Leigh Steinberg wil be our featured speaker.

Leigh William Steinberg, the real life inspiration of the sports agent from the film “Jerry Maguire,” is the pre-eminent sports agent and sports attorney with over four decades of handling hundreds of elite professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, golf, boxing, volleyball, and Olympic sports.  He represented the Number 1 pick in the NFL draft a record eight times, in addition to representing over 60 other first round draft picks just in the NFL.  Leigh's client roster included: Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Kordell Stewart, Jeff George, Ben Roethlisberger, Myron Rolle, Matt Leinart, Mark Brunell, Ricky Williams, Howie Long, Eric Karros, Dusty Baker, Lennox Lewis, Oscar de la Hoya, and John Starks to name a few.  For many years Mr. Steinberg and Jeff Moorad were in a sports agency partnership (Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn, or "SMD").  The firm was sold Oct., 1999 to Assante Sports Management Group; Leigh later reacquired some pieces of the agency.  Steinberg Sports and Entertainment is now working to become the premier full service boutique agency spanning the vast market of athlete representation in addition to working to promote several platforms, such as sustainability, league and team development, concussion research, youth sports and family development, and philanthropy.

Steinberg is considered the pioneer converging sports and entertainment, and he is frequently sought out to act as a consultant on a variety of entertainment projects, most notably “For Love of the Game,” “Any Given Sunday,'' as well as the TV series “Arliss.”  Leigh is also featured on national television programs, such as “60 Minutes,” “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show,” "Good Morning America," "CNN," "CNN World," and many more, as well as a host of magazines have covered him including: Business Week, Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, People, Success, Forbes, Playboy, GQ, FHM, LA Times Sunday Magazine, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, amongst others. 

Steinberg is also known for his desire for athletes to make a positive contribution to society and as a result, Steinberg's clients donated over $600 million to hundreds of charities and scholarships nationwide.  An accomplished speaker, Steinberg travels the world addressing topics he is passionate about ranging from sports and entertainment, concussion prevention, the environment, to political and economic issues.  Steinberg was one of the first to shed light on the concussive issue as a “ticking time bomb,” and a “health epidemic.”  Leigh's is often a keynote speaker at conferences on the concussion subject, including the “New Developments in Sports-Related Concussions” conference hosted by the worldwide leader in traumatic brain injury research, the University of Pittsburgh Medical College Sport Medicine Department.  Additionally, one of Leigh's advocacy platforms is his famous Super Bowl Party, which brings together some of the most prestigious businessmen, and leaders in sports and entertainment to benefit designated charities.

Mr. Steinberg was admitted to the California State Bar in 1974 after earning his Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley's law school, in 1973. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science also from UC Berkeley in 1970.  Steinberg wrote a best-selling book in 1998, "Winning with Integrity," providing readers insight on how to improve their life through non-confrontational negotiating.

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