Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 3, 2015 – The nation’s top sports lawyers converged in Baltimore last month to attend the 41st Annual Conference of the Sports Lawyers Association (SLA). The three-day conference featured 25 panels and breakout sessions on legal issues facing the sports industry, including those surrounding how teams discipline players and […]
Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 3, 2015 – Becker & Poliakoff is pleased to announce that Daniel Wallach has been accepted as a general member of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL). He shares this honor with many of the world’s top gaming attorneys, regulators, compliance officers, tribal leaders and educators, and is […]
On April 29, 2015, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision upholding the right of states to ban elected judges and judicial candidates from directly soliciting campaign contributions. In a ruling that affects many of the 39 states (including Florida) where voters elect judges, the high court concluded that the […]
On March 27, 2015, the University of Florida Levin College of Law presented its 2015 Sports Law Symposium, featuring Rand Getlin (award-winning investigative journalist and the NFL Insider for Yahoo Sports) and Erik Burkhardt (one of the top NFL player agents) as keynote speakers. The symposium consisted of four moderated […]
By GovExec State & Local Staff March 30, 2015 Former Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess, the vice chairman of Becker & Poliakoff’s Public-Private Partnerships Practice team, writes about P3 projects. Public-private partnerships, or P3s, are relatively new to the United States but in other parts of the world are the preferred approach […]
