Title:11th Annual GEMALaw Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium

RSVP for the GEMALaw Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium to be held on February 9, 2018. The GEMALaw Symposium is a full day event featuring various panels addressing hot button issues in the sports, entertainment and media industries.

The Symposium also provides students an opportunity to interact with prominent Georgetown alumni in the media, sports and entertainment industries, while also allowing alumni to network with each other. During the Symposium, GEMALaw presents a distinguished alumnus with the GEMALaw Alumni Achievement Award.
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The 11th Annual GEMALaw Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium
Friday, February 9, 2018 | Georgetown Law | Hart Auditorium | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/agm8F7XnGJ93k9X63.
Questions? Contact Mahin Aminian (ma1432@georgetown.edu) & Rachael Connelly (rc1207@georgetown.edu)
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SCHEDULE
10:00-10:15 AM
Opening Remarks, Mahin Aminian & Rachael Connelly, GEMALaw Co-Presidents
10:15-11:45 AM
Trending Topics in Untraditional Mediums (Live Events, Theater & Reality TV)
Moderator: Jeffrey D. Schneider, EVP, Business & Legal Affairs, National Geographic Partners
Joseph Anderson (L’09), Attorney, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Julie Angell (L’06), Associate, Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C.
Paul Mecurio (L’85), Comedian, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Bo Pearl (L’98), Managing Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Danielle Schiffman (L’11), Director of Business & Legal Affairs, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Amaryllis Seabrooks, Business Affairs Executive, William Morris Endeavor
12:00-1:30 PM
How New Media and Evolving Audience Demands Affect Sports Law
Moderator: Brad Snyder, Georgetown University Law Center
Jonathan Amoona (L’09), Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
Tim Browne (L’01), Counsel, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
Zach Leonsis (MBA’15), Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Riana Positano (L’11), Senior Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs, The Madison Square Garden Company
Aaron Swerdlow (L’11), Of Counsel, Gerard Fox Law, P.C.
Peter Zern (L’98), Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
1:30-1:45 PM
Presentation of the Alumni Achievement Award to Raquel Braun (L’10)
Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs, FOX Sports and Founder, GEMALaw
1:45-2:30 PM
Networking Lunch
2:30-3:30 PM
The New Age of Copyright & Clearances
Moderator: Jay Rosenthal (LL.M ’89), Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Erich Carey, VP & Senior Counsel, National Music Publishers Association
Hans Hertell (L’09), Special Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Richard Stone, Partner, Co-Chair of Content, Media & Entertainment, Jenner & Block
Regina Thomas (L’99), Global Lead, Copyright & Media Law, AOL + Yahoo = Oath, Inc.
Aaron Wais (L’01), Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
3:30-3:40 PM
Closing Remarks
3:40-5:00 PM
Networking Reception

*Additional Speakers Pending
CLE Credit Available

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by February 7, 2018 to Mahin Aminian and Rachael Connelly via email or by contacting (559) 970-4498 or (310) 430-2750.