Leigh Steinberg Series for the Protection of Student Athletes: (Part 1) How NIL and Immigration Collided

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Part 1: How NIL and Immigration Collided

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This presentation will focus on the history of the NCAA’s Name, Image and Likeness (“NIL”) policy and how these rules, designed to benefit NCAA student-athletes, resulted in a disparate impact on international athletes participating in NCAA sports. Our discussion will include the following topics:

• The history of NIL, including the right of publicity and the anti-trust litigation that resulted in the adoption of the “NIL” rules by the NCAA.
• An overview of the players in the new NIL industry: collectives, agents, schools, outside counsel.
• The definition of employment under immigration law, and how that definition may differ from those under the DOL and IRS regulations.
• The limitations of the F-1 student visa and permissible employment under that nonimmigrant classification.
• Why current immigration laws offer no legal avenue for most international student-athletes to take advantage of their NIL rights

 

Speakers:

Ksenia Maiorova, Practice Group Leader, Individual and Olympic Athletes, Green & Spiegel, LLC

Flavia Santos-Lloyd, Certified Immigration Specialist by the CA Bar and Founder, Santos Lloyd Law Firm, PC

Dan Lust, Counsel, Morrit Hock & Hamroff, PC

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• Avail. Until: 2/21/2025
• Course Time:   1:00 PM PT
• Duration:   60 min.
• Program Code:   BCLT0030

This course is available to students for free.