(Podcast) The Briefing: Sinking the Rogers Test? What Pepperdine’s Lawsuit Could Mean for Hollywood
The Briefing: Sinking the Rogers Test? What Pepperdine’s Lawsuit Could Mean for Hollywood
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Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation - Intellectual Property
The Briefing: Everyone Loves the HBO Series 'White Lotus,' Except Duke University
(Podcast) The Briefing: Everyone Loves the HBO Series 'White Lotus,' Except Duke University
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation - Public Finance
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Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Antitrust
Business Better Podcast Episode - An Introduction to Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation
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House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
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NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
Are Colleges Prepared to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees?
Serving the Diverse Needs of Children through Education Law: On Record PR
Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Basketball Team Unionizes: The NLRB Sets a Pick for Unions
The NCAA's Response to the NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
Introduction The first eight months of the Trump administration saw dramatic changes in labor and employment policy—from civil rights to traditional labor law to immigration—with more to come as key positions at oversight...more
The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more
The Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team, represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 560, requested to withdraw its petition to unionize on December 31, 2024. The petition, approved by the National Labor...more
The ongoing battle to turn NCAA student-athletes into employees continued this week. As reported here early this year, in February, Laura Sacks, Regional Director of Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a...more
NIL partnerships between businesses and collegiate student-athletes remain a lucrative opportunity. In fact, marketing and advertising through student-athletes has been so successful that the NIL industry is projected to soon...more
Introduction - In the past three years, groundbreaking legal and structural changes have shaken collegiate sports. In June 2021, a unanimous Supreme Court held in NCAA v. Alston, 594 U.S. 69 (2021), that the NCAA and some...more
Recently, in Johnson v. NCAA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that, depending upon the surrounding circumstances, student-athletes may qualify as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This...more
On July 11, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled in Johnson v. NCAA that certain college athletes may qualify as employees of their schools or the NCAA under the Fair Labor...more
U.S. college athletes may soon be considered employees entitled to minimum wage under federal law. In a recent decision, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that college athletes could theoretically be considered...more
The Dartmouth College Men’s Basketball Team recently petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for recognition of their rights as “employees” of the College to form a union and bargain over their relationship to...more
On March 5, 2024, players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team voted to unionize, making the group the first college sports team to do so in the United States. Dartmouth College has already filed an appeal with the...more
With the College Football Playoff completed, the NCAA has reached an inflection point. After decades of austerity in providing benefits to student-athletes, NCAA President Charlie Baker recently sent a letter to Division I...more
When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more
We previously reported on General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's announcement of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) gameplan to treat certain student athletes at private colleges and universities (together, "Academic...more
This question, once settled, has seen increased scrutiny in recent years both from the National Labor Relations Board and courts that have considered the issue.2 One of those courts – the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which...more
Following an eventful and evolving sports landscape in 2022, KaufCan Sports is keeping tabs on a number of noteworthy areas in the Sports Law world for 2023. From NCAA and its student-athletes to disruption in world golf to...more
Back in August, the National Labor Relations Board threw the higher education community a curve ball ruling that student assistants at Columbia University were employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and were...more
A complaint recently filed in the Southern District of Indiana alleges that the NCAA and its Division I Member Schools have jointly agreed and conspired to engage in a widespread pattern, policy, and practice of failing to...more
The Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 term opened yesterday. In this term, the Court will hear and decide a number of cases affecting employers, including two key cases focusing on labor-management relations. ...more