Making the Assist in Athletic Conference Realignments A university or athletic conference considering conference realignment faces a multitude of legal issues involving, among other things, conference constitutions and bylaws, media contracts and the seemingly inevitable threat of litigation. Holland & Knight's Education Team helps clients in this critical juncture of sports and law. Not long ago, it was highly unusual for a college or university to move from one athletic conference to another. Not so anymore. In the past few years alone, dozens of universities have changed conference affiliations. Holland & Knight attorneys provided wide-ranging counsel to several of those institutions. In one instance, Holland & Knight counseled a university in negotiations that enabled it to move from a

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