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Barnes & Thornburg Launches University and Professional Athletics Group

October 22, 2019

Barnes & Thornburg has joined forces with sports industry veterans, E.T. “Skip” Prince and Steve Pederson, to launch a new University and Professional Athletics practice. Joining the firm’s experienced athletics industry attorneys, Prince and Pederson bring decades of experience overseeing, managing, and providing consultation to collegiate athletic departments and conferences, professional teams and leagues, and…
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Utah’s Highest Court Creates Its Own Version of a Contact Sports Exception

August 7, 2019

The Supreme Court of Utah took a novel approach to “exceptions to liability arising out of sports injuries” when it affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the claim of an injured basketball player who sued another basketball player whose actions led to his injury. In essence, the high court adopted its own version of…
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10 Years and Running – Sports Litigation Alert Is Being Used More Than Ever in Sports Law Classroom

July 4, 2019

With the fall semester, Sports Litigation Alert celebrates its tenth year of being a staple in the Sports Law classroom, where professors and instructors use it as a replacement for expensive textbooks, or at least a supplement for the textbook, which is frequently dated by the time it is published. For background purposes, the Alert…
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Drake Group Says the NCAA Changing Transfer Waiver Provisions Is Not Fair to the College Athlete

July 2, 2019

(Editor’s Note: The following is shared by the Drake Group, an advocacy group for reform of the NCAA) Last week the NCAA Division I Council approved new, more stringent criteria to determine whether athletes in five sports (football, men’s and women’s basketball, ice hockey and baseball) can transfer with eligibility waivers to compete immediately upon…
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Jackson Lewis Sponsors Title IX Alert, a Timely and Complimentary Newsletter

June 2, 2019

Jackson Lewis P.C. announced today its sponsorship of Title IX Alert, a newsletter produced by Hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals. Title IX Alert is the one-stop publication for news, case summaries, articles, and strategies concerning Title IX and Collegiate Athletics. The publication offers insight into recent cases, as well as…
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Early Bird Discount about to End for Sports Lawyers Association Conference in Phoenix May 16-18

April 26, 2019

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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SRLA Honors Sports Law Professors at Annual Conference

March 31, 2019

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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Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s 9th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium Scheduled for Friday, April 12, 2019

March 26, 2019

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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2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium Scheduled for Monday, April 1, 2019

March 18, 2019

On April 1, the Harvard Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law and the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law are hosting the 2019 Harvard Sports Law Symposium. An annual event, the Symposium is intended to bring together sports industry—focused practitioners, academics, and students for meaningful discussions on the most pressing business and legal issues in the…
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Claims of Financial Exigency & Roster Management Practices Under Scrutiny in Portz v. St. Cloud State University

February 28, 2019

(The following article was written by Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer for Hackney Publications & Professor, Department of Sport Management, Drexel University, ejs95@drexel.edu) In March of 2016, St. Cloud State University (SCSU) administrators announced an athletics reorganization plan that included elimination of the men’s cross country and track and field teams (both indoor and…
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