Loyola Los Angeles Law School Sports Law Sympsium Saturday April 6

Looks like an excellent event:

SYMPOSIUM: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PLAYER HEALTH AND SAFETY

LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES

ROBINSON COURTROOM

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

MODERATOR: Daniel E. Lazaroff, Cohen Chair in Law and Economics and Director, Loyola Sports Law Institute

CHECK-IN – 8:30 – 9:00 AM

PANEL: DRUGS, DOPING AND DRUG TESTING – 9:00 – 11:00 AM

Adolpho A. Birch III, Senior Vice President of Law & Labor Policy, National Football League

Anthony Butch, Ph.D., Director, UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Matthew Fedoruk, Ph.D., Science Director, United States Anti-Doping Agency

Onye Ikwuakor, Legal Affairs Director, United States Anti-Doping Agency

Maidie E. Oliveau, Counsel, Arent Fox LLP and Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport

BREAK: 11:00 -11:15

PANEL: CONCUSSIONS AND HEAD TRAUMA – 11:15 – 1:15

Modesto (“Doc”) Diaz, Managing Partner, Leviton Diaz and Ginocchio, Workers’ Compensation Attorney

Thomas V. Girardi, Founding Partner, Girardi/Keese and Member, Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame

Joseph M. Miller, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Former Chair, Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board

Tony L. Strickland, M.S., Ph.D., FNAN, FACPN, Chairman & CEO, Sports Concussion Institute and Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

LUNCH: 1:30 – 3:00

Speaker: Ryan Nece, B.A., former UCLA and National Football League linebacker and Pac-12 Network analyst