Sports, Art, & Entertainment Law Section
Annual Report
2021-2022
Section Membership
As of June 30, 2022 the Section has 205 members.
Financial Status
The Section had an account balance of $8979.29 as of April, 30, 2022.
CLEs & Events
The Section hosted 3 events in fiscal year 2021-22.
| Program Title | Date | Event Code | CLE Credits | Attendees | Virtual/ In-person/ Hybrid |
| Careers in Entertainment Law | 11/12/2022 | 425352 | 1.0 Standard | 23 | Virtual |
| A Marvel-ous Copyright War | 06/17/2022 | 465484 | 1.0 Standard | 21 | Virtual |
| Music Copyright Update and Annual Elections | 06/24/2022 | 465490 | 1.0 Standard | 27 | Virtual |
The Section Cross Promoted the Following Events
- Indian Arts and Crafts Act for Attorney’s CLE 01/27/2022
- The A Springboard for New Connections: Artist and Attorney Social Mixer 05/13/2022
Annual Meeting and Election Results
The Section’s Annual Meeting was held on June 24 and 27 people attended.
The following council members were elected to serve on the Section’s Governing Council from 7/1/2022 to 6/30/2023:
Nate Snyder, Chair
Tony Mendoza, Vice-Chair
Nick Torres, Secretary/Treasurer
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
What diversity, equity and inclusion goals did the Section include in the 2021-2022 work plan, how did you approach these goals, and what was the result?
What we had discussed at our planning meeting was that we want to involve law students more in the section, and we identified members of the section council to be in contact with each of the law schools, and in particular the leaders of the student orgs focused on entertainment law. We also wanted to provide opportunities for attorneys and artists to connect more organically, so we planned to have events outside of MSBA premises downtown.
We had discussed potential guest speakers, with efforts to invite presenters from throughout the state who are not normally active with the Section/MSBA, as well as inviting speakers from historically marginalized groups to share their experience in practicing in the entertainment industry.
The biggest impact we have observed: although no longer required, we kept CLE meetings on Zoom. In general, we have had much bigger attendance online than we have at in-person one-hour CLE (especially because historically we host them over the noon hour on Fridays at MSBA). With Zoom we have seen overall attendance nearly triple what we would typically expect at in-person CLE’s, including many more law students and attorneys who do not live in the metro area.
Other Section Accomplishments
We partnered with Springboard and Minnesota Music Coalition to have events for lawyers, law students, and artists to mingle
Submitted By:
Alex Mueller, Section Chair
Date July, 14, 2022