National Sports Law Negotiation Competition & Sports Law Conference 2013

Date: September 20, 2013 (All day) - September 22, 2013 (All day)

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Third Annual

National Sports Law Negotiation Competition & Sports Law Conference 2013

Friday to Sunday, September 20-22, 2013

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Sports Law Negotiation Competition & Symposium 2012 a Major League Success

History & Vision of the National Sports Law Negotiation Competition

The National Sports Law Negotiation Competition (“NSLNC”) is an annual competition and sports law conference hosted by Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. The NSLNC Board consists of five sports and academic professionals and one director who make the organizational decisions for the yearly competition and conference. The NSLNC Board, students of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the Center for Sports Law & Policy, are instrumental in making the NSLNC progress forward every year benefiting the sports law community.

The NSLNC was created by sports and academic professionals with the needs and wants of the law student in mind as they enter and succeed in the legal world. The NSLNC’s purpose is to give back to law students a great experience, competition, and place to meet like minds in the sports law world. Our mission is to provide the sports profession with a body of able and ready legal minds, through the negotiation and training of law students with the use of real-life issues affecting athletes, sports franchises, teams, like businesses and entities.

The competition focuses on current issues in the sports world each year and facilitates students, coaches and judges to negotiate and make decisions on these sports topics in an academic setting. The fact patterns allow students to focus on more than one area of sports law, including: contract negotiation, trading of players, salary demands, endorsement contracts, athlete and sports professionals family and personal issues, and intellectual property among others.

It is our hope that you enjoy the yearly competition weekend, which includes a sports law conference, San Diego Padres game in private suites, the competition, and of course meeting future lawyers, agents and current sports professionals and judicial officers from across this great Country and the World in America’s finest city, San Diego, California. Thank you.

-Jeremy M. Evans ‘11

National Sports Law Negotiation Competition, Founder & Director

TESTIMONIALS

"I thoroughly enjoyed the competition. The students were stellar as were my co-panelists [David Winfield, MLB Hall of Fame and Jan Goldsmith, San Diego City Attorney/elected official]. It was a wonderfully worthwhile event. When I got home I told my wife how impressive the students were and how well organized the event ran. So, I thank you for inviting me to participate and am truly glad the students enjoyed the panelists' comments. Jan [Goldsmith] brought such rich insights as a negotiator in the public sector wrestling with real issues. Dave [Winfield] has a long and distinguished career in baseball as a player and now in management; so he brought rich insights that were deeply relevant to the subject matter. My congratulations to you and your team for organizing such a wonderful event. It is the kind of competition that justly increases the prestige of TJSL and the attractiveness of San Diego as an educational center."

William McCurine, Jr.

U.S. Magistrate Judge (NSLNC 2012 Final Round Judge)
"It was, in deed, a magnificent competition, and it was abundantly apparent that a tremendous amount of work had gone into the preparation. As a result, the teams, their schools, and the judges enjoyed a seamless process.

While I am now principally a mediator/hearing officer, I spent the lion's share of my career as a transactional negotiator. Having said that, I was stuck how well versed and prepared a number of the competitors were in utilizing skills and techniques that it requires time in the trenches to acquire. Thank you for the opportunity to have participated in the process."

John Rees

Mediator (NSLNC 2012 Judge)
"We definitely want to send a team next year."

Jarin Giesler

Oklahoma City University School of Law (NSLNC 2012 Champion)