Sports Lawyers Association Board of Directors
Biographical Sketches and Resumes

Anthony J. Agnone

Jared Bartie

A seasoned executive with 13 years of sports and entertainment industry experience, Bartie joined the NBA in September 2005 and spent time consulting and advising NBA teams on improving their overall business operations and revenue generating functions. NBA teams have counted on his business counsel regarding strategies to enhance and improve team branding, marketing, advertising, ticket and sponsorship sales, game entertainment, customer service, customer retention, and community outreach initiatives. Prior to joining the NBA, Bartie served as General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer of the United States Tennis Association. Bartie oversaw all legal and compliance matters and provided strategic business counsel on behalf of the USTA as well as the USTA National Tennis Center, and the USTA Tennis & Education Foundation.

Before joining the USTA, Bartie served as Vice President of New Business Development for Radio City Entertainment. He was instrumental in the launch of the XFL, serving as Vice President of Legal Affairs, and has also held senior legal positions with World Wrestling Entertainment, Dennis Publishing (publisher of Maxim Magazine), Scholastic and Black Entertainment Television. Bartie began his career as an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP.

Bartie received a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University. He and his wife, Wendy, live in the Charlotte area.

Marivonne Basten

Prior to joining IMG, Ms. Basten was General Counsel for Advantage International (now Octagon). She is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Basten's community and industry involvement includes serving on the Boards of the Sports Lawyers Association, Women in Sports and Events, and PowerPlay NYC, a not-for-profit, which provides sports and leadership training for underserved girls in the five boroughs of New York City.

Richard A. Berthelsen

1974 to Present:
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
2021 L Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

Hired as full time legal counsel and principal assistant to the NFLPA Executive Director in May of 1972; appointed NFLPA General Counsel in 1983. NFLPA work experience includes:

1. Direct participant in negotiation and drafting of NFL collective bargaining agreements in 1977, 1982, and 1993;

2. Director of NFLPA Legal Department, supervisor of seven-person legal staff;

3. Representing NFLPA and individual NFL players in over 200 grievance arbitrations;

4. Counsel for NFLPA in National Labor Relations Board proceedings, including 42-day hearing in 1975 concerning 17 unfair labor practice charges against NFL clubs, five discrimination cases filed by union officers, and other cases arising out of 1982 and 1987 player strikes.

5. Principal NFLPA advisor to players and agents for individual contract negotiations with NFL clubs;

6. Negotiating and drafting player group licensing agreements and special events contracts;

7. Establishment of NFLPA Workers Compensation Panel of Attorneys in NFL team cities;

8. Vice President and Board member of Professional Athletes Federal Credit Union (PACFU), the first federally chartered credit union for professional athletes;

9. Architect of NFLPA Agent Regulation System; and

10. Negotiator of Collective Bargaining Agreement for International Association of Track and Field Professionals, 1976.

1983 to 1991:
General Counsel
MAJOR INDOOR SOCCER LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
2021 L Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

Principal responsibilities were as labor counsel and chief negotiator of collective bargaining agreements for MISL players.

1982 to 1986:
General Counsel
NORTH AMERICAN SOCCER LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
1300 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

Responsibilities included successful representation of NASLPA in North American Soccer League and Its Constituent Member Clubs, 236 NLRB No. 181 (1978), the first NLRB representation decision involving professional team sports; also served as co-counsel in Kerr v. NASL, an anti-trust class action challenging the NASL reserve system.

1983 to 1986: General Counsel
UNITED STATES FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYERS ASSOCIATION
1300 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

Responsibilities included successful representation of USFLPA in NLRB certification proceeding; co-counsel in class action anti-trust suit against USFL; and spokesperson for USFLPA in negotiation of USFL Collective Bargaining Agreement in 1984.

1969 to 1972:
Practicing Attorney
MURPHY, HUISKAMP, STOLPER, BREWSTER & DESMOND
P.O. Box 2083
Madison, Wisconsin 53701

General practice of law with emphasis on litigation and commercial and tax law.

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Juris Doctor Degree, June 1969
Law School Honors:

Law Review
Order of the Coif
Ranked in top 10 of graduating class

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Admitted to State Bar of Wisconsin, 1969
Admitted to practice in Federal District Court in Wisconsin, 1969
Member, Wisconsin Bar Association
President-elect, Sports Lawyers Association
Board of Directors, Sports Lawyers Association since 1986
Chairman, Sports Lawyers Association Annual Seminar, 1987 and 1993
Co-founder, Association of Representatives of Professional Athletes
Member, Board of Advisors, National Sports Law Institute, since 1989
Speaker, Guest Lecturer at various legal/sports seminars, including:

ABA Forum Committee on Entertainment and Sports (1986, 1990)
Sports Lawyers Association Annual Seminar (1985-1993)
Association of Representatives of Professional Athletes (1987)
Harvard Law School Sports Law Forum - Paul Weiler and Red
Auerbach (1984, 1986)
Columbia Law School Sports Forum (1982)
American Arbitration Association Forum (1982)
Industrial Relations Research Association - Philadelphia (1988)
American Bar Association Labor Section, Toronto (1988)
Oregon State Bar Association, Portland (1988)
Tulane Super Bowl Sports Law Symposium (1990)
Arizona State University (1990)

PERSONAL

Born September 14, 1944 in Racine, Wisconsin
Married; five children; Wife Sandra was Elementary School Principal in Fairfax County, Virginia School System.

Stokely ("Stoke") G. Caldwell Jr.

Elsa Kircher Cole

Elsa Kircher Cole has been the General Counsel for the NCAA since April 1997, and has responsibility for its nationwide litigation calendar and all its legal affairs. She previously served as the General Counsel for the University of Michigan for eight years and before that as an Assistant Attorney General representing the University of Washington for 13 years. Ms. Cole is a frequent lecturer and writer in the area of higher education law. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and has been named a Fellow of the Association for her exemplary service over an extended time to college and university clients. Ms. Cole received her A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and her J. D. from Boston University.

William Cornwell, Sr.

Cornwell also serves as an expert witness and litigation consultant in sports-related cases and is often retained by players to represent them in administrative appeals under the NFL's Substance Abuse and Steroid Programs and the League's Conduct Policy. Among other notable matters, Cornwell negotiated the terms under which Ricky Williams was permitted to resume his professional football career when he was a facing a year-long suspension for violating the NFL Drug and Alcohol Policy. Cornwell also successfully represented three NFL players (Dana Stubblefield, Chris Cooper, and Barret Robbins) who faced discipline under the NFL's Steroid Policy for their unintentional ingestion of a designer steroid provided by BALCO Laboratories.

Cornwell is one of the most sought-after legal analysts for insight on the implications of current legal events in the sports industry. He has analyzed high-profile cases, e.g., Michael Vick dog fighting case, Terrell Owens' dispute with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, on television (NFL Network; ESPN; MSNBC; CNN; and BET television), radio, and in print media. ESPN.com referred to Cornwell as a "brilliant legal mind." ESPN recently retained Cornwell to serve as a Legal Analyst.

In 1987, Cornwell joined the National Football League as Assistant League Counsel where he represented former Commissioners Pete Rozelle and Paul Tagliabue. During his five years as NFL counsel, Cornwell represented the Commissioner's office in legal and business affairs, negotiating the principal agreements for the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and other league-sponsored special events. Cornwell also developed and directed the NFL's minority hiring program during the period when the NFL hired its first black head coach. When Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith made history by becoming the first black head coaches to reach the Super Bowl, the Washington Post acknowledged Cornwell's historical contribution in a front-page article on February 4, 2007.

After a short period as a sports agent, Cornwell joined the Upper Deck Company in 1993 and was named Vice President and General Counsel in 1994, serving in that capacity until re-entering private practice in 1997. Cornwell was the principal negotiator for Upper Deck's trading card and memorabilia licenses with the professional sports leagues and their players associations. Cornwell also negotiated endorsement agreements to use the name and likeness of professional athletes such as Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Troy Aikman, Steve Young, and Joe Montana. During his tenure at Upper Deck, Cornwell and his staff negotiated and administered licenses and endorsement agreements that earned Upper Deck and its affiliates in excess of $1 billion in gross revenues.

