Entertainment & Sports Law Symposium Friday, April 6, 2018 Presented by The Entertainment & Sports Law Society SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW The Entertainment & Sports Law Society would like to thank the following College of Law faculty for their assistance in planning this event: ESLS Faculty advisor, Professor Laura Lape Dean Dagenais Kristen Duggleby Deb O’Malley Kim Wolf Price Ian Brown And our sponsors: College of Law Corporate Law Society LexisNexus The Entertainment & Sports Law Symposium Presented by the Entertainment & Sports Law Society Syracuse University College of Law Friday, April 6, 2018 CLE Registration: 10:00-11:00 am Levy Atrium Welcome and Opening Remarks: 11:00 am Gray Ceremonial Courtroom Panel 1: 11:15 am- 12:30 pm Gray Ceremonial Courtroom Maximizing the attorney-agent’s ability to advertise and use social media while maintaining compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct. Jodi Balsam: Law Professor, Brooklyn Law School Andrew Lustigman: Partner at Olshan, Frome, Wolosky Miles Welo: Counsel at Mansour Gavin, COO of GSM & NFLPA Certified Agent 1.5 credits, Ethics and Professionalism Lunch: 12:30-1:15 pm Levy Atrium Panel 2: 1:25- 2:40 pm Gray Ceremonial Courtroom Current issues intellectual property issues facing the entertainment industry. Laura Lape: Law Professor, Syracuse University College of Law Matthew Ganas: Associate at DLA Piper Jaia Thomas: Founder of the Law Office of Jaia Thomas 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Practice Panel 3: 2:45-4:00 pm Gray Ceremonial Courtroom Assessing the fall out from the NCAA Basketball FBI Investigation: The future of the amateurism rule and the antitrust implications. Justin DiTolla: Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance Richard Katz: President & CEO, KMG Sports Management Justin Sievert: Founding Partner of Sievert Werly 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Practice Key note address: 4:10-5:00 pm Gray Ceremonial Courtroom Building and maintaining the relationship between in-house and outside counsel. Gregg Brandon (L’01): General Counsel at the Buffalo Bills Joseph Hanna: Partner at Goldberg Segalla 1 credit, Law Practice Management Panels will be moderated by alumnus, Kevin Belbey (L’16). *Panel times and speakers are subject to change. Panel 1: Jodi S. Balsam Jodi S. Balsam is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director of Externship Programs at the Brooklyn Law School. Among her teaching interests are Sports Law, Professional Responsibility, the Externship Seminar, and negotiation and other lawyering skills. She is the faculty advisor to the Brooklyn Entertainment and Sports Law Society, which voted her 2016 Professor of the Year, and she is chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Sports. Professor Balsam has also taught courses in Sports Law and Sports Contracts at New York University, New York Law School, and Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. She is a co-author of the upcoming sixth edition of Weiler Robert's Sports and the Law, the leading law school casebook in the field. Before joining academia, Professor Balsam was the National Football League's Counsel for Operations and Litigation, where she managed litigation in all areas of law, oversaw a variety of policy and operational matters, negotiated and drafted contracts for League special events including the Super Bowl, and administered the League's internal dispute resolution process and compliance program. She began her practice career as a litigation attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, representing primarily sports and entertainment clients in antitrust matters and complex commercial litigation. She has also served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Charles Brieant of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Counsel to the Clerk of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and now sits on the Court's Attorney Advisory Committee on Local Rules. Professor Balsam has presented at many sports law conferences and symposia, and frequently appears in the media on legal issues in sports being seen on ESPN, MSNBC, and quoted in the New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg/Businessweek, and CBS Moneywatch. Andrew B. Lustigman Andrew B. Lustigman is a partner at Olshan Law representing marketers, advertisers, agencies, and suppliers in connection with the legal aspects of their advertising and promotional marketing businesses. He is a member of the Olshan Executive Committee and is Chair of the firm's Advertising, Marketing, and Promotion's group. Leveraging his extensive experience in advertising, marketing and promotions, Andrew counsels domestic and international clients regarding a broad range of matters, including the clearance of advertising and marketing materials, the structuring of sweepstakes, games or skill, and other contests, the development of social media programs and direct marketing campaigns from a compliance standpoint, and the resolution of regulatory, competitor, intellectual property and privacy matters. According to Chambers USA, clients report, "he's the one guy in the industry I'd go to. Every single issue in advertising, compliance, litigation, whatever – he does it all, and he does it well." Andy is also noted as "a renowned transactional lawyer who is also adept in dispute resolution," noting that he "gives excellent advice" and "helps me find creative solutions." A significant portion of Andy's practice involves a review of advertising and promotional campaigns to help ensure compliance with substantiation requirements and relevant legal standards. He provides advice or campaigns across all media channels – Internet, television, print, radio, direct mail, mobile, telemarketing, and other electronic media, as well as social media platforms. Andy regularly appears on television, radio, and in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, National Law Journal, Inside Counsel, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Mobile Marketer, Luxury Daily, and Response discussing important new cases and trends that advertisers and marketers need to know. He also contributes to the Brand Activation Association/Promotion Marketing Association's Promotion Marketing Law treatise and various American Bar Association publications. He frequently speaks on advertising and promotional market law topics throughout the country. Miles Welo Miles Welo is an attorney at Mansour Gavin LPA and a certified NFLPA Contract Advisor at Game Sports Management and Media. As an attorney, Miles represents clients on a broad range of issues related to business, athletics, estate planning, litigation, IP, and music. As a Contract Advisor, Miles focuses on representing NFL players in their contract negotiations, marketing negotiations, pre-draft training, and general business transactions. Miles also counsels football coaches in their professional and personal capacities. Miles completed the Great Lakes Sports and Entertainment Law Academy in 2011, and served as the Vice President of the Entertainment and Sports Law Association at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and received his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he graduated cum laude. Miles has an extensive background in football, including time that he served as an assistant football coach at a Division II affiliated Notre Dame College. Miles maintains his connection to coaching as he now serves as an assistant football coach at Benedictine High School in Cleveland, Ohio. Panel 2: Laura Lape Professor Laura Lape graduated law school with the highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She practiced as an associate in the probate department at a leading Boston law firm before beginning a teaching career. She taught at Temple University and at UNC at Chapel Hill before coming to Syracuse. Professor Lape focuses her writing on copyright law and teaches courses in copyright, property, and intellectual property. Her research interests lie mainly in the area of copyright law. Matthew Ganas Matthew Ganas has a wide range of intellectual property and complex commercial litigation experience the areas of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, antitrust and right of publicity law. Matthew regularly represents medical device manufacturers in offensive and defensive patent infringement matters involving a variety of technologies, including ultrasonic and advanced bipolar surgical instruments and cardiovascular interventional guidewires. He has also represented multinational corporations in the sports, media and entertainment, fashion and apparel, IT and software solutions and medical device industries in copyright infringement, trademark infringement, false advertising and trade secret misappropriation litigation. Matthew also provides counselling and clearance advice to multimedia and fashion industry clients concerning copyright, trademark, fair use, First Amendment, defamation and right of publicity issues in connection with online print and video publications, as well as corporate- sponsored social media content. He has published a number of articles involving various sports issues, publicity claims, and copyright infringement. He was the recipient of NYU Law School’s Larry Fleisher Memorial Foundation Prize for extraordinary achievement in the are of Sports and Entertainment Law, primarily due to his scholarship focused on the 2011 NFL lockout and ensuing player-initiated antitrust litigation. His paper,