Negotiators Describe Collective Bargaining at Sports Symposium

University of Pennsylvania Law Journal  

A number of speakers, including famed executive director of the baseball players union, Don Fehr, took up the contentious issue of professional sports and collective bargaining at the Journal of Labor & Employment Law Symposium last January.

Fehr spoke about salary arbitration. He was joined by Roger Abrams, a professor at Northeastern Law School who is a salary arbitrator for Major League Baseball, and Josh Alloy L'01, an associate at Proskauer Rose. Another group of panelists discussed players' rights in the National Basketball Association, focusing on the dress code and DNA testing.   The panelists were Alan Milstein, a partner at Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky who represents NBA players; Hal Biagas, deputy counsel for the NBA; and Michael McCann, assistant professor at Mississippi College School of Law and widely quoted sports law expert. Moderators were Scott Rosner L'97, associate director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and lecturer in Legal Studies and Business Ethics at Wharton; and N. Jeremi Duru, assistant professor at Temple Law School.