Jeffrey Benz is featured speaker at Sports Lawyer Association's Annual Conference, May 10-12, in San Diego.

Beverly Hills, California - May 7th, 2012.

Jeffrey G. Benz of the Agency for Dispute Resolution, will be a featured speaker at the 38th Annual Conference of the Sports Lawyers Association, which will be held on May 10-12, 2012 in San Diego, California. Benz will be featured at a session title “ADR Issues in the Olympics and the Major Sports” alongside NFL and NBA arbitrator, Roger Kaplan. The conference is designed for attorneys, agents, representatives of professional athletes, professional sports teams and leagues, players associations, stadium and arena authorities, and companies involved with all forms of sports.

With a wide range of experience in sports law and ADR as an attorney, arbitrator and mediator, and as an adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute, Benz will be offering his insights on the intersection of dispute resolution and the sports industry. Benz is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Sports Lawyers Association. Benz will be teaching a course on Olympic sports arbitration in London, on the eve of the Olympic Games, for Pepperdine in July 2012.
Jeffrey Benz joined the Agency for Dispute Resolution’s distinguished panel of skilled peacemakers and creative problem solvers in 2011, to lead the sports and entertainment mediation and arbitration group.

Agency for Dispute Resolution is a premier provider of alternative dispute resolution services to lawyers, companies and individuals with seemingly intractable conflicts. Our celebrated panel of neutrals includes trained mediators, superior arbitrators, former top-tier judges, senior attorneys, skilled peacemakers and creative problem-solvers that possess unique expertise in a broad range of practice areas.

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