Marissa Meli has been promoted to Associate General Counsel of the Green Bay Packers. Meli, a Wisconsin native, joined the Packers almost five years ago as the team’s Corporate Transactions Counsel. Prior to that, she spent two years as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. Meli received her JD from the University of…
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From the NFL: The National Football League announced today that it has signed long-term agreements with media partners Amazon, CBS, ESPN/ABC, FOX, and NBC for the distribution of NFL games, the industry’s most valuable content, over television and digital platforms, as well as additional media rights. With these agreements, the NFL has expanded its digital…
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Hackney Publications announced today the launch of “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 and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. The firms are listed alphabetically, an ode to the difficulty in actually ranking such…
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The Sports and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) will host a virtual annual conference February 23-26 with Kenneth L. Shropshire, CEO of Global Sport Institute and the Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport at Arizona State University, serving as the keynote speaker. The primary mission of SRLA, which serves academicians and practitioners in private and public…
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The Associated Press has reported that the PGA of America, the organization representing golf’s teaching professionals, has opted out of its plans to host the 2022 PGA Championships at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey. “We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” Seth Waugh, the CEO of the PGA of America,…
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The Minnesota Vikings have promoted Karin Nelsen to Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer. Its has been a meteoric rise for Nelson, who joined the NFL team five years ago after stints at Cargill Inc. (Minnesota’s largest private company), Larkin Hoffman, and as a CPA at Touche Ross. At the time of her initial…
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As part of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s “commitment to equality for all U.S. Soccer senior National Team players,” U.S. Soccer has reached an agreement with the U.S. Women’s National Team to resolve the non-compensation related claims raised in current litigation between the USWNT players and U.S. Soccer. Earlier today, the parties filed in court a…
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BSE Global – which manages and operates Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets, its NBA G League team, the Long Island Nets, and its NBA 2K League affiliate (NetsGC) – will host a webinar on November 11, starting at 5 p.m. EST, entitled a Conversation on Sports and the Law Headlining the list of speakers are…
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The National Sports Law Institute’s Annual Fall conference will take place online on Microsoft Teams on Friday, October 16, 2020. This year’s conference will focus on Perspectives from a Sports Law Faculty, and feature our own Sports Law Program faculty members, many who are members of this association, along with a few other alums, discussing…
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The NFL named Jonathan Beane, an attorney, as its Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, effective September 8. Jonathan brings over 20 years of experience as a diversity practitioner with large organizations. In this role, Jonathan will spearhead the league’s overarching diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, and will collaborate with senior leadership…
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