The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) will hold its annual meeting – in person – at the Renaissance Midtown Hotel in Atlanta on February 23-26, 2022. The Association, which represents sports law professors typically teaching at the undergraduate level, went virtual with its 2021 conference because of COVID. Conference events include 70 academic presentations/posters…
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Sports lawyer Justin Sievert has joined the Jacksonville Jaguars as their new general counsel. Sievert, previously the chair of the sports and gaming practice at Vela Wood, has reportedly replaced Jaguars general counsel Lauren Strackbine, who joined the San Jose Sharks of the NHL last month as that team’s deputy general counsel. News reports suggested…
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The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest professional lacrosse property in the world, has continued its “commitment to its foundational pillars of heritage, inclusion and service with the unveiling of NLL Unites, the league’s umbrella social responsibility program.” NLL Unites will “combine the efforts of the league, teams, players and partners to promote each of…
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Major League Rugby (MLR) has announced the hire of Ramy Morad as general counsel for the nasceant league, which is in expansion mode. Morad, who will be based in Dallas, reportedly is replacing Peter Moore, a former senior partner at Polsinelli. Moore is now part of Robinson, Waters & O’Dorisio in Denver. Morad was previously…
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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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(From the pages of Sports Litigation Alert) By William J. Robers, of Sparks Willson, P.C. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest court to decide that interscholastic basketball officials are not “employees” of either the assigning organization or the schools. Girard v. International Association of Approved Basketball Officials, Inc. et al., 20-981-cv (2d…
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Hogan Lovells, which boasts one of the leading sports practices in the legal industry, advised USA Cricket on its successful bid to co-host the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup in 2024. The event is historic in that it will be the first global cricket tournament to be staged in the United States.…
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By Hannah Dewey The LEAD1 Association (“LEAD1”), which represents the athletics directors of the 130-member schools of the Football Bowl Subdivision (“FBS”), recently surveyed approximately 100 of its FBS athletics directors on whether the employment status of college athletes would impact funding of non-revenue sports. Of the LEAD1 athletics directors surveyed, more than 90 percent…
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Bruce B. Siegal, who joined Greenspoon Marder in its Atlanta office over the summer as of counsel in its Entertainment, Media & Technology Industry Group, will be an adjunct professor of sports law this spring at Georgia Institute of Technology. Siegal, who has more than 30 years of sports industry and intellectual property experience, focuses on…
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By Chris Deubert On October 6, 2021, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York, dismissed a lawsuit brought by one basketball agent, David Lee, against another, Raymond Brothers, for allegedly stealing Lee’s client. Lee v. Raymond Brothers, 21-cv-4213, 2021 WL 4652336 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 6, 2021). In so doing, the court added to a body of…
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