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Part I: Q&A on Name, Image and Likeness with Athletics Veritas
CCHA Sports Law attorneys, Kelleigh Fagan and Katie Collyer, tackled questions on the NIL frontier with Athletics Veritas. Athletics Veritas is a weekly series aimed at helping higher education executives, faculty, and other stakeholders stay tuned in on...
2020 Quarter 4 Case Summaries
NEGOTIATED RESOLUTION Charleston Southern October 7, 2020 Key Takeaways • This case should serve as a cautionary tale – even casual or social conversations may be treated as violations of the transfer communication rules. • We are continuing to see more strict...
Julie Roe Lach Named Horizon League Commissioner
CCHA Collegiate Sports Consulting started over 5 years ago with a small team of two lawyers -- Julie Roe Lach and Kelleigh Fagan. Today, CCHA Collegiate and CCHA Sports Law group has expanded to seven team members with over 50 years of NCAA experience and...
2020 Quarter 3 Case Summaries
It’s All Virtual 2020’s most used terms have to include Zoom, Microsoft Teams, GoTo Meeting, Cisco Webex, Slack and others. We’ve used Zoom for virtual hearings with the NCAA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some advantages and disadvantages from our virtual...
LEAD1 Launches Podcast and Video Series with Kelleigh Fagan
Title IX's Implications on NIL, Considerations for Cutting Sports and Students Return to Campus Kelleigh Fagan recently sat down with CEO of Lead1, Tom McMillen, to talk about a number of legal issues currently evolving in the collegiate sports world on a daily...
2020 Quarter 2 Case Summaries
June 18, 2020 University of Idaho Negotiated Resolution Level: Level II-Standard for Institution and Head Coach Key Takeaways The COI accepted the enforcement staff and institution’s position that the school did not fail to monitor its athletics program because...
Part 1: Navigating the Future College Athletics World of Name, Image and Likeness
On Friday, May 8th, we conducted a national webinar with Women Leaders in College Sports on Name, Image and Likeness. This 45 minute webinar is an easy-to-follow explanation of how we got here, what is being proposed, and what issues remain. Link to Webinar...
Covid-19 and Title IX: Ramifications of Budget Cuts on Gender Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a tidal wave of unforeseen consequences around the globe. Most of us never could have predicted a March with a very different kind of madness, one absent sneakers squeaking on wood floors and goosebump-inducing comebacks fit for One...
Molly Richman Weighs in on Sneaker Companies and the NCAA
What happens if the NCAA succeeds in labeling sneaker companies as boosters? By: Seth Davis May 7, 2020 CCHA Collegiate Senior Advisor and CCHA Law Attorney, Molly Richman, weighs in with Seth Davis here on sneaker companies and the NCAA. On Monday, the NCAA served...