Panelists
Entertainment in the Northwest [Presented by Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt]
Javier Zamora is an Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department at NIKE, Inc. headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Javier’s practice primarily focuses on entertainment law and global brand marketing where he provides support and advice to NIKE and its affiliates on a wide variety of domestic and international music, film, television, event, and digital marketing projects. Prior to joining NIKE, Javier was an attorney at the national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP based in Chicago, Illinois. Javier also served as an infantry Captain in the U.S. Army and conducted a one year tour of duty in Iraq from 2004 - 2005.
Bart Day is a partner at the Portland law firm of Day and Koch LLP and has a national entertainment law and copyright/trademark practice. He has more than 25 years experience providing legal counsel for a vast array of film, television, music, stage, digital media, and book publishing projects, and his current work includes several network television series. He has previously worked as an attorney for a Honolulu concert promotion company, as VP of Business Affairs for a Los Angeles entertainment company, and as outside counsel for Universal Studios. He is on the board of directors of The Recording Academy, Pacific NW Chapter (presenter of the Grammy Awards), regularly speaks at national entertainment industry conferences, and has co-authored two books on various legal aspects of the entertainment industry.
Matthew Hooper serves as Chair of the Arts & Entertainment Group at Foster Pepper. Having served as a film producer, entertainment executive and business consultant prior to practicing law, Matt brings extensive industry experience and knowledge to Foster Pepper's Arts and Entertainment law group. As former CEO of an online proprietary television network viewed in 44 countries, he understands the unique pressures facing high-level executives and anticipates and helps clients avoid legal entertainment, internet, and intellectual property issues. Specific legal activities include software, hardware, and entertainment-based license agreements, talent contracts, distribution agreements, intellectual property litigation, and contract negotiations.
Moderator: Mike Cohen is a Shareholder at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in Portland. Mike’s practice primarily focuses on trademark, copyright, entertainment, advertising, new media and digital marketing issues, including licensing, transactions and litigation. He has a wide array of experience negotiating music, film, television, literary publishing, personal appearance and other royalty agreements, and enforcing and defending the rights of artists and celebrities through litigation, and has represented national and local artists such as Green Day, Phish, Storm Large and Curtis Salgado. Prior to embarking on his legal career, Mike was General Manager and Chief Talent Buyer for Pacific Northwest concert promotion firm Double Tee Concerts, where he worked with national touring talent such as the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, Red Hot Chili Peppers and countless others.
Women in Sports and Entertainment
Peg Brand, Ph. D., is a Courtesy Associate Professor with the University of Oregon School of Law and the Robert D. Clark Honors College and an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University. Mrs. Brand has authored many articles on aesthetics and feminist philosophy and is the editor of Beauty Revisited (forthcoming, Indiana University Press). Dr. Brand taught philosophy from 1989-1994 at the University of Oregon while also serving as First Lady. She is the widow of Myles Brand, former President of the University of Oregon, Indiana University, and the NCAA.
Ellen Devlin is an Adjunct Professor of Sports Products at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. After running track and cross country at the University of Oregon in the 1970’s and participating in the Olympic time trials in 1980, Ellen had a long and successful career under Bill Bowerman in the Product Development group at NIKE. Her current pet project is a film documenting the legacy of Title IX and the history of the women’s track program at the University of Oregon.
Eryn Potempa is an attorney in the Sports Marketing group at NIKE, Inc.. Eryn attended law school at Lewis & Clark College while working for NIKE as contract specialist. After graduation, she began her career as a full-fledged lawyer for NIKE in the U.S. Immigration group, then moved to the Commercial practice group in 2009 where she supported Entertainment Brand Marketing. Her experience includes drafting licensing agreements with EA Sports and incoming licensing with musicians and artists for use in NIKE’s products. Her current work focuses on Emerging Markets in South America and Southeast Asia and she is responsible for all licensing and sponsorship agreements with the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Lynne Graybeal is a Partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle and serves as Co-Chair of their Arts, Entertainment & Sports Industry Group. Her practice focuses on trademark and copyright law, Internet and social media issues, licensing and intellectual property-related transactions, and arts and entertainment law. Lynne has worked with authors, artists, musicians, game developers, publishers, and professional sports teams in entertainment-related matters involving publishing, literary rights, publicity rights, art, theatre, music, film and television. She has taught Trademark Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Moderator: Whitney Wagoner Whitney Wagoner is Senior Instructor of Sports Business/Industry Analyst for the University of Oregon's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. A 1996 graduate of the University of Oregon, she spent seven years in a variety of marketing positions with the National Football League in New York. While at the NFL, she was responsible for the management of several key sponsorship programs including Motorola, Sony and IBM. Whitney also earned an MBA in Marketing & Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Whitney returned to the Warsaw Center in 2003 to teach various sports business courses at both the undergraduate and MBA level, including Sports Marketing and Sports Sponsorship. In 2008, she won the Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Dean's College Service Award at the Lundquist College of Business.
