Eight Strategies to Create Effective High School Athletics Compliance Programs

Course: “Eight Strategies to Create Effective High School Athletics Compliance Programs.”

Date and Time of Course: March 25, 2014, 4:00 pm ET (1:00 pm PT).

Event and Location of Course: Webinar.

Cost: Complimentary.

Time Allowance for Course: 1 hour and five minutes (65 minutes).

Summary Description: This webinar will provide principals, head masters, athletic directors, compliance officers, district personnel and school legal counsel with strategies and best practices to develop or enhance an effective school program to maintain compliance with high school athletic association rules.

Detailed Description: Compliance programs prevent and detect violations and misconduct and protect the interests of student-athletes, parents and schools. An effective compliance program is an absolute necessity to protect a school from various risks, including violations of state high-school athletic association rules and student-athlete eligibility issues. This webinar will cover a variety of elements that are critical for successful design and implementation of a high-school athletics compliance program.

Course Objectives and Benefits: The webinar will provide ten strategies and best practices that school and district administrators can use to develop effective athletics compliance programs. Specifically, using a case study and handouts, webinar participants will cover:

• The definition of an effective compliance and ethics program
• State high-school athletic association rules concerning compliance programs
  
• Elements of an effective athletics compliance program
• The importance of compliance expectations
• Best practices and strategies for success in building a world-class athletics compliance program

Course Resources and Materials:

I.   PowerPoint presentation.

II.  Webinar handout.

Course Outline of Activities:

I. Introduction and workshop overview

II. Strategy One: Communication of compliance expectations

III. Strategy Two: Compliance manuals and access to rules

IV. Strategy Three: Forms and documentation

V. Strategy Four: Communication procedures

VI. Strategy Five: Compliance education and training programs

VII. Strategy Six: Internal monitoring system

VIII. Strategy Seven: External compliance audits

IX. Strategy Eight: Self-detecting, self-reporting and self-investigating

X. Questions and Closing

Presenter and Biography: Michael L. Buckner is the shareholder of Buckner, a boutique sports law firm. Mr. Buckner, a licensed attorney, advises organizations on compliance, investigation, ethics, training, and management enhancement issues. Mr. Buckner represents academic institutions before all NCAA committees, including colleges and universities in the enforcement process and secondary schools in the high school review process. Mr. Buckner, as an independent consultant for the NCAA (2006-07), conducted on-site investigative audits of non-traditional and preparatory schools in the United States and Puerto Rico. Mr. Buckner has appeared on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and ESPN’s College Football Live, as well as been quoted in numerous newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News and Lexington Herald-Leader), as a commentator on NCAA enforcement cases. Mr. Buckner is the author of two books, Athletics Investigation Handbook: A Guide for Institutions and Involved Parties During the NCAA Enforcement Process and The ABCs of Ethics: A Resource for Leaders, Managers, and Professionals. Mr. Buckner is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and all state courts in Florida. Mr. Buckner earned his bachelor’s degree in international relations and social sciences and communication in 1993 from the University of Southern California. He was awarded a law degree in 1996 from Florida State University, where he was a member of the Moot Court team.

Presenter’s Firm: The presenter is employed by Buckner, which is a boutique sports law firm. Buckner works with higher education, high school, Olympic, amateur, professional and corporate clients on sports-related legal, compliance, regulatory and administrative issues showcases our experience in diverse practice areas: internal investigations; NCAA compliance and investigations; state high school association compliance and investigations; risk management; sports drug testing; sports dispute resolution and arbitration; and corporate governance. Buckner is headquartered in the Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, area. The firm’s street and mailing address is 7771 West Oakland Park Boulevard, Suite 162, Sunrise, Florida 33351-6749. Buckner’s telephone number is 954-941-1844 and facsimile number is 954-941-1846. The law firm’s contact e-mail address is info@bucknersportslaw.com. The law firm website is located at www.bucknersportslaw.com.

Registration Policy: By registering for a Buckner webinar, you are obligated to pay the registration fee and agree to the cancellation and refund policy. Your registration permits you to access the audio portion of the webinar through one telephone line and the visual portion of the event via an online portal. You are permitted to invite guests from your organization to listen and participate in the event. You also can transfer your registration to another person in your organization.

Cancellation Policy: If a webinar is cancelled at the discretion of Buckner, all webinar registration fees will be refunded. Unfortunately, the law firm cannot provide a refund for cancellation by a registrant. Access to the archived version of a webinar, if recorded, is included in the fee for the live broadcast. We cannot always guarantee that a recording can be created.
 

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