Cornwell may be the only lawyer in the sports industry who has represented a professional sports league (NFL), players within that league (as a sports agent in 1992), and a major licensee of the same sports league (the Upper Deck Company). Cornwell uses this unique professional experience to provide strategic legal and business advice and to assist his clients in navigating through complex business and legal issues that arise in the sports industry.

Cornwell has served as the primary counsel for Leigh Steinberg, Jeff Moorad, Eugene Parker, Dan Fegan, and Michael Gillis-agents who represent players and coaches in the National Football League; Major League Baseball; National Basketball Association; and National Hockey League. He quarterbacked the trial team that obtained a $47 million judgment for Leigh Steinberg against his former partner, David Dunn, and Dunn's company, Athletes First.

Cornwell's daily practice includes negotiating, drafting, and reviewing endorsement, licensing, and employment agreements for athletes, coaches, executives, and companies in the sports and entertainment industry. He also advises sports agencies and professional athletes on complying with the rules and regulations of the professional sports leagues, their players associations, and with state laws governing sports agents. Cornwell is a popular lecturer on topics unique to the sports industry and serves as a television legal analyst on sports-related topics. He also serves as a guest lecturer at the Wharton Business School, examining critical principles of negotiations.

A graduate of Tufts University, Cornwell studied abroad for one semester at the American University in Cairo, where he studied Middle Eastern History and Arabic and played professional basketball. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He began his legal career with Whitman & Ransom, the New York law firm, where his primarily focus was antitrust, trademark, and securities litigation.

Cornwell, a member of the California, Georgia, and New York Bars, is 47 years old and was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He lives in Georgia, with his wife, Kimberly H. Cornwell, Esq., and their daughter and son, Taylor Alexis and Wm. David, Jr.

Dennis Curran

Prior to being appointed General Counsel, Mr. Curran served as Labor Relations Counsel to the NFL Management Council from 1980-1990. Before that, he was Labor Relations Counsel to National and then Pan American Airways. After graduation from law school, he was an Assistant State Attorney in Dade County, Florida where he prosecuted public corruption and organized crime cases before Florida's statewide grand jury.

Mr. Curran received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Boston College in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Miami (Florida) in 1975.

William Daly

William (Bill) L. Daly, was named the National Hockey League's first-ever Deputy Commissioner by Commissioner Gary B. Bettman on July 22, 2005 — an appointment that was unanimously endorsed by the NHL's Board of Governors. Daly's appointment came after serving for more than eight years as the League's Chief Legal Officer during which time he played a major role in helping to shape the National Hockey League's identity on the global sports landscape.

In his current role, Mr. Daly is the chief consultant to Commissioner Bettman on virtually every issue impacting the League's operation and business. Principal among his duties is Mr. Daly's lead role in negotiating and administering the League's collective bargaining agreements with the NHL Players' Association and with the NHL Officials' Association. In 2004-05, he was a central figure in the League's collective bargaining negotiations with the Players' Association, which resulted in a new Agreement which effectuated a revolutionary change to the League's economic operating system. That Agreement, which many view as one of the most forward-thinking in all of professional sports, laid a strong foundation for the successful re-launch of the NHL's business in 2005-06.

In addition to his continued oversight of the NHL's legal departments, Mr. Daly is also responsible for many areas of the League's business, including its broadcast and new media initiatives, special events, and NHL International. Soon after the Collective Bargaining Agreement was concluded in the summer of 2005, he was the chief negotiator of the NHL's new national cable television agreement with OLN. Following that, he oversaw the NHL's negotiation of a new international television distribution arrangement with the North American Sports Network. Mr. Daly also oversees the NHL's participation in all international hockey competitions, including the Olympics, the World Cup of Hockey, and the IIHF World Hockey Championships. In that role, he was caretaker for the NHL's successful involvement in the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Winter Games, brokering agreements with the International Ice Hockey Federation and NHL Players' Association that facilitated NHL player participation.

Mr. Daly also negotiates the NHL's working agreements with the International Ice Hockey Federation and the Canadian Hockey League. He administers the NHL/NHLPA Program for Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health and serves on the Program Committee responsible for administering the League's Performance Enhancing Substances Program. Mr. Daly serves as President of the NHL Foundation — the organization responsible for administering and directing charitable dollars and initiatives for the League and its Clubs — and on the Board for the NHL Players' Emergency Assistance Fund. Mr. Daly also represents the NHL on the Lester Patrick Award Selection Committee, the Board of Directors for the Hockey Hall of Fame, and the Board of Directors for USA Hockey.

Prior to joining the NHL on December 13, 1996, Mr. Daly spent six years as an attorney with the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP. His focus with Skadden was litigation, labor and antitrust issues relating to sports. While at Skadden, Mr. Daly represented the National Football League and the National Basketball Association on a variety of legal and collective bargaining matters.

Beyond his duties with the NHL, Mr. Daly serves as a board member of the Sports Development Corporation of the City of New York, has served as a member of the Sports Law and Antitrust Law Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and regularly lectures on, and has authored a number of articles addressing, legal issues relating to professional sports.

Mr. Daly, 42, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and New York University School of Law.

BIRTH DATE: MAY 1, 1964

Keven J. Davis

• International Business
• Business
• Entertainment, Sports & Arts
• Intellectual Property

• New York, 2001.
• Washington, 1983.
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, 1983.

• Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1982
  Member, California Law Review
• Loyola Marymount University, B.S., Political Science, 1979
  President's Citation Award
  Outstanding Black Student Award
  W.E.B. DuBois Academic Award
  Afro-American Studies Academic Award
  Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society
  Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society

• Board of Directors, Sports Lawyers Association, 2006-2009.
• Member, American Bar Association: Patent Trademark and Copyright Section; Forum on Entertainment and Sports.

• President, Gary Payton Foundation, 1996-2001.
• Board of Directors, Central Area Youth Association, 1990-1995.
• Board of Directors, Bumbershoot Festival, 1993-present.
• Board of Trustees, Capitol Hill Housing Improvement Program, 1991-1994.
• Board of Directors, Big Brothers of King County, 1993-1995.
• Seattle School District Citizen's Advisory Committee for Minority and Women Business Enterprises, 1984-1988.
• Seattle Joint Advisory Committee on Education, 1982-1987.
• Board of Trustees, Citizen Education Center Northwest, 1984-1986.
• Board of Directors, Family Services of Berkeley, 1979-1982.
• N.A.A.C.P. National Board of Directors, 1976-1981.
• Berkeley City Commissioner, Board of Adjustments, 1979-1981.

Donald Fehr

As executive director, Don serves as the players' chief negotiator in collective bargaining with Major League owners, and has general responsibility for administering the other aspects of the MLBPA's activities, including contract administration, grievance arbitration, and pension and health care matters. In 1990, he successfully negotiated the $280 million settlement of the free agency collusion cases.

Craig E. Fenech, Esquire

He received his law degree in 1973 from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law). During his time at Berkeley, he served as President of the Associated Students of the University of California at Berkeley, co-founder of the National Student Lobby in Washington, DC and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Student Association in Washington, DC.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Fenech served as staff attorney in civil litigation for IBM Corporation and went on to practice both corporate and international trade law for IBM. Upon leaving IBM, he practiced federal criminal defense work for Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. in San Diego, California.

Mr. Fenech has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences related to the Business of Sport. He has participated in panel discussions in Washington, DC regarding the Federal Regulations of Agents and in Canada regarding the Business of Sport for the Canadian Institute Sports Conference. Mr. Fenech has taught a course on the Business of Sport at the Management Institute of New York University. He has also lectured on the Art of Negotiation before the New Jersey Bar Association and at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has guest lectured on related topics at law schools and universities across the country.

