We have officially finished the first week of the fall term here at the University of Oregon School of Law, and it has been a great week for SELF. We had an information table up at 1L Orientation and had an amazing 68 students sign up for our e-mail list! [Mind you, that's out of a class of only about 180 students.] A lot of the new students seemed very interested in sports and entertainment law; if not having already seriously thought about it as a career path, than at least in learning more about it because of prior interests in sports and entertainment, generally.
Of course, signing up for an e-mail list is great, but it doesn't guarantee much of anything beyond receiving e-mails. So, we weren't quite sure what to expect when we had our first informational meeting this last Thursday, but we were hopeful that some of our new signees would follow through and attend. Well, amazingly, about 70 students showed up! Not wanting to jump the gun, again, we figured that perhaps the attendance was inflated due to serving complimentary pizza. In fact, we
knew that it was inflated somewhat--the question was just, how much? So, after giving a rundown on the ins and outs of SELF and what students can get out of being involved, we gave them an opportunity to sign up for task groups focused on certain aspects of our agenda for the coming year. Roughly 45 students are offering to help us this year! This bodes well for our planned sports and entertainment law conference, as well as a number of other initiatives we have on the table.
Stay tuned as we hope to be back with more updates along the way about the conference, fundraisers, speakers and other events!
