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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

New York Law School's Sports Law Symposium

Paul Haberman and I will be panelists at this year's New York Law School Sports Law Symposium on Monday, April 5. It will be an all-day event and should be excellent. Matthew Corwin, Alycia Hucabey, and Lauren Friedberg have done a great job organizing it. Here are some details:

New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy and the Media Entertainment Sports Law Association present it's first Sports Law Symposium. The event will be held on Monday, April 5, 2010. There will be panels throughout the day and a networking reception at 6:15 pm.

Location:
Event Center (W201)
New York Law School
185 W. Broadway
New York, NY 10013

Panels for the day include:

12:45-1:45: Legal Issues in Running a Professional Sports League and Stadium

Jessica Berman (Associate Counsel, NHL)
Mark Stefanacci
(Chief Operating Officer & Legal Counsel, NJ Sports Exposition Authority)
Sue Cohig (Senior Vice President, NHL Club Consulting & Services NHL, NYLS alum)

2:00-3:15: Hot Topics in Sports

Jon Wertheim (Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated)
Michael McCann (SI Legal Analyst/Vermont Law School Professor)
Matthew Pace – (Sports Lawyer, Herrick, Feinstein)
Robert Boland (Professor of Sports Management at NYU, columnist at the National Football Post, and Counsel to the coaching representation firm Premier Stinson Sports)

3:30-4:45: Breaking into the Sports Industry

David Soskin (Assistant Counsel, ESPN, NYLS alum)
Paul Haberman (Sports Lawyer and NYCLA Sports Committee Chair)
Robert Boland (Professor of Sports Management at NYU, columnist at the National Football Post, and Counsel to the coaching representation firm Premier Stinson Sports)
Luis Barragan (Director of Programming, HBO Sports)
Gabe Feldman (Tulane Law School Professor)

5:00-6:15: Licensing and Endorsement Deals in Professional Sports

Michael McCann (SI Legal Analyst/Vermont Law School Professor)
Betsy Goff (previously former executive ABC, VP of ESPN, and IMG legal)
Robert Freeman (Sports Lawyer, Proskauer)
Kenneth Gordon (Counsel, ESPN)
David Mayer (Assistant Counsel, ESPN)
Gabe Feldman (Tulane Law School Professor)

6:15-7:15: Networking Reception in the Event Space

Please RSVP to Naomi.Allen@nyls.edu by March 31st

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