16-18 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, is about to expire. If you haven’t already registered, go here to sign up: https://www.sportslaw.org/conferences/2019conf/registration/index.cfm The conference, which is consistently the must-attend gathering of sports lawyers each year, is…
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Foley & Lardner LLP has announced that Bobby Sharma has joined the firm as special adviser to its Sports Industry Team. He will be based in the New York office. Sharma comes to Foley with nearly 20 years of sports industry experience, including serving as VP & General Counsel of the NBA Development League, as…
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Hackney Publications has announced that it has lowered the price of the Journal of NCAA Compliance to $49 for individual subscriptions as a way to make the publication more affordable for compliance professionals. The cost for institutions that want two subscriptions will be $98, while three subscriptions will be $147. Full department-wide and library subscription…
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Days after Bradley University (BU) unceremoniously banned Peoria Journal Star (PJS) men’s basketball beat writer Dave Reynolds from participating in a media event for the team’s upcoming NCAA tournament appearance, Bradley University and its president — sports law icon Gary Roberts — sought to correct a wrong and diffuse matters. Here’s what led up to the controversy:…
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The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) held a successful annual conference last month in Philadelphia before more than a hundred members. As its tradition, SRLA made several award presentations, the most prominent of which where the Betty van der Smissen Leadership Award to Professor John Grady of the University of South Carolina and the…
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On April 12, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Entertainment and Sports Law Association will host its 9th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium. Every year, C-M Law’s ESLA hosts a Spring Symposium in which attorneys and professionals from around the country discuss emerging legal topics and developments in the entertainment and sports law industry. In its 9th…
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