This course will help you develop a contract negotiating strategy that will maximize the athletes compensation, and the athletes value on and off the field. Hosted by Joe Starkey, longtime voice of the 49ers and Cal Bears and former sports director for KGO AM, this program features noted Bay Area sports attorney Steve Baker, whose clients include many high profile NFL players, including former 49er QB Jeff Garcia. One of Steve Bakers clients, Nnamdi Asomugha, DB for the Oakland Raiders, offers the athletes perspective on attorney selection and related issues.

- Explain the role and qualities of the Athlete Representative in professional sports.
- Define the non-statutory labor exemption in sports law and how it affects antitrust laws.
- Explain the impact of collective bargaining on player contracts.
- Identify at least six issues to address when negotiating an athletes contract.
- Identify strategies used to deal with salary caps.

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Speakers:

Steve Baker Baker Sports, San Francisco. Steve Baker is a nationally known San Francisco-based sports attorney and adjunct law professor at Golden Gate School of Law. He has negotiated millions of dollars of precedent setting NFL contracts for such players as Cleveland Browns' QB Jeff Garcia, Philadelphia Eagles' fullback Jon Ritchie, Oakland Raiders' 2003 1st round draft choice defensive back Nnamdi Asomugha, Houston Texans' linebacker Kailee Wong, 49ers' Linebacker Jamie Winborn and former NFL Pro-Bowlers Ken Harvey, Ray Brown and Brian Mitchell. Mr. Baker has also represented numerous basketball, baseball and broadcasting clients and is frequently interviewed and consulted by the national press on collective bargaining, athlete salaries, and the economic dimensions of the sports marketplace. His firm takes on only a few new clients each year so as to provide a great deal of personal attention to them in contract negotiation, athletic training, off-field marketing and public relations work. His recent marketing deals include the Lincoln Navigator television campaign featuring Jeff Garcia. He is a graduate of Tufts University and Cornell Law School.