The Changing Face of the NCAA
Woodie Dixon serves as General Counsel and Vice President of Business Affairs for the Pacific-12 Conference. Mr. Dixon graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999, and went on the work as the in-house counsel for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mr. Dixon also taught Sports Law at Washburn University School of Law as an adjunct professor.
Maureen Weston is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor Weston graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Colorado School of Law and went on to work for numerous firms before teaching at the University of Oklahoma. The author of casebooks on sports law and arbitration, Professor Weston is an expert in the legal field of sports law.
John Shukie is Director of Academic and Membership Affairs (AMA) at the NCAA in Indianapolis. John graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a double major in History and Spanish, where he was a football student-athlete. He went on to earn a Masters degree in Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a law degree from The University of Chicago Law School. John joined the NCAA Enforcement Department in January 2006 as Assistant Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities, after practicing law at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston. John joined the Academic and Membership Affairs staff in October 2008. As a Director in AMA, John oversees administration of all NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program (APP) data, including the NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR), Graduation Success Rate (GSR), NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program Data Review Process and the Head Coaches' APR portfolio. He also oversees the initial-eligibility waiver process, the work of the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance in penalty hearings, the work of the NCAA High School Review Committee and NCAA Eligibility Center high school review team.
Jerry Parkinson: is a Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law since 1998 and served as Dean from 1998 to 2009. Parkinson teaches Civil Procedure, Indian Law, and an Education Law seminar. From 2000 to 2010 he served in a volunteer capacity as Coordinator of Appeals for the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, and handled 28 appeals, including 22 oral arguments, on behalf of the NCAA.
Moderator: Benjamin Golliver is a Northwest sports journalist. Based in Portland, OR, Ben writes about the NBA for CBSSports.com and has covered the Trail Blazers for Blazersedge.com since 2007. Writing primarily about baseketball, Ben has been featured in The Oregonian, the Vancouver Columbian, and the Arizona Republic. Ben is a frequent speaker and television guest on sports programs in the Northwest. Ben graduated from the writing seminar at Johns Hopkins University.
The Rise of the Agent
Richard Karcher is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law. Mr. Karcher is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Law and a former professional baseball player. He has published numerous articles on the business and regulation of sports agents and is a frequent speaker on topics related to sports and sports law.
Audie Attar is President of Paradigm Sports Management, LLC. A former football player at University of California, Los Angeles, Mr. Attar has an MBA and an MCDR from Pepperdine University. Mr. Attar has a broad range of experience in sports marketing and management.
Eugene T. Lee, Esq., is President of ETL Associates, Inc., an up-and-coming agency in NFL player representation, and was featured in Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “The Dotted Line” about the inside world of sports agents. Eugene picked up his first sports client while playing pickup basketball in law school at Notre Dame. In an industry known for its greed, scandals and ruthlessness, Eugene prides himself on maintaining a sense of integrity and drawing strength from his faith while swimming with sharks.
Moderator: Professor Mark Phelps is the Tykeson Senior Instructor of International and Sports Business Law and Ethics in the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business and its Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. He earned his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law and an MBA from the University of Oregon’s College of Business. For over 35 years he has been legal counsel to entrepreneurs, including clients in the sports and entertainment industries, as well as teaching a variety of international and sports business law and ethics courses for undergraduate, MBA and executive MBA students. He also has experience as the principal owner and manager of a sports recreation facility company.
