Symposium explores 'Art of Representation'

10/05/2007

Symposium explores 'Art of Representation'
     "The Art of Representation," with a focus on the relationship between talent and agency, is the focus of the annual Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium on Oct. 18 in the Great Hall.
     Mike Kennedy, co-founding partner of Gallagher and Kennedy, and chairman of the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, will give the keynote at 9:30 a.m.
     A sports panel at 10 a.m. will be moderated by Brian Mueller, a sports and entertainment attorney at Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre & Friedlander, and will include: Kennedy; Tim "King Fish" Salmon, a former major league baseball player for the Anaheim Angels; Jim Kuzmich, vice president and general counsel for Gaames, a Scottsdale company that represents professional baseball players; Pat Murphy, ASU's head coach for baseball; and Nona Lee, vice president and general counsel for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
     An entertainment panel at 1 p.m. will be moderated by Brent Roam, a third-year law student, actor and musician, and will include: Richard Schulenberg, an independent entertainment attorney from Beverly Hills, Calif.; Booker T. Evans, an entertainment attorney at Greenberg Traurig in Phoenix; Gary Goldman, former head of Fox Animation, animator and animated film director and producer with the Bluth Group in Phoenix; Matt Connelly, a licensing executive director for McFarlane Toys in Tempe; and Connie J. Mableson, an entertainment attorney with Dodge, Anderson, Mableson, Steiner, Jones & Horowitz in Phoenix.
     Breakfast and lunch will be served.
     The event is sponsored by the Sports and Entertainment Law Students Association, the W.P. Carey Sports Business M.B.A. Program, ASU's Herberger College School of Theatre and Film and ASU's Graduate and Professional Students Assembly.
     It is free, but attorneys may register for up to four hours of CLE credit for $150.
     For more information, contact Scott Seymann, president of SELSA, at 480-365-8000, or scott.seymann@asu.edu.
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