Illinois (IL) Sports Law CLE Course Catalog

The panel will discuss impacts of recent copyright case law on technology and art.

This CLE will discuss applications of non-fungible tokens to competitive video games including: why and how they may be used, what benefits they may bring, and what intellectual property and contract issues they may create.

Prepare for the unique and complex challenges in representing professional athletes in a divorce, paternity or custody proceedings.

Lawyers and agents both play important roles for clients interested in publishing, marketing, selling, or licensing their works. This panel will discuss the role agents and lawyers play in negotiating deals for their clients and the legal limitations of those interactions. It will also discuss the differences between agents and lawyers and their roles in literary publishing, how and where those roles overlap, and the industry norms and regulations that guide and shape them. Additionally, it will discuss how lawyers and agents can work together to best serve their publishing clients.

Understand the business and legal issues involved in making a sports documentary.

A discussion of strategies and recommendations for efficiently and effectively responding to trademark actions from the United State Trademark and Patent Office.

To explore how different unions and guilds treat Force Majeure events and the impact.