This Friday: Charleston Sports Law Symposium

Several of our contributors, including Warren Zola and Timothy Liam Epstein, will be featured panelists at Charleston Law School's Sports Law Symposium next Friday, January 30, 2015. Titled "Under Further Review: A Legal Look at the World of Sports," this one-day conference includes several timely panel discussions on, among other things, NCAA reform and the future of college athletics, concussions, injuries and medico-legal issues in sports, and the interplay between professional sports league discipline and the due process rights of players and owners. Warren Zola will be on two panels (including the one on NCAA reform), and is moderating the panel titled "League Scandals: Disciplinary Powers and Due Process, which features Chicago-based sports law attorney Scott Andreson, sports business and tax expert Robert Raiola, and me as panelists. The keynote speaker of the symposium is Megha Parekh, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. For more information about the symposium, including how to register, click here. Hope to see you next Friday.

Under Further Review:
A Legal Look at the World of Sports

January 30, 2015
Charleston Music Hall, 37 John Street
The Seventh Annual Law & Society Symposium
Co-Sponsored by the Charleston Law Review and the Richard W. Riley Institute of
Government, Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University

Keynote Address
Megha Parekh

Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Jacksonville Jaguars

Panel One

Reform in College Athletics and
the Future of the NCAA

Warren Zola, Chair, Boston College's Professional Sports Counseling Panel & Executive Director of the Office of Corporate and Government Affairs

Angela Littlejohn, Legal Advisor, Furman University

Timothy Liam Epstein, Partner, SmithAmundsen

Panel Two

Concussions, Injuries, and
Medico-Legal Issues in Sports

H. Hunt Batjer, M.D., Former Co-Chair, NFL's Head, Neck, and Spine Committee

David Geier, Jr., M.D., Director, East Cooper Sports Medicine

Timothy Liam Epstein, Partner, SmithAmundsen

Panel Three

League Scandals: 
Disciplinary Powers and Due Process

Daniel Wallach, Shareholder, Becker & Poliakoff

Scott Andresen, Founder, Andresen & Associates P.C.

Robert Raiola, C.P.A., Sports and Entertainment Group Manager, O'Connor Davies LLP