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Start Your Engines: Welcome To the NCBA Sports & Entertainment Law Section Blog

kellymatt Neil Magnuson

By Matt Kelly and Neil Magnuson

The Sports & Entertainment Law Section of the NC Bar Association is pleased to announce that, in lieu of continuing to issue a quarterly newsletter, it has launched and will deliver news, articles, and other scholarship via this blog.

If you are a member who has been receiving the newsletter, you are automatically enrolled to receive notices of new SEL Section blog content. Please also bookmark this page and return often for news and announcements!

To kick off this blog, we are pleased to be able to share with you comments from our new Section Chair Shannon L. Vandiver. Please take a look to find details about our plans for the year, including our CLE upcoming on Dec. 1, The Rise of Daily Fantasy Sports and the Challenges Posed by Anti-Gambling Laws.

If you have content that you would like to share on our blog, please contact our blog chair, Matt Kelly, at [email protected] or co-chair, Neil Magnuson, at [email protected].

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The Chair’s Comments: Sports & Entertainment Law’s Game Plan For the Year

vandivershannonBy Shannon Vandiver

With over 150 member attorneys in industries spanning the sports and entertainment worlds including those that serve as in house and outside counsel for all of North Carolina’s major league sports teams and properties as well as many of its minor league, amateur, collegiate and youth sports entities and attorneys representing artists, entertainers and media outlets all over the state, the Sports and Entertainment Law Section is truly the hub of the sports and entertainment legal world for North Carolina.

Our attorneys serve clients that include NASCAR and other motorsports teams, drivers and sanctioning bodies as well as NFL, NHL and NBA teams; athletes, coaching staffs and support personnel; NCAA schools and conferences including the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference; the North Carolina High School Athletic Association; media companies, stations and providers; musical, visual and performing artists, labels and venues; literary authors and publishers; and many, many others. Section members include corporate counsel, business transactional and litigation attorneys, attorneys who provide immigration law services for athletes, entertainers, performers, investors and producers; those whose practices are focused on technology or intellectual property, copyright, trademark or privacy law, promotions, digital media, internet, gaming and many other areas of the law that touch sports or entertainment. The largest concentrations of our section members are in the Charlotte and Triangle areas but we are also well represented in the Triad and in areas from Western North Carolina to the coast.

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