Javier Zamora is an Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department at NIKE, Inc. headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. Javier’s practice primarily focuses on entertainment law and global brand marketing where he provides support and advice to NIKE and its affiliates on a wide variety of domestic and international music, film, television, event, and digital marketing projects. Prior to joining NIKE, Javier was an attorney at the national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP based in Chicago, Illinois. Javier also served as an infantry Captain in the U.S. Army and conducted a one year tour of duty in Iraq from 2004 - 2005.
Bart Day is a partner at the Portland law firm of Day and Koch LLP and has a national entertainment law and copyright/trademark practice. He has more than 25 years experience providing legal counsel for a vast array of film, television, music, stage, digital media, and book publishing projects, and his current work includes several network television series. He has previously worked as an attorney for a Honolulu concert promotion company, as VP of Business Affairs for a Los Angeles entertainment company, and as outside counsel for Universal Studios. He is on the board of directors of The Recording Academy, Pacific NW Chapter (presenter of the Grammy Awards), regularly speaks at national entertainment industry conferences, and has co-authored two books on various legal aspects of the entertainment industry.
Matthew Hooper serves as Chair of the Arts & Entertainment Group at Foster Pepper. Having served as a film producer, entertainment executive and business consultant prior to practicing law, Matt brings extensive industry experience and knowledge to Foster Pepper's Arts and Entertainment law group. As former CEO of an online proprietary television network viewed in 44 countries, he understands the unique pressures facing high-level executives and anticipates and helps clients avoid legal entertainment, internet, and intellectual property issues. Specific legal activities include software, hardware, and entertainment-based license agreements, talent contracts, distribution agreements, intellectual property litigation, and contract negotiations.
Moderator: Mike Cohen is a Shareholder at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt in Portland. Mike’s practice primarily focuses on trademark, copyright, entertainment, advertising, new media and digital marketing issues, including licensing, transactions and litigation. He has a wide array of experience negotiating music, film, television, literary publishing, personal appearance and other royalty agreements, and enforcing and defending the rights of artists and celebrities through litigation, and has represented national and local artists such as Green Day, Phish, Storm Large and Curtis Salgado. Prior to embarking on his legal career, Mike was General Manager and Chief Talent Buyer for Pacific Northwest concert promotion firm Double Tee Concerts, where he worked with national touring talent such as the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffett, Red Hot Chili Peppers and countless others.
Women in Sports and Entertainment
Peg Brand, Ph. D., is a Courtesy Associate Professor with the University of Oregon School of Law and the Robert D. Clark Honors College and an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University. Mrs. Brand has authored many articles on aesthetics and feminist philosophy and is the editor of Beauty Revisited (forthcoming, Indiana University Press). Dr. Brand taught philosophy from 1989-1994 at the University of Oregon while also serving as First Lady. She is the widow of Myles Brand, former President of the University of Oregon, Indiana University, and the NCAA.
Ellen Devlin is an Adjunct Professor of Sports Products at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. After running track and cross country at the University of Oregon in the 1970’s and participating in the Olympic time trials in 1980, Ellen had a long and successful career under Bill Bowerman in the Product Development group at NIKE. Her current pet project is a film documenting the legacy of Title IX and the history of the women’s track program at the University of Oregon.
Eryn Potempa is an attorney in the Sports Marketing group at NIKE, Inc.. Eryn attended law school at Lewis & Clark College while working for NIKE as contract specialist. After graduation, she began her career as a full-fledged lawyer for NIKE in the U.S. Immigration group, then moved to the Commercial practice group in 2009 where she supported Entertainment Brand Marketing. Her experience includes drafting licensing agreements with EA Sports and incoming licensing with musicians and artists for use in NIKE’s products. Her current work focuses on Emerging Markets in South America and Southeast Asia and she is responsible for all licensing and sponsorship agreements with the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Lynne Graybeal is a Partner at Perkins Coie in Seattle and serves as Co-Chair of their Arts, Entertainment & Sports Industry Group. Her practice focuses on trademark and copyright law, Internet and social media issues, licensing and intellectual property-related transactions, and arts and entertainment law. Lynne has worked with authors, artists, musicians, game developers, publishers, and professional sports teams in entertainment-related matters involving publishing, literary rights, publicity rights, art, theatre, music, film and television. She has taught Trademark Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Moderator: Whitney Wagoner Whitney Wagoner is Senior Instructor of Sports Business/Industry Analyst for the University of Oregon's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. A 1996 graduate of the University of Oregon, she spent seven years in a variety of marketing positions with the National Football League in New York. While at the NFL, she was responsible for the management of several key sponsorship programs including Motorola, Sony and IBM. Whitney also earned an MBA in Marketing & Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Whitney returned to the Warsaw Center in 2003 to teach various sports business courses at both the undergraduate and MBA level, including Sports Marketing and Sports Sponsorship. In 2008, she won the Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Dean's College Service Award at the Lundquist College of Business.
