Alan Rifkin

• Sports Law, Gaming, Facilities and Media Rights

• Business and Commercial Transactions

• Complex Civil and Commercial Litigation

• Administrative Law and Regulatory Compliance

• Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC (1989 – Present) – Managing Partner

• Patton Boggs (1988 – 1989) – Partner

• Counsel and Chief Legislative Officer to Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer (1986-1988)

• Director, Governor Schaefer’s Transition Team for Legal and Legislative Affairs (1986)

• Counsel and Chief Legislative Assistant to Maryland Senate President, Melvin A. “Mickey” Steinberg (1985-1986)

American Bar Association

Maryland State Bar Association

• “Sports and the Law”, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Adjunct professor (2018-2022)

• “Discussion of NCAA v. Alston” Faculty Webinar Series, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, panel moderator (2021)

• “Cracks in the Armor – Recent Legal Challenges to Professional and Collegiate Sports Governance Associations” at the SCG Legal annual international law conference, moderator and panel presenter (2016)

• “Convergence of Law and Arbitration” before the Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) annual convention, panel presenter (2015)

• “Sports Law Symposium” for the Maryland Carey Law Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Association at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, guest lecturer (2016)

• “Negotiating strategy and commercial transactions,” University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, guest lecturer (2014)

• Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL), sports law, guest lecturer (2007)

• State Government and Constitutional Law, Loyola University, former adjunct professor (1984/85)