Innovatively provide opportunities for athletes and entertainers to attain success in life. Enthusiastically search for the latest information regarding sports law and the intersection of sports and technology.
Scrupulously represent talent with a cooperative style, always keeping clients' interests in mind.
Publishing articles in law reviews, mainstream media publications, and online blogs.
Guest speaker at various educational institutions and radio programs.
An Athlete’s Guide to Agents, Fifth Edition is designed to better prepare athletes and their families to screen, select, and work with an agent. It teaches families about the importance of sports agents and allows athletes and their families to be active participants instead of handing all power away to a sports agent upon signing an agency contract.
The article, Duties of Sports Agents to Athletes and Statutory Regulation Thereof, argues that student-athletes should have a statutory right to enforce the duties of sports agents, all sports agents should have to be licensed under a federal registration system, and that there is a need for a self-regulatory commission of sports agents to help weed out the unscrupulous agents who do not fulfill their duties in the representation and solicitation of any athlete.
Manage the day-to-day operations for the full-service sports and talent agency based in the state of Florida. Progressively implement new promotional strategies, leveraging new media whenever possible. Conveniently initiate conversations with the various leaders in the sports business industry.
Continuously write and edit a variety of stories related to breaking news, legal issues, business issues, and other topics of concern. Deliberately grow the largest sports and entertainment agent focused blogs on the internet. Perpetually offer quality and creative assistance for all contributors.
Intrinsically serve as the leader for the Society, which has received the Organization of the Year Award for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years. Energetically recruit prominent guest speakers in the sports and entertainment fields. Assertively chair the globally popular UF Sports Law Symposium.
Responsibly administer the flow of information between the Society and the public. Proactively dispense critical growth options at weekly board meetings.
Member of the "Redemption: Athletes Overcoming Their Indiscretions" panel.
Symposium Discussion titled, "Bargaining Collectively." Three panels during the all-day event: 1) MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement, 2) NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, 3) NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Secured nineteen moderators and panelists which included sports law attorneys, sports law professors, sports agents, executives at professional teams, and other sports business professionals. In charge of budgeting, promotions, sponsorships, and logistics. Secured Keynote Speaker, Dr. Harvey Schiller (Former Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference) and Closing Speaker, Donald M. Fehr (Former Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association).
Member of the "Partnership Activation Rising Stars" panel.
Speech given to the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.
Four discussion topics for the event: Recruiting, Negotiation, Labor Issues, and Future of Sports Business. Secured nineteen moderators and panelists which included sports law attorneys, sports law professors, sports agents, executives at professional teams, and other sports business professionals. In charge of budgeting, promotions, sponsorships, and logistics. Secured Keynote Speaker, Kevin Sullivan (Former Assistant to President Bush for Communications) and Closing Speaker, Bill Rasmussen (Founder of ESPN).
Darren Heitner — dheitner@dynastyreps.com