Our good friend and player advocate, disability attorney John Hogan, was able to attend that Symposium held at the Baltimore School of Law on Thursday. Here are his notes from that day:
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Associate Professor Dionne Koller,
Baltimore Ravens,
Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Plan Retirement Board,
Dave Pear,
Dick Cass,
Director of the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Retirement Plan,
Doug Ell,
ERISA,
Freeman McNeil,
Groom Law Group,
Harold Henderson,
James Hall,
John Hogan Disability Attorney,
Law School Dean Phillip J. Closius,
Pat Moriarty,
Richard Berthelsen,
Sarah Gaunt,
Stephen Haas M.D.,
Tom Condon,
Trace Armstrong,
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The University of Baltimore School of Law held their first Annual Sports Law Symposium today. This year’s conference was From Rookie to Retirement: The NFL Universe in the New Economy and you can read the agenda on their site HERE. Here’s a list of the speakers (the usual suspects) and their topics: continue reading »
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Mary Moran,
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NFLPA Benefits,
Richard Berthelsen,
Sarah Gaunt,
Tom Condon,
Trace Armstrong,
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It’s been all over the media this past week that the candidate list for NFLPA Executive Director has been narrowed down to three choices: Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong and DeMaurice Smith. Other than the fluffy short bios that nothing more than standard NFLPA Press Releases, what do the majority of the players really know about these finalists? So far, all most people really know about these three finalists is that Troy Vincent had managed to fall out of favor with Gene Upshaw by bringing up the idea of a succession plan to replace Upshaw. Then there was the recent drama of NFLPA Director of Human Resources Mary Moran calling her Daddy Congressman Jim Moran to “investigate” Vincent’s alleged communications with several other Congressmen about the convoluted process of selecting a new Executive Director. Apparently, a lot of well-paid Upshaw insiders are really worried about keeping their cushy jobs so the choice is going to be very important for them (but shouldn’t be any of their business). But other than the drama and internal office politics, there’s little else that seems to have been made public about the process and the candidates themselves.
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