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Legal and Medical Risk Considerations for Student-Athletes

Speaker Biographies

Scott Bearby, Vice President of Legal Affairs & General Counsel, National Collegiate Athletic Association

Mr. Bearby was appointed National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) general counsel in January 2013 after serving in various legal positions at the national headquarters since January 1999. As general counsel, Mr. Bearby has day-to-day management of the NCAA Office of Legal Affairs and its staff. The department handles legal responsibilities for the national association, supporting its governance and sport committees, 90 championships, and its national office staff assisting the membership and student-athletes. The Office of Legal Affairs also manages litigation involving the national association and houses the enterprise risk management function. Mr. Bearby added responsibilities as an NCAA vice president in September 2016.

Prior to becoming vice president of legal affairs and general counsel, Mr. Bearby spent much of his career at the NCAA focusing on media, intellectual property, and championship matters. He was lead NCAA inside counsel for all of the NCAA’s television, digital and other multi-media agreements for the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and other NCAA championships since 1999.

Mr. Bearby was a subcommittee chair with the 2012 Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee and a past chair of the Indianapolis Sports and Entertainment Bar Association. He currently serves on the NACUA Committee on Legal Education.

Mr. Bearby graduated in 1988 from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in government, and received his J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Bloomington) in 1992.

Matthew Mitten, Professor of Law and Executive Director, National Sports Law Institute

Mr. Mitten teaches Amateur Sports Law, Professional Sports Law, and a Sports Sponsorship Legal and Business Issues Workshop. He has authored Sports Law in the United States (Wolters Kluwer 2011, 2d. ed. 2014, 3d. ed. 2017) and co-authored a law school textbook, Sports Law and Regulation: Cases, Materials, and Problems (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer 2005, 2d. ed. 2009, 3d. ed. 2013, 4^th ed., 2017), and Sports Law: Governance and Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 2013, 2d. ed. 2016) an undergraduate and graduate textbook. A leading sports law scholar, he has published articles in several of the nation’s leading law reviews as well as in medical journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine. He is a member of the board of directors and the immediate past president of the Sports Lawyers Association and formerly chaired the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports, and previously served on the inaugural Board of Directors of the Forum for the Scholarly Study of Intercollegiate Athletics at the invitation of former NCAA president Myles Brand.

Julie D. Vannatta, Senior Associate Athletic Director – Legal and Senior Associate General Counsel for Athletics, The Ohio State University

Ms. Vannatta received her B.A. from Miami University (Ohio) in 1984 and her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1987. Ms. Vannatta was a member of the Ohio State Law Journal and received the Rebecca Topper Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to the Law Journal. Ms. Vannatta concentrates her practice on legal issues affecting Ohio State’s Department of Athletics. Prior to joining the University, she worked at Thompson, Hine and Flory focusing in the area of commercial litigation. Ms. Vannatta has been the Chair of the Young Lawyers’ Committee of the Columbus Bar Association, the Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Sport and Entertainment Law Committee, the Co-Chair of the Athletics’ section of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and is currently a member of the NCAA’s General Counsel Advisory Board. In 2009, she was named one of Columbus’ “Top Lawyers” by Columbus C.E.O. magazine. Ms. Vannatta has spoken on numerous topics including Title IX, Legal Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics, Legal Issues regarding Bowl Games, Coaches’ Contracts, Coaches’ Compensation Systems, Equipment/Apparel Contracts, Athletic Camps, Litigation with a Coach, the Tax Aspects of Corporate Sponsorships in Athletics and Licensing Athletics Multi-Media Marketing Rights. She has spoken regularly to local law school classes and at Ohio’s Annual Conference of Public College and University Attorneys, the Annual Conference of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the NCAA Convention and the Division 1-A Athletic Director’s Annual Meeting.