Welcome to a New (Bar) Year
Dear Members of the Sports & Entertainment Law Section:
I am so honored to have the privilege to serve as chair of the section this bar year.
For those who don’t know me: I am a lawyer in Wilmington with a practice focused on esports and content creators. I started my career by clerking for James C. Fox here in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina before joining Brooks Pierce, where I litigated a variety of matters and built my current practice. Last September, I joined former section chair Brandon Huffman and the crew at Odin Law and Media. I also spent the better part of the last year doing business operations for a video game startup.
This year, as the NCBA navigates what will, I hope, be a shift from ‘pandemic’ to ‘endemic’ (or better), our goals for the section will continue to be flexible. That said, I hope that we can find ways to safely gather and resume camaraderie (while maintaining distance attendance via Zoom and other electronic means). My primary goal is to plan and find useful, subsidized CLEs and section events and to make those primarily for in-person attendance, but also available for those who can only attend remotely. I hope to start announcing events, CLEs, and other chances to meet up sometime in the next quarter.
I hope this will go well, and I know the section has a great council and leadership team supporting it. Thanks to everyone for your efforts in pushing the section forward through the pandemic.
I would also urge you to get involved — if you haven’t already — by going to the section’s web page and logging into the message board, joining a committee, or just by sending me an email! Please let me know how the section and I can best serve you.
Also, a last reminder: renew your membership before the July 31 deadline!