Elizabeth A. Galloway

Elizabeth A. (Libba) Galloway is Deputy Commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), a non-profit corporation promoting women's golf through its LPGA Tour and LPGA Teaching and Club Professional (T&CP) memberships. She has been at the LPGA since 2000, previously serving as the LPGA's Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Within the Office of the Commissioner, her current oversight responsibilities include LPGA governance, legal affairs, television distribution and tournament operations staff, as well as The LPGA Foundation.

Prior to joining the LPGA, Ms. Galloway was a partner in the Cincinnati, Ohio law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, where she practiced primarily in the areas of corporate and commercial law. She is a graduate of Duke University School of Law, and received a B. A. in History (Phi Beta Kappa) from the College of William and Mary. At William and Mary, she served as captain of the 1978-1979 women's tennis team, which has been inducted into the College's Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ms. Galloway's civic and industry involvement includes serving as President of the William and Mary Alumni Association and on the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association. She also serves on the Boards of the Daytona Beach and Halifax Area Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Tennis Center Foundation.

Jeff Gewirtz

In March 2009 Gewirtz was named as a Sports Business Journal FORTY UNDER 40.

Gewirtz formerly served as the United States Olympic Committee General Counsel and Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer. While there he oversaw all USOC legal matters, including areas such as litigation and arbitration, intellectual property matters, athlete and sport national governing body matters under the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, anti-doping, real estate, and sponsorship, media, and licensing transactions. Gewirtz also had oversight of the USOC's government relations activities with Congress and Federal government agencies and he served as counsel to the USOC's 2016 Olympic Games Domestic Bid City Evaluation Commission.

Prior to joining the USOC Gewirtz was Counsel - sports & entertainment transactions, marketing and media in The Coca-Cola Company's Corporate Legal Division. His primary responsibilities at Coca-Cola included the provision of legal counsel on and negotiation of the Company's North American sports marketing and media transactions with professional sports leagues, team, stadiums, arenas, and professional athletes. In that role, Gewirtz served as lead counsel for Coca-Cola North America's two largest sports industry transactions: (i) its over $500 million sponsorship and media alliance with CBS Sports, designating Coca-Cola as an NCAA Corporate Champion and granting Coca-Cola marketing rights across all 88 NCAA Championships; and (ii) its $170 million naming rights transaction with the Houston Astros for the naming of Minute Maid Park. In the winter and spring of 2005, Gewirtz served as counsel to Coca-Cola's eight-country Southeast and West Asia Division, based out of Coca-Cola's division office in Bangkok, Thailand.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Gewirtz was Director of Legal Affairs for IOC Television & Marketing Services SA, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. In that role he served as the legal point person and primary negotiator of the International Olympic Committee's global sponsorship alliances under The Olympic Partners (TOP) Program with companies such as Coca-Cola, Eastman Kodak, John Hancock, McDonald's Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Swatch/Omega, and VISA. Gewirtz also negotiated global sponsorships and technology license agreements on behalf of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee and the 2004 Athens Olympic Organising Committee.

Prior to his IOC work, Gewirtz was General Counsel of the LPGA Tour. He has also worked in-house in the legal and business affairs department of the WTA Tour and began his legal career as an associate attorney with the New York City law firm of Dunnington, Bartholow and Miller, LLP, where he served as associate to the United States Tennis Association's General Counsel. From 1997 through January 2002 Gewirtz also held the pro bono position of General Counsel to USTA/Eastern, Inc., the Eastern Section of the United States Tennis Association.

In addition, Gewirtz was formerly on the faculty of Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, serving as an adjunct professor of sports law at both schools. He is currently Chair of the Sports Division within the American Bar Association's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries and he sits on the Board of Directors of the National Sports Law Institute and on the Advisory Board of the Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research. He was also recently appointed to the Board of Editors of the Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law. In 2003, Gewirtz was named by the Fulton County Daily Report to its annual "Lawyers on the Rise" list under the age of 40 in the state of Georgia. He has also lectured extensively, both in the United States and internationally, on a variety of sports industry legal and business issues, including before groups such as the African National Olympic Committees, the Oceanic National Olympic Committees, the Australia-New Zealand Sports Lawyers Association, and at the 2002 SportAccord Conference in Madrid, Spain.

Gewirtz is a graduate of Tufts University, where he was a four-year member and 1990-91 captain of the Tufts Varsity Tennis Team and a member of Tufts' 1989 New England Championship team. Gewirtz also qualified to compete on the United States Team, in the men's tennis competition, for the 17th World Maccabiah Games held in Tel Aviv, Israel in July 2005. He received his law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the recipient of a three-year merit scholarship.

C. Peter Goplerud III

Peter Goplerud received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Kansas. In July, 2004 he became Dean of Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida. He began his career as a law clerk for Justice David Prager of the Supreme Court of Kansas and later joined the faculty of the University of Akron School of Law. He has taught at Southern Illinois University School of Law where he was also dean and associate dean, Saint Louis University School of Law and the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where he served as dean for three years. In addition he served as Dean of Drake University Law School from 1997 through June of 2003. His specialties are sports law and environmental law and he is widely published in both of those areas.

In 1997, Goplerud was elected to the Sports Lawyers Association Board of Directors. He serves on the Conference Planning Committee of the organization. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School. He has been a frequent lecturer and written numerous law review articles regarding sports law topics. He is a co-author with Ray Yasser, Jim McCurdy and Maureen Weston, of "Sports Law: Cases and Materials," one of the leading casebooks in the field now in its fifth edition. He has been a consultant in the sports law field and served as Of Counsel to law firms in Denver and Tulsa, as well as providing service as an expert witness. Goplerud was involved in the representation of professional athletes in team and individual sports during the 1980s and 1990s. He also has experience with coaches' contracts, athlete eligibility issues, and collegiate athletic compliance matters. During 2002, he hosted a weekly radio show on sports law and business topics.

Robert Hacker

In his capacity as the VP of FOX Sports, he drafts and reviews all of the agreements for the network sports business, which include all rights agreements, such as the NFL, MLB and NASCAR, above-the-line production deals, such as talent, producer, and director agreements, as well as all production related contacts such as mobile production facilities. In addition, he negotiates the vast majority of all such deals. With respect to his music duties he supervises the department that handles all music licensing, original composition agreements, and music library licensing.

Prior to coming to FOX he was in private practice. He began with two small firms, eventually moving into his own firm in 1993. He transitioned from being a commercial litigator, to a real estate litigator, to a transactional real estate attorney, specializing in construction and leasing, to production counsel for cable television movies and series. He is a graduate of the University of California (1976) and San Fernando Valley College of Law (1979), and is admitted to practice in California and before all US District Courts in California and the Ninth Circuit.

Bobby is divorced and is empty-nesting while his kids are off at college (Max (UCSB)) and his twins, Charlie (SF State) and Catie (UC Santa Cruz). He has served on various boards including AYSO Region 7, and is presently on the boards of the Santa Monica Rugby Club (2005 and 2006 Men's D-1 National Champions) and the Rugby Super League.

Roger Kaplan

Mr. Kaplan is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators. He is on the National Labor Panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Mediation Board. He has substantial experience in both the public and private sectors. In the private sector, Mr. Kaplan was the Grievance Arbitrator for the National Basketball Association and the NBA Players Association from 1999-2004. He served on the arbitration panel of Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1996-2004. He currently serves as a permanent arbitrator on many arbitration panels in the private sector including U.S. Air and the Air Line Pilots Association; AK Steel Corporation and the International Association of Machinists; the East Coast Hockey League and Professional Hockey Players' Association; Hotel Association of Washington, DC and UNITE HERE Local 25; Children's Hospital and the District of Columbia Nurses Association; Kaiser Permanente and OPEIU, Local 2; and Arena Football League and Arena Football League Players Association. Also, he is the Permanent Umpire for disputes arising between National Football League players and their agents. In the Federal Sector, Mr. Kaplan currently serves on numerous panels of arbitration. These include the Department of Homeland Security and the National Treasury Employees Union; Office of Personnel Management and the AFGE; and the General Services Administration and the AFGE.

Mr. Kaplan formerly served as a Member and Chair of the Personnel Appeals Board of the General Accounting Office. He previously served for two years as the Permanent Umpire for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the NTEU. Mr. Kaplan was a Hearing Board Member for the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices until its abolishment in 1996. He also served as the Permanent Umpire for internal disputes for members of the Association of Flight Attendants.

