The NCAA has named Chris Termini as vice president of championships business affairs. With more than 15 years of experience in sports business and law, Termini has played a pivotal role in driving the NCAA’s external operations and strategic partnerships. In his new role, he will continue leading external operations while serving as the department’s…
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The Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) will be celebrating 50th year when its annual conference takes place May 15-17 in Nashville. But the organization is hardly stuck in its ways, relying on its reputation as the premier organization for sports lawyers. The upcoming conference is a great example of that. Proactively, the members organizing the conference…
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By Joel D. Buckman, Matthew E. Eisler, Peter S. Spivack, Benjamin Andrew Fleming, and Evan W. Guimond, of Hogan Lovells As the pending settlement in In re: College Athlete NIL Litigation, Case No. 4:20-CV-03919 (N.D. Cal) (the “House Settlement”) inches toward a final approval hearing before Judge Claudia Wilken on April 7th, a big question facing NCAA Division…
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Conference USA has announced the hire of Grant Newton as Senior Associate Commissioner/Chief Legal Officer. In his role, Newton will oversee all legal functions, including managing legal risks, litigation, regulatory, corporate, and legal NCAA matters, as well as outside counsel management. Prior to joining Conference USA, Newton practiced law at Vinson & Elkins LLP in…
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Montgomery McCracken has announced that that sports lawyer Kimberly L. Sachs has been elected to the firm’s partnership. Sachs is based in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Sachs focuses her practice on catastrophic sports injury defense and other complex litigation matters involving commercial disputes, products liability, and intellectual property. She earned her J.D. degree from Villanova University Charles Widger School…
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Seattle Mariners President of Business Operations Kevin Martinez has announced that Melissa Robertson has been promoted to Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the organization. Robertson will report directly to Martinez and joins the club’s senior leadership team. Fred Rivera, who had been serving as General Counsel, is transitioning to a Special Advisor role…
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(Editor’s note: The following is shared from Legal issues in Collegiate Athletics, a monthly periodical of Hackney Publications that features 10-12 such articles in each issue.) By Russell C. Garner Dianthia Ford-Kee was appointed as Mississippi Valley State University’s (MVSU) Athletic Director on November 18, 2013, and was the first woman appointed to the role…
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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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Nearly 40% of adult Americans say they’ve experienced some type of sport-related mistreatment in their lives, a new study shows. Mistreatment ranged from psychological and emotional to physical and sexual. But most people who reported mistreatment experienced more than one kind, the research found. And one-third of those who never even played organized sports reported…
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The EsportsTravel Summit is the world’s largest gathering of esports tournament and video-game event organizers and the only business conference focused on the travel side of the esports industry. Organized by the Northstar Meetings Group, the 2025 summit will be staged June 16–18, in Bloomington, Minnesota, a destination that has activated successful esports events at…
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