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Ask A Sports Law Professor With Professor Marc Edelman

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Ed. note: This is the latest post by Above the Law’s guest conversationalist, Zach Abramowitz, of blogcasting platform ReplyAll. You can see some of his other conversations and musings here.

Back when I was in law school, I convinced Max Kellerman at ESPN Radio NY that his show needed a legal intern. My pitch was, “Whenever you talk about a legal issue in sports, you always say, ‘a lawyer would know the answer to this question.’ Well, I can be that lawyer.” Mind you, I had absolutely no interest in (nor would I have been capable of) providing any kind of legal know-how whatsoever, but I wanted to crack into the sports industry and I felt like this would a good place to start.

While I was at ESPN, I was always looking for interesting guests for the show, especially those with a sports law angle (I was, after all the legal intern), and I read an article by Professor Marc Edelman on NFL suspensions. It was excellent, so I decided to bring him to NYU the following year as a guest speaker on Michael Vick (and why the NFL had no right to punish him), and we’ve kept in touch since. Turns out, I wasn’t the only one who found him interesting; major publishers from 60 Minutes, USA Today, and CNN are constantly quoting Marc on important sports law and business stories. Every once in a while Marc, who is now Associate Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, and I get together for lunch at the 2nd Ave Deli (where we become Jewish parodies of ourselves), and I ask him everything under the sun about sports law. These pastrami and liver excursions always lead to great conversations, and since a bunch of interesting sports law stories have hit the newsfeed recently, I figured it would be a great opportunity to have our usual sports law conversation in a more public setting.

The conversation will go for the next few days and, if you have a question you’d like to ask us, you can do so here. We’ll be answering the very best ones throughout week…

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Zach Abramowitz is a former Biglaw associate and currently CEO and co-founder of ReplyAll. You can follow Zach on Twitter (@zachabramowitz) or reach him by email at zach@replyall.me.

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