The Changing Face of the NCAA
Woodie Dixon serves as General Counsel and Vice President of Business Affairs for the Pacific-12 Conference. Mr. Dixon graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999, and went on the work as the in-house counsel for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mr. Dixon also taught Sports Law at Washburn University School of Law as an adjunct professor.
Maureen Weston is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor Weston graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Colorado School of Law and went on to work for numerous firms before teaching at the University of Oklahoma. The author of casebooks on sports law and arbitration, Professor Weston is an expert in the legal field of sports law.
John Shukie is Director of Academic and Membership Affairs (AMA) at the NCAA in Indianapolis. John graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College with a double major in History and Spanish, where he was a football student-athlete. He went on to earn a Masters degree in Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a law degree from The University of Chicago Law School. John joined the NCAA Enforcement Department in January 2006 as Assistant Director of Agent, Gambling and Amateurism Activities, after practicing law at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston. John joined the Academic and Membership Affairs staff in October 2008. As a Director in AMA, John oversees administration of all NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program (APP) data, including the NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR), Graduation Success Rate (GSR), NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program Data Review Process and the Head Coaches' APR portfolio. He also oversees the initial-eligibility waiver process, the work of the NCAA Division I Committee on Academic Performance in penalty hearings, the work of the NCAA High School Review Committee and NCAA Eligibility Center high school review team.
Jerry Parkinson: is a Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming College of Law since 1998 and served as Dean from 1998 to 2009. Parkinson teaches Civil Procedure, Indian Law, and an Education Law seminar. From 2000 to 2010 he served in a volunteer capacity as Coordinator of Appeals for the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, and handled 28 appeals, including 22 oral arguments, on behalf of the NCAA.
Moderator: Benjamin Golliver is a Northwest sports journalist. Based in Portland, OR, Ben writes about the NBA for CBSSports.com and has covered the Trail Blazers for Blazersedge.com since 2007. Writing primarily about baseketball, Ben has been featured in The Oregonian, the Vancouver Columbian, and the Arizona Republic. Ben is a frequent speaker and television guest on sports programs in the Northwest. Ben graduated from the writing seminar at Johns Hopkins University.
The Rise of the Agent
Richard Karcher is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Law and Sports at Florida Coastal School of Law. Mr. Karcher is a graduate of Michigan State University College of Law and a former professional baseball player. He has published numerous articles on the business and regulation of sports agents and is a frequent speaker on topics related to sports and sports law.
Audie Attar is President of Paradigm Sports Management, LLC. A former football player at University of California, Los Angeles, Mr. Attar has an MBA and an MCDR from Pepperdine University. Mr. Attar has a broad range of experience in sports marketing and management.
Eugene T. Lee, Esq., is President of ETL Associates, Inc., an up-and-coming agency in NFL player representation, and was featured in Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “The Dotted Line” about the inside world of sports agents. Eugene picked up his first sports client while playing pickup basketball in law school at Notre Dame. In an industry known for its greed, scandals and ruthlessness, Eugene prides himself on maintaining a sense of integrity and drawing strength from his faith while swimming with sharks.
Moderator: Professor Mark Phelps is the Tykeson Senior Instructor of International and Sports Business Law and Ethics in the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business and its Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. He earned his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law and an MBA from the University of Oregon’s College of Business. For over 35 years he has been legal counsel to entrepreneurs, including clients in the sports and entertainment industries, as well as teaching a variety of international and sports business law and ethics courses for undergraduate, MBA and executive MBA students. He also has experience as the principal owner and manager of a sports recreation facility company.