He was born in 1944 in New York City and currently resides in Alexandria, Va.

Stan Kasten

Perhaps most pertinent to Nationals fans, Kasten's leadership spawned the most unique sports dynasty in all of sports. Under Kasten's watch, the Braves established themselves as baseball's premier player development machine. The results continue to this day, as Atlanta has captured 14 consecutive National League Division titles, which in turn led to five NL pennants. Kasten earned a World Series ring in 1995, as Atlanta defeated Cleveland in a six-game Fall Classic.

Kasten carries an expansive working knowledge of sports facilities and their construction, as he spearheaded the conversion of Olympic Stadium to Turner Field, which serves as the home of the Braves to this day. He also oversaw the design of Philips Arena, the current home of Atlanta's Hawks and Thrashers.

Reuven J. Katz

Has been a partner in the firm of Katz, Teller, Brant & Hild, a Legal Professional Association, from January 1, 1980 to date. He is now Chairman of that firm. Before that, was with the firm of Paxton & Seasongood as an associate and then a partner of that firm until 1965 when he opened his own office for the general practice of law as Reuven J. Katz Co., L.P.A.

Member of the Cincinnati, Ohio, and American Bar Associations.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1924. Graduated from Walnut Hills High School, 1942. Served as officer in U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.

Was Chairman of the Board of the University of Cincinnati Foundation, and is now a member of that Board, a member of the Board of the Johnny Bench Scholarship Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, and the Sports Lawyers Association. Was President of Big Brothers Association of Cincinnati and the Council for Aging of the Community Chest. Has served on Boards of Jewish Vocational Service and Sheltering Oaks Hospital.

Is presently engaged primarily in the fields of estate planning, family business planning, health care law and sports and entertainment law.

Has lectured on civil rights at the Cincinnati Police Academy, has appeared on Bar Association panels on estate planning, pension and profit sharing, law office management and professional corporations. Has spoken at Notre Dame Law School, University of Cincinnati Law School, Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, Practicing Law Institute and Sports Lawyers Association on representing professional athletes. Has also spoken at seminars sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and jointly by the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association and by the American College of Surgeons on health care law. Is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" for corporate law.

Received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award of The Cincinnati Bar Foundation. Received Award of Excellence from Sports Lawyers Association.

Member of University Club, Cincinnati Country Club and Palm Beach Polo and Country Club.

Married to Catherine S. Katz. Two children, Stewart Katz and Sharon Katz, and three grandchildren, Ben Katz, Paul Katz and Catie Gilchrist.

Gord Kirke

Gord drafted the original documents to create the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club of the American League in 1976 and has represented them in contract matters ever since.

He has represented many components of the sports industry, including athletes such as 45 professional hockey players, including two players who were the first overall NHL draft picks (Eric Lindros in 1991 and Rick Nash in 2001), NASCAR driver Kathryn Teasdale, wrestler Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Olympic snow-boarder Tara Teigan, gymnast Elfi Schlegel; teams such as the Toronto Blue Jays (MLB), Toronto Raptors (NBA), Indianapolis Colts (NFL) and Toronto Argonauts (CFL); executives such as Gord Ash (Milwaukee Brewers), Paul Beeston (MLB), Pat Gillick (Philadelphia Phillies), Richard Peddie (Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors), Tom Wright (Commissioner, CFL), Chris Overholt (Florida Panthers), Rick Dudley (Chicago Blackhawks) and Ken Derrett (San Diego Chargers); leagues including the Canadian Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League; organizations such as Team Canada '72 and the World Wrestling Federation; sponsors of various sporting events: and sportscasters.

In 1997, Gord released the Players First Report to address the issue of child sexual abuse in sports. His recommendations have been implemented by many sports organizations in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Gord is a director of Tennis Canada (the organization which oversees tennis development and the two annual international tennis championships in Canada), the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports (Canada’s anti-doping agency), Special Olympics, Children’s Aid Foundation, Stop The Violence and several more community and charitable organizations.

He is a frequent guest on television and radio networks discussing sports law and sports business, including ESPN, NBC, CBC, CTV, SCORE, SportsNet, The Sports Network, etc.

Pamela R. Lester

Pam Lester is President of Lester Sports and Entertainment, Inc. (LSE), a consulting company serving the sports and entertainment industries. Areas of expertise include marketing, management, licensing and merchandising, the creation of special events, and television. Clients of LSE have included Cendant Corporation (one of the world's largest providers of travel and real estate services) and Ken and Daria Dolan (husband and wife co-hosts of radio and television personal finance shows).

Before starting her own company, Lester was Chief Operating Officer of HBO Properties, where she created and ran Home Box Office's (HBO) licensing and merchandising business, creating licensing programs for HBO's available programming, from The Sopranos to Sex and the City to HBO Boxing. Prior to her role at HBO Properties, Lester served as Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel of Time Warner Sports (TWS) and its pay-per-view television subdivisions, TVKO and TVKO Entertainment, distributors of boxing, concerts and other sports and entertainment programming. She was also involved with the licensing of World Cup '94 through her work with the former TWS subdivision, Time Warner Sports Mechandising.

Lester joined Time Warner Sports from the labor section of the Washington, D.C. office of law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, where she worked on matters for the NFL Management Council, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. During the mid-1980's, Lester represented athletes and was General Counsel for the Washington, D.C. based sports management and marketing company, Advantage International, Inc. (since acquired by Octagon).

Lester lectures frequently on sports law issues, has taught sports law at Fordham and American University Law Schools, and has written a chapter on athlete marketing for The Law of Professional and Amateur Sports. She is the first woman to have served as chair of the American Bar Association's sports and entertainment section, the Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, and as President of the Sports Lawyers Association. She has served on the Virginia Commonwealth University Sports Management School Board of Advisors, the Women's Sports Foundation Board of Advisors, and the marketing committee of U.S. Field Hockey.

Lester received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1983 and a B.A., cum laude, from Amherst College in 1980, where she was captain of four varsity teams. She also received the "Sphinx Spoon" award for the greatest contribution to Amherst athletics.

Lester lives in Skillman, NJ with her husband and three year old son, where she is also the head girls varsity lacrosse coach and a volunteer assistant field hockey coach for Montgomery High School (Montgomery Township, New Jersey).

Robert Manfred, Jr.

Mr. Manfred graduated from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1980. He received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law Review. While at Harvard, he wrote a Note concerning contribution limitations under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. Following law school, Mr. Manfred served as a clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro in the District of Massachusetts.

Following his clerkship, Mr. Manfred joined the Labor and Employment Law Section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP resident in the Washington, D.C., office. He became a partner in the firm in 1992. At Morgan, Lewis, Mr. Manfred represented employers in numerous industries, including transportation, healthcare, professional sports and airlines. He participated directly in the formulation and negotiation of economic and non-economic proposals for Major League Baseball in two separate rounds of collective bargaining (1990 and 1994-96). He represented individual teams in salary arbitrations and in grievance arbitrations and provided advice to teams on their individual salary negotiations with players. Outside the professional sports context, Mr. Manfred negotiated agreements with nurses, operating engineers and service employees on behalf of the Washington Hospital Center.

In addition to this collective bargaining experience, Mr. Manfred represented a number of clients in employee-benefit related matters. He served as counsel to the employer trustees on a number of jointly administered pension and health and welfare funds. He also represented multi-employer funds in federal court litigation under the Multi-Employer Pension Plan Amendments Act.

Mr. Manfred's other litigation experience includes the representation of employers in actions brought under the Railway Labor Act and various federal anti-discrimination statutes.

Active in professional organizations, Mr. Manfred is a member of the Labor Section of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bar Associations and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association and the Partnership for Clean Competition.

A. J. (Jack) Mills, Jr.

Matthew J. Mitten

Professor Mitten earned a B.A. in Economics from The Ohio State University and his JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Toledo College of Law. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and served as a Note & Comment Editor for the University of Toledo Law Review's editorial board. He practiced antitrust and intellectual property law with Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia from 1984-1989. He taught at South Texas College of Law in Houston from 1990-1999 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toledo College of Law as well as a visiting lecturer in sports medicine at The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Matt has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia and is a member of the International Advisory Board for its Graduate Diploma in Sports Law program. He has also taught sports law courses at the University of Barcelona in Spain and the University of Queensland in Australia.

Professor Mitten has co-authored a textbook titled Sports Law and Regulation: Cases, Materials, and Problems (Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2005). A leading sports law scholar, he has published articles in the Iowa, Maryland, Marquette, New England, Pittsburgh, St. John's, St. Louis, Nebraska, Seton Hall, and South Texas law reviews as well as in The New England Journal of Medicine.

In August 2003 he testified before a Congressional joint subcommittee regarding proposed federal regulation of ephedrine. He has given lectures and presentations about a wide variety of sports law topics at numerous conferences and seminars throughout the United States as well as in Australia and in China.

Professor Mitten is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne, Switzerland), the American Arbitration Association's Olympic Sports Arbitration Panel, the LPGA's Drug Testing Arbitration Panel, and the Sports Lawyers Association's Board of Directors as well as an Executive Member of the International Academy of Sportslaw Practitioners & Executives. He has been appointed to the Advisory and Editorial Board for The NCAA Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports by NCAA President Myles Brand. He formerly chaired the American Association of Law Schools' Section on Law and Sports and the NCAA's Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.

Richard M. Moss

In 1963, Dick joined the legal staff of the United Steelworkers of America as the Associate General Counsel, and was placed in charge of the Union's legal department at its International Headquarters. When Marvin Miller, who had been the chief economic advisor for the Steelworkers, left in 1966 to become Executive Director of the new baseball players union, he asked Dick to join him as General Counsel. Together, for the next eleven years, they constituted the two-man staff of the fledgling union.

While serving as the Players Association's lawyer, Dick was involved in all the collective bargaining negotiations and contract administration matters. He tried all the union's grievance arbitration cases, including in 1975 the Messersmith case which ended baseball's overly restrictive reserve system and created free agency for the players. He was also the union's lawyer in all of it's court litigation, most notably the Curt Flood case which was ultimately decided in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is one of the innovators of baseball's salary arbitration system, and tried, as the union's General Counsel, the first several cases for players who could not afford or did not trust outside representation.

Dick resigned in 1977, but continued serving the union as special counsel during the next three rounds of collective bargaining negotiations. He also began representing baseball players on an individual basis, and in the years that have followed, he has represented over 250 Major League players in contract matters. Among his early accomplishments in that regard were negotiating the first million-dollar-a-year contract in professional team sports for Nolan Ryan in 1979, and trying and winning the first million dollar salary arbitration case for Fernando Valenzuela in 1982.

In the past few years, Dick has also represented many prominent players in the other team sports in arbitration regarding disputes with their former agents. He has also represented agents in disputes with other agents.

Dick is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California 's law school where he teaches a course titled Sports and the Law. He has lectured at many other law schools, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford. He has also given papers at national meetings of many professional organizations including the American Bar Association and the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Dick is a member of the board of directors of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Sports Lawyers Association, in Los Angeles, Today's Fresh Start, a non-profit organization providing for tutoring of disadvantaged public school students. He also is a member of the board of trustees of Solebury School.

Jay Moyer

Prior to joining the NFL Moyer practiced litigation and labor law with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated with high honors from Dartmouth College and Duke University Law School, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has been profiled in multiple editions of Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders, and Who's Who in the World.

Moyer and his wife, Terry, live in New York City and southern Rhode Island.

Ash Narayan

RGT's Sports Advisory practice provides comprehensive tax, financial planning, business management and investment management services to professional athletes, coaches, general managers and sportscasters in all the major sports. Currently they work with over 50 professional athletes and their clients include Troy Aikman, Drew Bledsoe, Keyshawn Johnson and Darren Erstad.

Ash holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Valparaiso University and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. At Loyola, Ash was an editor of the Law Review. Ash is a member of several State Bar Associations, C.P.A. societies and the Institute of Certified Financial Planners.

Gary R. Roberts

Gary R. Roberts graduated from Bradley University in 1970 and Stanford Law School in 1975. At Stanford he was Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, a member of the Order of the Coif (top 10% of the class), and the recipient of several writing awards. In 1975-76 he was law clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco. In 1976 he joined the then largest law firm in Washington, DC, Covington & Burling, where for over seven years he engaged in antitrust, international trade, labor, contract, and trademark litigation. Working then with the future NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, his major client was the National Football League, but he also did significant work for, among others, the National Hockey League and World Championship Tennis.

In 1983 Dean Roberts joined the faculty of Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He was tenured in 1986 and promoted to full professor in 1987. He served as vice dean from 1990-95, and as deputy dean since 2001. In 2000, he became the Sumter Davis Marks Professor of Business and Corporate Law. In 2001, he received the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches classes in Sports Law, Antitrust, Labor Law, Intellectual Property, and Business Enterprises. At Tulane, Dean Roberts developed a substantial reputation as an expert in sports law. He developed and for 14 years directed the first sports law certification program in the U.S. In 2007 he left Tulane to assume the position of dean of the Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis.

Dean Roberts has written several major law review articles and book chapters, the majority on sports antitrust issues, and he has co-authored the leading text on sports law used in U.S. law schools, along with Professor Paul Weiler of Harvard Law School, now in its third edition. Over the years Dean Roberts has regularly appeared on national and local radio and television shows discussing various sports legal issues, and he is often quoted in newspapers and magazines throughout the U.S. He is a frequent speaker at sports law conferences throughout the world and has testified before Congressional committees on nine different occasions on pending sports related bills. He was also Tulane University's faculty athletics representative to the NCAA and Conference USA for 16 years and served on several NCAA and conference committees and cabinets.

Outside Tulane, Dean Roberts has since 1987 been an officer and member of the board of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, which he served as president from 1995-97. He has since 1986 edited the SLA's monthly newsletter, The Sports Lawyer, and he created in 1994 and supervises publication of the SLA's annual scholarly law review, The Sports Lawyers Journal. He is on the founding board of the All American Football League (AAFL), a professional league that starts playing in 2008. He is and has been since 2003 a member of the founding board of the International Association of Sports Law Professionals & Executives. He also owns and operates a consulting practice whose clients over the years have included, among others, Minor League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, UEFA (the European soccer federation), FIBA (the world basketball federation), the English Premier Football League, the English Football League, the Sugar Bowl, the Baltimore Orioles, the Seattle Mariners, the Continental Basketball Ass'n, the New Orleans Hornets, the American Horse Shows Ass'n, the National Hot Rod Ass'n, Bally's Casinos, and various athletes and coaches.

Peter S. Roisman

Peter Roisman became the President of The Ticket Reserve, Inc. (TTR) on February 1, 2004. TTR created, launched (December 2003) and now owns and operates the world's only "Forward (futures) Marketplace" for access to the world's best and most sought after live events&151;The Super Bowl, The Final Four, The World Series, The BCS College Football Bowls, The NBA Finals, and more. It operates a fully transparent, multi-attribute, neutral commodities exchange at its website www.theticketreserve.com where average fans obtain and trade access rights to the best live events in the world.

Mr. Roisman is the former Director of the Golf Division at Advantage International Management/Octagon, the world's second largest sports management and marketing company. While at Advantage/Octagon, Roisman's group managed as many as 50 Tour players on a worldwide basis, operated international golf tournaments, and consulted with companies like MasterCard and IBM on their sports marketing programs involving athletes. In addition, Mr. Roisman has represented All-Stars in the NBA, the NHL and a National Collegiate Basketball Coach of the Year.

Mr. Roisman has been a speaker at The Sports Lawyers Association Annual Conferences, The Sports Summit, The Institute for Sports Advancement, the Annual Meeting of American Golf Sponsors, The Strategic Research Institute's Conference on the Sports Industries, and others. He has spoken to law students and sports management students at the University of Connecticut, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Tulane University, Springfield College, Amherst College, Western New England College, University of Bridgeport, and several others.

Mr. Roisman has been a regular panelist on a nationally syndicated sports television talk show "The Sports Group"; he has been frequently interviewed for television, radio, newspapers, magazines and for a sports law website; his career has been featured in a book entitled Checkerboard Legal Careers; he has been quoted in several other sports-related books including The Student Athlete Handbook (1997) and has received literary credits from the Edgar Award winning author Harlan Coben for his Myron Bolitar Mystery series, wherein the protagonist is a sports agent; Mr. Roisman has given testimony before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on the Relocation of Professional Sports Franchises, and he has been hired as an expert witness in litigation involving sports agents and professional athletes.

Mr. Roisman was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Sports Museum and Hall of Fame and the founder of the Sports Law Society at the UConn Law School. He has been an Advisory Committee Member of Connecticut Section of the PGA of America (Honorary). Mr. Roisman was inducted into the Greater Hartford Jewish Federation's Sports Hall-of-Fame in 2003.

He lives with his wife and two daughters in Great Falls, VA.

Robert H. Ruxin

As Vice President and General Counsel of Kazmaier Associates, Inc. since 1986, Ruxin has served as part of senior management of a dynamic group of closely-held sports products, marketing, and events businesses. He assumed part-time status in 2002 after divestiture of several businesses in order to become primary day-time parent and baseball, basketball, and soccer coach for his three children.

Ruxin is managing "Hank Greenberg Day at the Hall of Fame," a retrospective celebration of the 75th anniversary of Greenberg's rookie season scheduled for June 29. In August 2004, Ruxin organized a two-day Celebration of Jews In Baseball at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown- recognized by the Hall of Fame as its most successful special event run by an outside group.

Ruxin is the author of An Athlete's Guide to Agents, which has been published in four U.S. editions, translated into Korean and adapted in a French version. He has served as a director of the Sports Lawyers Association for more than twenty years and is a director of Jewish Major Leaguers, Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to document American Jews in America's game; Lexington Youth Basketball, and the Princeton Association of New England. He is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.

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Lloyd Shefsky

It was not easy at first, however, and Shefsky's story reads like those of many of the famous entrepreneurs he interviewed for his book. He says: "I wasn't oblivious to the risks - the years of payment left on my school loan, a mortgage, a new baby to support — but the risks paled next to the opportunities -- not just to earn more but also to be tested every day and to know that my success depended on and would flow from my own talents and efforts. My partner and I had no capital. We borrowed all the money we needed from a local banker. Later, the banker came to me for advice on how to leave his large institution and open his own bank — not just legal advice, but also information on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Over the years, many clients have come to me for that reason, because they know I understand what they are about to go through."

Shefsky says, "It's important for entrepreneurs to follow two rules. First, do what you know best and love most. Second, know when your baby — your entrepreneurial business — no longer needs an entrepreneur but requires a manager."

Based on those precepts, Shefsky did as he says. After 26 years in the powerful and prestigious position of managing partner of his law firm — one of the fastest growing in the U.S. — Shefsky resigned to follow his true passion, helping a few select entrepreneurs to grow their business.

Shefsky's love of competition and success turned his attention to the world of sports. In 1975, he founded the Sports Lawyers Association. Since then, the SLA has blossomed into an organization of more than 1,000 members who represent professional athletes in almost every major sport in the United States, as well as those who represent teams, leagues, players' associations and other sponsors of professional sports. Shefsky served as president of the SLA for 12 years and remains a director and president emeritus.

Shefsky is a clinical professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, teaching the course he developed, "Entrepreneurial and Managerial Leadership." Shefsky also founded and serves as co-Director of Kellogg's Center for Family Enterprises. He recently founded and is the Chairman of The Institute for Entrepreneurship, which has been funded by the Kauffman and Coleman Foundations.

Until recently, Shefsky served, by Gubernatorial Appointment, on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurial Education, and on the Board of Governors of Economics America (Illinois Council on Economic Education).

In addition, Mr. Shefsky is a member of the Advisory Board of the Kellogg-Recanati International Executive M.B.A. Program. A past president and over 20-year member and director of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Shefsky also received the Chamber's Industrialist of the Year Award and was the moving force in establishing the National America-Israel Chambers of Commerce, where he is a member of the Executive Committee. He had previously served as a member of the board of the Chicago branches of the American Jewish Congress and the American-Israel Cultural Foundation. As legal counsel, Shefsky serves the government of Israel throughout the Midwest region. Those doing business with Israel value his advice on international entrepreneurship, and, for over 20 years, he has represented many Israeli business people and entrepreneurs, as well as American entrepreneurs who do business in Israel.

Because it seemed to Shefsky that his advice on entrepreneuring was being sought more and more frequently, he decided to investigate the information already available on the subject. He discovered that, although there were many books and courses on how to run a business, none of them explained satisfactorily what it takes to become an entrepreneur. Shefsky recognized from his own and his clients' experiences that the attitudes and traits entrepreneurs share are latent in many people. As he thought more about it, Shefsky became convinced that the way to achieve entrepreneurial success was to eliminate the barriers people put in their way. His goal would not be to teach entrepreneurial traits, which in most cases already exist, but to show how the obstacles blocking the effective use of those abilities can be overcome. Shefsky then began the six years of research and writing that have gone into his book. To help him explain the attitude that can motivate people to success, he interviewed more than 200 of the country's most accomplished entrepreneurs. The result is ENTREPRENEURS ARE MADE NOT BORN (McGraw-Hill), which was an alternate selection of three major book clubs (the Fortune Book Club, the Newbridge Executive Program and the Business Week Book Club), has had three printings in hardcover, is now in paperback, has been published in Japanese, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, and Hungarian; is required or recommended reading at Kellogg, Harvard, University of Chicago, Washington University, and others. Shefsky's book has received praise from successful people in all areas of entrepreneurship.

Shefsky has received various honors, including the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his support of entrepreneurship, from Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young LLP and Merrill Lynch. He also received the 1993 Award of Excellence from the Sports Lawyers Association and the 1990 Distinguished Alumnus Award from DePaul University. Shefsky has been retained by numerous companies over the years (ranging from Fortune 500 to start-up) to help them start and grow new business ventures. His strategic planning, guidance of development and implementation, and early establishment of both common and innovative exist strategies have proved extremely valuable to clients, some of whom have maintained decades-long relationships with Shefsky. Others, who have "done it again," retain Shefsky to guide their repeat performances.

Shefsky guest lectures at numerous business schools and Alumni groups (e.g., Kellogg, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, Harvard, Wharton, etc.) and he appears regularly before legal, accounting, government (U.S. and foreign), business (Y.P.O., Chambers of Commerce, Venture Capital and Corporate Annual Meetings) and education associations (e.g., International Institute for Entrepreneurship Education), as well as organizations relating to women in business (e.g., NAWBO, etc.) and doing business in Israel. He was invited to lecture to several venture capital, professional and academic groups regarding entrepreneurship in Japan. He recently taught a course at the Graduate Business School of Keio University in Japan. Shefsky has participated in The Wall Street Journal's roundtable for small business and entrepreneurship. He also has contributed numerous articles to legal and professional publications and served as contributing editor to The Entertainment Law and Finance Journal.

Shefsky received his J.D. in 1965 from the University of Chicago Law School, after graduating with a B.S. degree in 1962 from DePaul University. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1965, the U.S. Tax Court in 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court and the Florida Bar in 1973 and is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Kenneth L. Shropshire

His past consulting roles have included a wide variety of projects including work for the NCAA, National Football League, the United States Olympic Committee, negotiation training for IBM, Clorox and Fannie Mae and diversity training for entering Wharton School MBA students. The mayor of Philadelphia appointed Shropshire to chair Philadelphia's stadium site selection committee and he is involved projects focused on future Philadelphia bids for the Olympic Games. He has also served for the past three years as the Academic Director of Wharton's Entrepreneurial Management Program for NFL players focusing on their transition away from the game.

After receiving an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University and law degree from Columbia University Law School he was in practice law in Los Angeles and later served as an executive with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee leading up to the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles.

He is the author or co-author of eight books including The Business of Sports. His other books include, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, The Sports Franchise Game and The Business of Sports Agents.

He is an organizer and member of the Board of Directors of the Valley Green Bank in Philadelphia. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Florida Coastal School of Law and the Board of Directors of NutraCea (NTRZ.OB).

Shropshire has provided commentary for a number of media outlets including Nightline, CNN, the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and Sports Illustrated.

Deborah L. Spander

Debbie Spander is vice president of business & legal affairs of MTV Entertainment, a division of Viacom focused on sports, comedy and digital media. She is responsible for structuring, negotiating and managing development and original programming deals and overseeing business and legal aspects of Comedy Central's Los Angeles based productions. In 2007 Debbie negotiated and structured the first-ever wireless to linear television programming deal, which became the hit Comedy Central Series "Lil Bush." Debbie also manages Atom.com's (previously AtomFilms) business affairs, including licensing and syndicating content for a variety of new media platforms, social networking and UGC, works closely with Atom's General Manager to develop and enhance revenue streams, and negotiates Spike TV's sports programming agreements, including UFC. This past year Debbie has been integral in relaunching AtomFilms.com as Atom.com and launching Atom TV on Comedy Central.

In addition, Debbie is General Counsel and head of business development of A-Game, an athlete advocacy and consultancy. Debbie assists collegiate athletes and their families with their selection of player agents and marketing representatives, negotiates and reviews representation agreements, and helps develop presentations for collegiate and professional teams. She also edited "Money Players: A Guide to Success in Sports, Business & Life for Current and Future Pro Athletes" (A-Game 2008), and blogs about the business of sports and sports media on MoneyPlayersBlog.com

Debbie is a Director of the Sports Lawyers Association. In 2008 she chaired SLA's most successful conference in its 34-year history, attended by over 550 sports lawyers, agents and executives. She is the co-founder of the Business of Sports: Show Us the Future! Conference through the Paul Merage School of Business (UC Irvine). The inaugural conference in 2005 featured Peter V. Ueberroth and the second annual conference featured AVP commissioner Leonard Armato. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer on the business of sports. Recent presentations include "Current Issues in Sports Sponsorship, Marketing and Media Transactions" (2008 ABA Forum on Sports and Entertainment), "Welcome to Web 2.0: Issues in the Expansion of Sports Broadcast and Internet Rights" (2008 Sports Lawyers Association), "The Covergence of Sports, Entertainment and Technology" (Loyola Law School (LA) 2008) and Negotiating Sports Sponsorships and Rights in a Digital World" (2007 Sports Lawyers Association).

Prior to working at MTV Entertainment, Debbie was vice president of business & legal affairs for Fox Sports Net and Fox Cable Networks, where she structured, negotiated and administered broadcast rights and licenses for FSN, Fox Sports and FX, including the first-ever unified NASCAR telecast rights agreement. Debbie also negotiated and administered broadcast rights deals for the PGA Tour, Major League Baseball, ATP and WTA tennis, AVP volleyball, UFC and action sports. She was responsible for negotiating, closing, and managing business and legal issues of all original programming on Fox Sports Net, including The Best Damn Sports Show Period, Fox Sports News and Fox Sports Regional News programming. In addition, Debbie negotiated and developed deals for category and programming sponsorships, product placements and promotions, and leveraged acquired programming rights for FoxSports.com.

Debbie started her career at the Law Offices of Maidie Oliveau, where she negotiated and administered licensing, sponsorship, venue, merchandising, telecast and other agreements for a variety of sports event clients, including the Sugar Bowl, LPGA tournaments, NCAA Basketball events, the Ice Capades and the World Pro Ski Tour, and worked on Fox Inc.'s purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Debbie honors graduate of Stanford University and a graduate of the UCLA School of Law. She is a Director of Westcoast Sports Associates (WSA) a non-profit which helps disadvantaged Southern California youth improve their lives through sport. WSA currently funds AYSO programs as well as after-school sports and mentoring programs and summer sports & leadership camps for over 5,000 low-income children in the greater Los Angeles area. Debbie chaired WSA's fundraising gala which raised over $300,000 honoring Jack Nicklaus in 2007, and is chairing WSA's gala honoring Jerry West on November 3, 2008.

Debbie has been sports enthusiast her whole life. Her father, award winning sports columnist Art Spander, took her to sporting events almost every weekend of her childhood. To this day, Spander family get-togethers often take place at major sporting events, including The Masters, US Open, Final Four and Super Bowl.

Debbie is married to Marc Isenberg. The couple resides in Santa Monica, CA.

Michael B. Tannenbaum

Tannenbaum reports directly to Jets Chairman and CEO Woody Johnson and is responsible for managing all football operations, including the coaching staff, overseeing pro and college scouting, supervising salary cap management and contract analysis, video and football technologies, equipment, operations, training and medical personnel, as well as training camp and turf management.

He is charged with establishing and implementing policies and practices within these departments of football operations. Tannenbaum is involved in all areas of financial planning with respect to personnel decisions in the signing of free agents, the selection of players in the college draft, trades, waivers, and all related football activities.

Before coming to the Jets, the Needham, Mass. Native was with the New Orleans Saints in 1996 and the Cleveland Browns in 1995, spending both seasons as a player personnel assistant. It was during that season with the Browns that he met a public relations intern named Eric Mangini. The two were reunited with the Jets in 1997, and would forge a relationship that is now the base of the Jets football operation.

Tannenbaum worked as an intern with the Pittsfield (NY) Mets of the New York-Penn League (Class A) in 1991 before moving on to Tulane Law School, where he graduation Cum Laude and earned his certificate in sports law while interning with the New Orleans Saints.

Selected to the NFL General Managers Advisory Committee in 2008, Tannenbaum is also a member of the American Bar Association in the Sports and Entertainment Division. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in accounting. Tannenbaum has been a longtime supporter of numerous charitable endeavors and has served as a Chairman for the Alliance for Lupus Research's Walk on Long island. Born in New York City, Tannenbaum and his wife, Michelle, reside in New Jersey with their daughter and son.

Richard E. Thigpen, Jr.

In addition to his professional and civic activities, Mr. Thigpen is an avid golfer and sportsman, having served as a Pop Warner football coach, President of the Southern Golf Association, General Chairman of the World Seniors Invitational Golf Tournament, President of the Charlotte Sportsman's Club, President of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, and a member of the Senior Championship Committee of the United States Golf Association.

Stephen Townley

In order to meet the most recent challenge facing sports rights owners - i.e. understanding how digital media will challenge and change their business models - Stephen and Caroline Townley set up Active Rights Management (arm) in 1998 to respond to this need. arm has worked on this strategic planning issue with sports bodies, including the International Olympic Committee, the International Rugby Board the International Ice Hockey Federation, the English Football League, the British Horseracing Board, the British Basketball League and numerous others.

Stephen is a director of World Sport Football, a non-executive director of IMS, which is the marketing arm of UK motor sports and is the honorary legal advisor to the General Association of International Sports Federations.

arm is one of the two partners in NetResult, the Internet monitoring and compliance service for sports used by the IOC and NBC for the Sydney Games.

Over the last three years, Stephen has been focussed on the implementation of the NSPCC Fair Play Day, which has raised significant sums of money for the charity.

Stephanie Vardavas

In 1979, she was one of the first two trainees hired into the Major League Baseball Executive Development Program in New York City. After a year in that program she joined the American League as Manager of Waivers and Player Records. In that role she administered and enforced the Major League Rules as they related to contract signings and roster transactions such as waiver requests, assignments, and disabled list placements. While working full-time for the American League, she enrolled in Fordham Law School's evening division and graduated in 1985. After passing the New York bar exam she moved to the Commissioner's Office legal staff, where she remained until 1989, advising the Major League Clubs on player transactions, stadium leases, and other matters, and working on leaguewide sponsorship, television, and licensing agreements. In 1989 she joined the sports agency ProServ, first in its New York office and then in its headquarters in suburban Washington, DC.

At ProServ she led the endorsement, sponsorship, and television rights contracting process for ProServ's athlete clients and event properties, rising to the level of Vice President for Legal and Business Affairs. ProServ later became a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications. In 1997 Nike recruited Stephanie to its headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon to take up a position in the legal department dealing with endorsements and sponsorships. During her years in Beaverton, Stephanie has negotiated and drafted agreements with many of Nike's highest profile athletes and properties in tennis, golf, baseball, cycling, basketball, track and field, and other sports. While continuing her work in sports marketing, she now devotes roughly half of her practice to issues relating to product safety and sustainability issues affecting Nike's footwear, apparel, and equipment product divisions, as well as Nike's licensees and subsidiary brands including Cole Haan, Converse, Umbro, and Hurley.

She is a frequent guest speaker and panelist on sports law issues and regularly acts as an instructor for continuing legal education programs in related subject areas. She has been a board member of the Sports Lawyers Association since 1995.

Stephanie is also an active volunteer in the Portland community and served two terms as President of the Friends of the Multnomah County Library. In October 2002 she completed her first marathon, walking the 26.2 mile course in Portland in about eight and a half hours. Subsequently she has participated in the annual "Portland-to-Coast" race, the world's largest walking relay, in which teams of eight cover a 128 mile route.

She holds a JD from Fordham and a BA from Yale in American Studies. At Yale her senior essay advisor was the late A. Bartlett Giamatti and the subject was the relationship between the Black Sox scandal and the creation of the office of Commissioner of Baseball. However, her true claim to fame is that during her sophomore year Brooks Robinson lent her his uniform for Halloween.

Stephanie created and maintains a world wide web site called "Secrets of really good chocolate chip cookies," which has received approximately 1.5 million hits since first being put online in December 1995 at http://www.well.com/user/vard/cookies.html. It is one of the top five Google results for the search term "chocolate chip cookies."

She uses a Macintosh and thinks that you should, too.

She owns more than 250 pairs of shoes.

Richard Wagenheim

Rich achieved the distinction of Board Certification* in Workers' Compensation from the Florida Bar in 1989. In addition to being licensed to practice law in Florida, Rich is also licensed in Michigan and Washington, D.C . He is also licensed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Mr. Wagenheim is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida law firm, Wagenheim & Wagner, P.A. where he has represented, consulted and advised injured workers from all walks of life, including professional football, baseball, hockey, basketball and soccer players. Additionally, he is a member of the National Football League Players' Association and Professional Hockey Players' Association Workers' Compensation Panels.

In 1998, Rich was named ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR by the NFLPA Workers' Compensation Panel.

Rich is a member of numerous legal organizations. He is on the Board of Directors of Florida Workers' Advocates and is a lobbyist during legislative sessions on behalf of the rights of injured workers. He also serves on the board of the Sports Lawyers Association. Additionally, he is a member of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, the Broward County Bar Association and the Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section.

Rich also gives back to the community and makes a positive impact on youth. He is a board member of the Urban League of Broward County and the Coast to Coast Basketball Club. He is a national board member and Florida State Director of Biddy Basketball, a national boys and girls basketball program which Rich brought to South Florida.

Mr. Wagenheim is also a frequent lecturer on workers' compensation topics. He has lectured at the Florida Workers' Compensation Educational Conference, the Sports Lawyers' Association Annual Conference, Continuing Legal Education seminars, and at the University of Miami. He has also been quoted in numerous publications, including The Sun-Sentinel and Florida Lawyer, regarding workers' compensation issues.

*To become a board certified specialist, the Bar requires that a lawyer pass a written examination in the specialty area, complete approved legal education programs, demonstrate substantial experience in the specialty area, be favorably evaluated as to ability and experience by judges and other lawyers, and exhibit outstanding character, ethics, and a reputation for professionalism.

Bob Wallace

Wallace, who lettered in football as a running back at Yale University, first associated with the NFL and with professional football in St. Louis as a teenage training camp assistant with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971. He later served the Cardinals as Counsel and chief negotiator while representing the law firm of Guilfoil, Petzall and Shoemake from 1981-91.

Wallace was Assistant to the President and General Counsel for the Philadelphia Eagles from1991-94, and returned to St. Louis when the Rams moved here in 1995.

A native of New York City, Wallace was a legal intern on late NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle's staff while in law school. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University after graduating from Yale.

Wallace serves on a number of boards, including the Urban League of Greater St. Louis; Payback, Inc.; Operation Excel; The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; the St. Louis Sport's Commission; and, of course, the Sport's Lawyers Association. Wallace is a member of the Sports and Entertainment Division of the ABA. He has taught a class on sport law at St. Louis University School of Law and received a certificate of recognition for law and education from the St. Louis Public Schools.

Bob and his wife, Julie, have two sons Grant, 6, and Eric, 4, and live in St. Louis.

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Glenn M. Wong

Glenn M. Wong is a professor in the Sport Management Program in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has been a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts since 1979. He served as Department Head from 1986 to 1997. In 1992-93, he served as Interim Director of Athletics and then Acting Dean of the School of Physical Education. He is currently the Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Massachusetts to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and has served in that role since 1993. He has taught courses in Sport Law, Sport Finance and Business, College Athletics, Amateur Sports Law and Labor Relations in Professional Sports. Professor Wong is also one of the original faculty members with the Sports Management Institute (1990).

In 2007, Wong was named as one of "The 100 Most Influential Sports Educators in America" by the Institute for International Sport" at the University of Rhode Island. In 2006, Wong received the Academic Achievement Award in Sport Management, presented by the International Conference on Sport and Entertainment Businesses, University of South Carolina. In 2003, he earned the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts. In April 2001, he received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Massachusetts Alumni Association. In April, 1999, he gave a presentation entitled "The Impact of the Law on the Development of Sports" in the University of Massachusetts Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, and received his second Chancellor's Medal of Honor.

Wong has authored several books and over 100 sport law articles. He recently published The Comprehensive Guide to Careers in Sports (2008). He is the author of Essentials of Sports Law, 4th Edition (2009). He has co-authored Law and Business of the Sports Industries, Volumes I and II and The Sport Lawyer's Guide to Legal Periodicals (1995). He has also contributed chapters in several books. His articles have appeared in the Seton Hall Legislative Journal, The American Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, Lord Publishing Company's Case Studies, Athletic Business, Detroit College of Law Review, Gonzaga Law Review, Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, The Arbitration Journal, and Nova Law Review. In addition, Professor Wong wrote a monthly column for ten years, entitled the "Sports Law Report" for Athletic Business magazine.

Professor Wong is a frequent speaker on sports law and negotiation topics and has made over 100 presentations. He has been a speaker at the Sports Lawyers Association, the Knight Commission on college athletics, the Seton Hall Sport Law Symposium, Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the Athletic Business Conference, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Management Institute, the Sports Management Institute, National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, The National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics, the National Association of Student Personnel Administration, the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, and others.

Outside of his work at the University of Massachusetts, Professor Wong has acted as a lawyer or consultant for a number of organizations within the sports industry including, among others, Sports Illustrated, Reebok, the National Collegiate Athlete Association, the United States Olympic Committee, U.S. Triathlon, U.S. Biathlon, the Boston Red Sox, and Major League Baseball. In addition, he served as an expert witness in sport cases involving liability issues and damages. He has also worked as with universities starting sport management programs, the sports insurance industry, heath/fitness clubs, trading card manufacturers, and NCAA conferences. He has served as an arbitrator in cases involving the United States Anti Doping Agency. In addition, Professor Wong worked as outside counsel for the Boston Red Sox in salary arbitration cases from 1997-2003. Wong is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. He is currently a member of the board of directors for the Sports Lawyers Association, where he has served for 10 years. He has also been a member of the Arbitration Panel of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Sociology at Brandeis University, where he co-captained the basketball team, and a Juris Doctorate degree from Boston College Law School. He has received a distinguished alumnus award from Brandeis University.