NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
Examining the New NCAA Transfer Rules and Tampering - Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Settlement - Highway to NIL Podcast
Are Colleges Prepared to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees?
Post-Injunction Enforcement — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Unionizes: Air Ball or Nothing But Net?
The Burr Broadcast: Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Unionization Efforts Explained
The NCAA's Response to the NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
Navigating the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics: Implications of the Dartmouth College Student-Athlete Labor Decision
NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
Proof in Trial: University of Louisville
State AGs File NIL Antitrust Lawsuits — Highway to NIL Podcast
2024 NIL Predictions — Highway to NIL Podcast
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 4: NIL Developments with Andy Johnson, Co-Founder of Hail! Impact
NCAA Division I Council Approves New NIL Disclosure and Transparency Rules — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA President Proposes Radical Changes to NIL Rules — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Antitrust Litigation - Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Senate Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
How to Manage Name, Image, and Likeness: Air – Hiring to Firing Podcast
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Oct. 26, 2022, offered new guidance on Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) activities of universities, student-athletes (SA) and other entities supporting the NIL industry. In...more
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Last summer, the NCAA allowed student-athletes to be paid for the use of their names, images, and likenesses (“NIL”), but did not issue formal guidance on the matter. That changed on May 9, 2022, when the NCAA’s Division One...more
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