Don Gibson has more than 30 years of experience as an attorney, business executive and entrepreneur in the sports and entertainment industries. He has represented entertainers, athletes and companies in business and in legal matters, and has spent more than 20 years in senior leadership positions with major sports organizations.
Professor Gibson worked eight years with Major League Baseball. He first served as an attorney in the Commissioner’s Office, then as vice president and General Counsel, and as senior VP/acting president, of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc., the division responsible for Major League Baseball’s licensing, corporate sponsorship, special events and marketing. Following his tenure with Major League Baseball, he served as the chief executive of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was responsible for all day-to-day administration of the institution, including management of the $103 Million new Hall of Fame Riverfront development project.
After four and a half years with the Basketball Hall of Fame, he left to pursue entrepreneurial interests in Los Angeles. He formed his own sports management agency, XL Sports, and then became a principal and co-founder of Section 1, a sports and entertainment consumer products company. He subsequently returned to private law practice, joining the law firm Dreier Stein Kahan LLP based in Santa Monica, California as a partner, heading up the firm’s new sports law practice. He also simultaneously launched and became Chief Operating Officer of Dreier Sports Opportunities, which provided sports marketing and business development services to athletes and businesses.
In 2009, Professor Gibson launched Kavi Sports & Entertainment, a consulting firm that provides a broad range of services to clients in the sports and entertainment industries, including strategic planning, licensing, branding and business development. In 2014, he co-founded and launched Brandtheon, which provides brand development and brand management services to sports and entertainment personalities. Since 2015, he has been a Professor of Practice with the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, teaching courses in sports law and business.
At UCLA, he was a member and Chief Comments Editor of the Law Review. Following law school, he was Law Clerk to United States District Court Judge David W. Williams in the Central District of California, and a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School where he taught Legal Research and Writing to First-Year students.
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law: MSLB |
SLB 523 | MLB Impact on Law/Society-MSLB |
SLB 524 | Law of Sports Branding-MSLB |
LAW 672 | MLB's Impact on Law/Society |
LAW 677 | Law of Sports Branding |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SLB 523 | MLB Impact on Law/Society-MSLB |
LAW 676 | Amateur Sports Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law: MSLB |
SLB 523 | MLB Impact on Law/Society-MSLB |
SLB 524 | Law of Sports Branding-MSLB |
LAW 672 | MLB's Impact on Law/Society |
LAW 677 | Law of Sports Branding |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 523 | MLB Impact on Law/Society-MSLB |
SLB 592 | Research |
LAW 676 | Amateur Sports Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 592 | Research |
SLB 593 | Applied Project |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law: MSLB |
SLB 523 | History of MLB Since WWII:MSLB |
SLB 524 | Pers&Corp Sports Branding:MSLB |
LAW 672 | History of MLB Since WW II |
LAW 677 | Sports Branding:Legal&Business |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SLB 523 | History of MLB Since WWII:MSLB |
LAW 676 | Amateur Sports Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law: MSLB |
SLB 523 | History of MLB Since WWII:MSLB |
SLB 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 672 | History of MLB Since WW II |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law: MSLB |
SLB 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law |
SLB 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SLB 510 | Amateur Sports Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |