Moderator: Dean Rochelle Outlaw Edwards
Assistant Dean of Equity, Justice and Engagement, Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
WHEN
Seton Hall University will hold its Sixth Annual Sports Law Symposium on Friday, October
24, 2025, from 10:00 am to 3:10 pm. We will be holding breakfast and registration
beginning at 9 a.m.
WHERE
Seton Hall University School of Law, One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102 in the 1st
Floor DeCotiis Law Moot Courtroom. Registration is required.
CLE CREDIT
Approved for CLE
NJ: 4.5 Credits (2.5 General + 1 Ethics + 1 DEI)
PA: 4 Credits (2 Substantive + 2 Ethics (no DEI in PA))
TARGET AUDIENCE
Seton Hall Law Students interested in Sports and Entertainment Law, Law Students at
other law schools, Sports Lawyers, Attorneys, Faculty, Judges, those interested in
complex contracts, antitrust law and those interested in ethics and diversity and
elimination of bias
COST TO ATTEND
Non-Seton Hall Attendees: $99.00
Seton Hall Faculty and Students: Free, use code SETONHALL2025 to redeem
DESCRIPTION
Women’s Sports and Title IX: Right Now! (1 Diversity Credit in NJ)
Course Description: Perhaps no other area of sports has received more attention, more discussion, or even investment than women’s sports in the last several years. Women’s professional league values are through the roof but the transformational 1972 law Title IX that has fueled so much success for America’s female athletes is seemingly also under some transition. This panel that includes extraordinary pioneers, noted attorneys, and policy experts will examine both the history and present state of women’s sports and explore how pathways for opportunity expand opportunities in other areas including the elimination of bias and better representation.
Inside the Leagues and their Legal and Business Practices- An Insider’s Prospective (1 general NJ CLE credit)
Course Description: This panel explores the complex legal and business organisms that are our modern professional leagues, panelists include current and former commissioners, league CEOs and Senior Vice Presidents for Business and Legal Affairs to analyze the legal challenges facing current professional leagues.
Navigating the Present Crisis in College Athletics for Lawyers in the Field
Course Description: The ever-shifting legal environment in and around college athletics poses challenges not just to the institutions by to the lawyers who work in this space. This panel which features several notable attorneys whose work has and is shaping the field to discuss the range of challenges whether antitrust, contractual, and practical facing the future of college sports.
Ethics and the Rules of the Game. Ethical Systems from Sports, their Philosophical Roots and How the Implicate on the Practice of Law (1 Ethics Credit)
Course Description: This panel discussion explores the legal, philosophical, and moral antecedents that make up the rules of any game, or moral or philosophical system. It builds off Professor Coenen’s highly innovative course on the Rules of the Game which helps frame the origins of law and its code of Professional Responsibility through an understanding of the origins of well-known rules found and known sports. It will examine the incentives for performing honorably, with integrity, and where certain situations may offer incentives for skirting the moral and ethical high ground and how these situations are dealt with ethically, and in the model rules of law practice and the professional obligations of the attorney to the client, the court, the public, and other lawyers.
If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact Matilda McDougall at 973-642-8721 or [email protected]
Agenda. All times are listed in Eastern Time.
10:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction
10:10 - 11:00 am
Women’s Sports and Title IX: Right Now!
Moderator: Dean Rochelle Outlaw Edwards
Assistant Dean of Equity, Justice and Engagement, Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
Moderator: Julie Sommer, Esq.
Executive Director of The Drake Group, Seattle WA
Learn more about Julie Sommer »
Arthur Bryant, Esq
Title IX Attorney, Oakland, CA
Learn More about Arthur Bryant »
Scott Scheider, Esq.
Principal Schneider Education & Employment Law Services, Austin TX
Learn More about Scott Scheider »
11:00 - 12:00
Inside the Leagues and their Legal and Business Practices- An Insider’s Prospective
Moderator: Professor Robert Boland
Seton Hall University Law School
Frank Hawkins, Esq.
Former SVP for Business at the National Football League
Learn More about Frank Hawkins »
Doug Logan
Founding Commissioner of Major League Soccer
Ken Belson
New York Times, Author of “Every Day is Sunday,” a new book on the NFL
12:00 - 12:30 pm
12:30-1:00 pm
Lunch Conversation “Every Day Is Sunday” Lessons from the National Football League
Ken Belson
New York Times, Author of “Every Day is Sunday,” a new book on the NFL
Learn More about Ken Belson »
Frank Hawkins, Esq.
Former SVP for Business at the National Football League
Learn More about Frank Hawkins »
Professor Robert Boland
Seton Hall University Law School
1:00 - 2:00
Navigating the Present Crisis in College Athletics for Lawyers in the Field
Gregg Clifton, Esq.
Partner Lewis Brisbois, Phoenix, AZ
Learn More about Gregg Clifton »
Kevin Marino, Esq.
Partner, Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, SHUL Alumni, Chatham, NJ
Learn More about Kevin Marino »
Thomas A. Mars, Esq.
Principal, the Mars Firm, Rogers, AR
Bennett Speyer, Esq.
Partner and Chair of the Hospitality, Leisure, and Sports Business Service Group, Shumaker, Loop, & Kendrick, Toledo, OH
Julie Sommer, Esq.
Executive Director of The Drake Group, Seattle, WA
Learn More about Julie Sommer »
Bart Lambergman, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Toledo, OH & New York, NY
Learn More about Bart Lambergman »
Diana Florence
Of Counsel, Shumaker, Loop, & Kendrick, Toledo, OH & New York, NY
2:00 - 3:00
Ethics and the Rules of the Game. Ethical Systems from Sports, their Philosophical Roots and How the Implicate on the Practice of Law
Moderator: Professor Robert Boland, Esq.
Seton Hall Law School
Professor Michael Coenen, Esq.
Marino, Tortorella and Boyle Professor of Law Seton Hall Law School
Professor Michael Granne, Esq.
Seton Hall Law School
Professor Francesca Zaccaron, Ph.D.
Former Toth Lonergan Visiting Scholar, Current Core Seton Hall
3:00 - 3:10
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