2010 Sports Law Symposium Preview
Update: We are happy to announce that the Symposium has received Continuing Legal Education Course Credit Approval from the Florida Bar. Maximum Credit = 3.50 C.L.E.R. Maximum Certification Credit = 1.00 Business Litigation and 1.00 Labor and Employment.
(For information about our successful 2009 Symposium, please click here.)
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2010 will be a very important year for each of the big American professional sports leagues. The NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement ("CBA") is set to expire at the end of the 2010 season, the NBA CBA expires after its 2010/11 seasons, and the MLB has until December, 11, 2011 before the current CBA expires. Thus, this year will be a crucial period full of negotiations between the owners and players' associations in each sport. Instead of permitting the general public to merely read one-sided opinions about existing terms that should be modified or new terms that should be added to these agreements, we would like to bring the issues to the forefront of academia by establishing a group of intellectuals to bargain collectively in Gainesville, Florida and engage in a thoughtful discourse about why CBAs exist, how they help players/owners, key terms that will be argued, etc. The date of the Symposium set for Friday, January 29, 2010. |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Harvey Schiller
Closing Speaker: Donald M. Fehr
Tentative Panels and Participants
MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement
Moderator: Thomas Hurst
Panelists: Marc Edelman, Gabe Feldman, Bob Ruxin, Nick Ohanesian, Bryan Swalley
NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement
Moderator: Jeffrey Harrison
Panelists:
Ralph Cindrich, Andrew Brandt, J.I. Halsell, Ryan Morgan, Glenn Schwartzman, J. Richard Burnoski
NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement
Moderator: Mark Fenster
Panelists: Marc Isenberg, Michael McCann, Robert Friedrich, Alan Milstein, Patrick Muldowney
Press
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January 17, 2010 - Take A Peck
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January 13, 2010 - Sports Agent and Sports Lawyer Blog
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January 12, 2010 - The Business of Sports