{"id":288,"date":"2017-01-03T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/?p=288"},"modified":"2017-01-03T15:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:49:17","slug":"duane-morris-hosts-high-stakes-games-betting-on-sports-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2017\/01\/03\/duane-morris-hosts-high-stakes-games-betting-on-sports-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane Morris Hosts \u201cHigh-Stakes Games: Betting on Sports\u201d Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris, the Sports Business and Leadership Association and the Sports Lawyers Association will be hosting the roundtable discussion, \u201cHigh-Stakes Games: Betting on Sports,\u201d on Thursday, January 26, 2017 in Miami, Florida. This in-depth roundtable discussion will focus on the key issues and high stakes of sports betting and will feature sports and gaming industry executives, lawyers and pro-team executives. Duane Morris partner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherlsoriano.html\">Christopher L. Soriano<\/a>, of the firm\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/cherryhill.html\">Cherry Hill office<\/a>, will moderate the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Speakers: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Frank, Director, Legal Affairs, Amaya<\/li>\n<li>Myles Pistorius, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Miami Dolphins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Topics to be discussed include: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current state of sports betting in the United States<\/li>\n<li>New developments in gaming law<\/li>\n<li>The pro team\u2019s view on expanding sports betting<\/li>\n<li>Online and offshore wagering on games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Duane Morris Sports Practice Advantage<sup>SM<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nDuane Morris attorneys have extensive experience representing clients doing business in sports. Whether pursuing new opportunities or investments, enforcing contracts or agreements or protecting clients&#8217; rights, the firm&#8217;s lawyers understand the unique issues presented by operating in the industry, including the importance of establishing and maintaining relationships, controlling sensitive information, maintaining privacy and confidentiality and achieving goals in tight time frames.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Sports Business and Leadership Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sports Business and Leadership Association (\u201cSBLA\u201d) is a non-profit charitable organization whose members are professionals working in the sports business industry. The SBLA\u2019s core mission is to organize an affinity group of legal professionals working in the sports business industry and to educate them on trending sports business issues and concerns. The SBLA\u2019s goal is to raise money to provide underprivileged children with the financial means to attend a summer sports camp at a university (the \u201cSBLA Scholarship Program\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Sports Lawyers Association<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) is a nonprofit, international, professional organization whose common goal is the understanding, advancement and ethical practice of sports law. There are more than 1,000 current members: practicing lawyers, law educators, law students and other professionals with an interest in law relating to professional and amateur sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Morris, the Sports Business and Leadership Association and the Sports Lawyers Association will be hosting the roundtable discussion, \u201cHigh-Stakes Games: Betting on Sports,\u201d on Thursday, January 26, 2017 in Miami, Florida. This in-depth roundtable discussion will focus on the key issues and high stakes of sports betting and will feature sports and gaming industry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2017\/01\/03\/duane-morris-hosts-high-stakes-games-betting-on-sports-roundtable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duane Morris Hosts \u201cHigh-Stakes Games: Betting on Sports\u201d Roundtable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[195,193,194,14,167,192,191,67,196],"ppma_author":[271],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-betting","tag-cherry-hill","tag-cherry-hill-office","tag-chris-soriano","tag-christopher-soriano","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-sports-betting","tag-sports-practice-advantage"],"authors":[{"term_id":271,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}