The second annual National Sports Law Negotiation Competition (NSLNC) will be held from September 28-30, 2012 in San Diego, California. The NSLNC is an annual competition and sports law conference hosted by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a non-profit institution that co-sponsors the event with the school’s Center for Sports Law & Policy.
The event is being sponsored by Consor (www.consor.com), an intellectual property expert firm based in San Diego.
The mission of the NSLNC 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 NSLNC Board consists of five sports and academic professionals and one director who make the organizational decisions for the yearly competition and conference. Students of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, the Center for Sports Law & Policy, and the Sports Law Society are also instrumental in making the NSLNC progress forward every year.
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 it to give law students a great experience, competition and place to meet like minds in the sports law world.
The competition, which has a 40-team cap, 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.
The competition schedule is as follows: preliminary rounds on Saturday, September 29, and the championship final round on Sunday, September, 30.
The NSLNC competition weekend also includes a sports law conference and a chance for participants to attend the San Diego Padres vs. Giants game in private suites on Friday,
September, 28, 2011. Attendees are also given the opportunity to meet future lawyers, agents and current sports professionals and judicial officers from across the country and the world.
Organizers also announced that long-time sports agent Leigh Steinberg will be the
Keynote speaker for the Rooftop finalist announcement ceremony. He will speak about his life in sports, as well as offer tips and advice for the students, agents and lawyers attending the event.
Although the competition registration is closed for NSLNC 2012, symposium tickets are still available and this year’s registered teams may be viewed online.
For questions and additional information, email NSLNC Board Director Jeremy M. Evans at NSLNC@TJSL.EDU
