(Editor’s Note: What follows is an article republished from Sports Litigation Alert, which publishes every two weeks, featuring five case summaries and 12 to 16 articles. Subscribers have access to a searchable archive of more than 6,000 articles) By Daniel A. Cohen,[1] Jennifer L. F. Cohen[2] and Elizabeth G. Hodges[3] For intellectual property attorneys,…
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Professors use Sports Litigation Alert in the classroom primarily to supplement textbooks with current, real-world case studies, fostering better in-class discussion and allowing students to apply legal concepts to up-to-date issues. Key benefits for a professor include: Currency of Information: Textbooks can quickly become outdated in the fast-moving field of sports law. The bi-weekly Alert provides timely summaries…
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On November 6, 2025, Ropes & Gray hosted the Sports Lawyers Association’s 2025 Fall Symposium in the firm’s London office. This year’s symposium was the first to be held in Europe, and it adopted the theme “The Globalization of Sports,” exploring how international trends are shaping the future of sports law around the world. London office managing…
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A startup from Dublin, Ireland, believes the answer to that question is an emphatic, “Yes!” KineMo uses AI to accurately track and quantify in 3D the angles of an individual’s joints during exercise and rehabilitation, using video from any single camera. They believe that understanding and objectively measuring the movement competency of an athlete during…
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O’Melveny advised TaylorMade Golf Company on its international expansion with the development of The Kingdom at The Grove, a customer-facing, brand immersion experience located within a five-star hotel and golf resort in the outskirts of London, England. The new facility will open in spring 2026. The Kingdom at The Grove will include three hitting bays,…
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Several trademark applications filed this spring by former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, were refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), according to public records. The applications were for phrases including “Do Your Job (Bill’s Version),” “Ignore the Noise (Bill’s Version),” “No Days Off (Bill’s Version),” and…
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Hackney Publications Senior Writer Gary Chester will present a 6-hour “Hot Topics in Sports Law” seminar on Friday, May 9, at 9 a.m. at the Minnesota CLE Conference Center in Minneapolis. Topics will include tort law, Title IX, IP law in sports, governance of high school sports, and NIL and the future of college sports.…
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Hackney Publications announced today that it has published the fifth annual “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” a portal that serves as a resource for those in the sports industry who need experienced and capable legal counsel. The law firms are listed alphabetically, a testament to the difficulty in actually…
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SportsCastr Inc. (D/B/A PANDA Interactive), a sports streaming and betting technology company, has announced that it has filed amended complaints against Genius Sports (NYSE: GENI) and Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD), adding parallel antitrust claims to its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit. The complaint asserts that both Defendants have unlawfully tied access to the official sports data they…
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Hackney Publications announced today a client referral program, leveraging 25 years of editing and publishing experience in the sports law field to pair potential legal clients with sports lawyers. Those “friends of Hackney Publications,” defined as subscribers and sponsors, will receive notification when a potential legal client reaches out through Sportslawexpert.com (https://sportslawexpert.com/seeking-a-sports-lawyer/) as well as…
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