How To Play The Game:what Every Sports Attorney Needs To Know Paperback English by Darren Heitner - 7 May 2014

Darren Heitner

If you want to play the game, you need to know how to play the game. Sports law is a niche practice area. It encompasses a variety of disciplines, but also requires knowledge of the inner workings of professional leagues and sports-related statutes in order to be successful in the field.How to Play the Game provides readers with an overview of sports law specifically tailored to practitioners who are looking to add sports law to their practice area and who need a practical, informative--though not encyclopedic—overview of the field to help them get started. It discusses the laws that govern the sports industry, from contract drafting and negotiation to antitrust issues, intellectual property matters, and labor law concerns. It also discusses the role of players’ associations, the power of sports commissioners, sports betting regulations, and more. But what makes this book unique are the real-life case studies involving recognized professional and college sports figures as well as anecdotes from the author’s own experiences as a sports attorney, agent, and media spokesperson for college and professional sports industries. In addition, an appendix contains examples of legal documents--including professional contracts—with which any sports attorney/agent needs to be familiar. In short,How to Play the Game is the go-to source for anyone interested in getting into the field of sports law.

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English

American Bar Association

7 May 2014

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Darren Heitner writes for Forbes, focusing on the business of sports, and is the Founder/Chief Editor of the Sports Agent a site covering the niche sports agent industry that on average receives roughly 4,000 page views a day. Heitner is also a professor of Sport Agency Management at Indiana University Bloomington and a Miami-based attorney specializing in Sports Law, Entertainment Law, Music Law, and Intellectual Property Law. Heitner has achieved significant recognition, including being listed by SportsPro as 1-of-10 stars of the sports business industry under the age of 30 at the age of 26, and is the youngest member of the Vermont Law School Sports Law Institute's Board of Advisors.

Anyone thinking of a career as a sports attorney must read this book first. -- Leigh Steinberg, sports attorney, CEO of Steinberg Sports and Entertainment, and author of The Agent From The Foreword How to Play the Game: What Every Sport Attorney Needs to Know is a must read for anyone already working in the sports sector or aspiring to join it. This book provides the reader with an inside look at sports law as well as serving as a reference tool for years to come. -- Jonathan S. Blue, Chairman of Blue Equity, LLC, former Chairman of BEST, one of the largest sports porduction and representation businesses in the world before being purchased by Lagardere Unlimited in 2010 Sports Practitioners need legal reference guides and there are few available for today's attorneys in sports. Darren Heitner's 'How to Play the Game' presents an educational sports guide for the library of every practitioner." -- Ralph E. Cindrich, Sports Attorney, Agent since 1978, Law Professor, and Expert Witness The book is truly something that lawyers and non-lawyers alike will undoubtedly enjoy, and most importantly find tough to put down once Heitner begins to show them the money. -- Forbes