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Speaker's Corner

Rewriting the Athletics Playbook: Legal and Practical Issues Arising from Alston and NIL Developments

Speaker Biographies

Pamela J. Bernard is Vice President & General Counsel of Duke University. Ms. Bernard is responsible for overseeing a variety of legal issues, including litigation, student and employment issues, health law, research, taxation, insurance, athletics, corporate and transactional matters and liability issues for both Duke University and Duke University Health System. Prior to coming to Duke, she was Vice President and General Counsel to the University of Florida and directed its governing board operations.

Ms. Bernard is a past President of NACUA and was awarded NACUA's Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to the field of higher education law practice. She has served on numerous national committees or task forces over the past three decades, including the Association of American Governing Boards, the American Association of Research Universities, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. She is a frequent speaker on legal issues and has authored papers and other publications relating to higher education law including authoring the Legal Standpoint column for AGB's Trusteeship Magazine from 2007 - 2011.

Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane Sports Law Program and Tulane University's associate provost for NCAA compliance, is one of the leading voices in the country in the growing field of sports law. Named the Paul and Abram B. Barron Associate Professor of Law in 2015, he also is co-founder and co-director of the Tulane Center for Sport.

Feldman's extensive experience in sports law includes representing a variety of sports entities while he was in private practice, and he continues to act as a consultant for a number of clients in the sports industry.

Feldman joined the Tulane Law faculty in 2005 after nearly five years as an associate with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as judicial clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla.

He is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other newspapers throughout the country, and he has made numerous appearances on national television and radio. He currently serves as the on-air legal analyst for the NFL Network.

Feldman is editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal, a law journal devoted to the study of sports law, and The Sports Lawyer, a monthly online newsletter, and was a sports law contributor to the now-defunct Grantland.com and the Sports Law Blog. He is director of publications for the Sports Lawyers Association; co-authored of one of the leading sports law casebooks in the country, Sports Law: Cases and Materials; is on the Articles Review Board for the Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport; and has been published in a variety of journals and periodicals. Much of his writing focuses on the intersection of antitrust, labor, intellectual property law and the sports industry. He also serves as a mediator and arbitrator.

Feldman sits on the board of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, Walk Again Athletic Warriors and Athletes for Hope, a nonprofit organization created to harness the power of sports to impact social change. He also is the director of Special Olympics in New Orleans and is a member of the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.

He teaches Antitrust, Sports Law, Negotiation and Mediation and Contracts. In 2013, he received a President's Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching, a Tulane University recognition of excellence in teaching, learning and research

Mr. Bharath Parthasarathy is the Deputy General Counsel at Georgia State University, where he is responsible for corporate, athletics, eSports, and higher education matters. As counsel to the University's Department of Athletics, Mr. Parthasarathy is involved with all aspects of intercollegiate athletics, including coaching contracts, digital/media/tv rights, and conference realignment. In Summer 2014, Mr. Parthasarathy served as the University's Interim Director of Athletics. Additionally, Mr. Parthasarathy co-heads the University's eSports Program. Prior to Georgia State University, Mr. Parthasarathy was an Associate in the Atlanta Office of Alston & Bird LLP. Mr. Parthasarathy holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and the Emory School of Law.