St. John's School of Law | 8000 Utopia Pkwy. | Queens, NY
Arbitration in Professional Sports
Friday, April 19, 2013
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
St. John’s School of Law
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Hosts and Sponsors
Center for Labor and Employment Law
Labor Relations and Employment Law Society
Co-Sponsors
The Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution Society
Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Society
In Collaboration With
The American Arbitration
Association
NYU Center
for Labor and Employment Law
This is a unique symposium. With the assistance of Eugene Orza
'73, former Chief Operating Officer of the Major League Baseball
Players Association, the Center has assembled a truly stellar cast
of the principal actors in the world of sports arbitration. A
luncheon address by Donald Fehr, the preeminent sports union leader
in the country, and a “fireside chat” with George Nicolau and John
Feerick, internationally renowned arbitrators, headline the event,
but it also includes sessions in which today’s leading
practitioners of both salary and grievance arbitration, on both
sides of the labor and management aisle, will describe how those
processes work, what interested students need to know about the
demands of both, and how the arbitration process has affected labor
management relations in their sports. There will also be a closing
plenary session with any final observations that conference
participants may wish to offer, followed by questions from those in
the audience.
In no other industry have the arbitration process and its
results helped shape the contours of the labor management relation
more than they have in professional sports. This symposium
represents nothing less than a not-to-be missed chance to meet,
hear, and, most important of all, learn from, the people who have
been responsible for that, and who know the most about it.
Keynote Speaker
Donald Fehr, Executive Director, National Hockey League Players
Association
Participants
In addition to Messrs. Fehr and Nicolau, and Dean Feerick,
participating will be:
- Ralph Berger, Arbitrator
- Richard Berthelsen, Former General Counsel, NFLPA
- Dennis Curran, Senior Vice President/General Counsel, NFL
- Daniel Dumais, Partner, Norton Rose
- Dan Halem, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Labor,
MLB
- Ronald Klempner, Interim Executive Director, NBPA
- Paul Mifsud, Senior Counsel, MLB
- David Prouty, General Counsel, MLBPA
- Ian Pulver, Agent, Pulver Sports
- Elliott Shriftman, Arbitrator
- Rick Shapiro, Senior Advisor, MLBPA
- Rosemary Townley, Arbitrator
- Carol Wittenberg, Arbitrator
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
The full-day Symposium qualifies for 4 non-transitional CLE credit
hours. The CLE fee is $100. No partial credit will be awarded.
Hardship tuition reduction is available.
Full Symposium Agenda, Registration and CLE
Payment
There is no fee to attend the symposium, but registration is
required. To view the full symposium agenda, to register to attend,
and to pay for CLE, please visit the
symposium website.
More Information
Paula Edwards
Centers Assistant
edwardsp@stjohns.edu
(718) 990-6653
Special thanks to Fred Braid ’71 and Ronald Russo ’73
for generously underwriting some of the costs of the
symposium.