A high school sports reporter for the Alabama Media Group, Mr. Ben Thomas, quoted Timothy Liam EPSTEIN in his May 25th, 2018 article regarding St. Paul’s lawsuit against the AHSAA.  Since then, U.S. District judge William H. Steele has issued an order denying St. Paul’s request for a federal injunction against the new AHSAA competitive balance ruling. Mr. Thomas followed up with Mr. EPSTEIN for his insight on the ruling in his latest article entitled, “St. Paul’s will play its 2018 football season as scheduled despite judge’s ruling.”

"Timothy Epstein, an attorney for Chicago-based Duggan Bertsch, LLC., called Judge Steele’s ruling “predictable” and said organizations like the AHSAA need to crack down on impermissible recruiting rather than focusing on penalizing success of private school teams."

"Now that there is an increased focus on player safety with concussion protocols in place for various professional leagues and the NCAA as well as some high school associations, you really can't justify putting some of these Goliaths up against smaller private schools," said Epstein, whose law expertise includes multipliers and similar measures in high school sports. "The fact that Alabama has a success formula on top of a multiplier - it's not legally justifiable. The success formula - in addition to the multiplier - simply does not pass constitutional muster as far as equal protection goes."

This years event took place February 6-8th at the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown, bringing thousands of music business executives together for three days of deal making, discussions, education, networking, fun, and of course music! 

Pollstar Live! for the fourth year, was preceded by a one-day Production Live! conference, a day of panels and networking, focusing on the issues and remedies of concert and event production. Among the group of featured panelists was our very own, Timothy Liam EPSTEIN! On Thursday afternoon of Pollstar, Tim served as one of the expert panelists on the, "When Things Go Off The Rails" discussion panel and led discussion for the Insurance/Risk Management Roundtable.