Scott L. Walker

Scott L. Walker, Matthew Savare | Lowenstein Sandler PC

Fantasy sports products, spurred by the Internet and mobile devices, have enjoyed exponential growth in the last decade. Today, more than 27 million people participate in fantasy sports leagues in the United States and annual revenue for the industry approximates $1 billion.1Such explosive growth...

John R. Middleton, Jr., Scott L. Walker, Matthew Savare | Lowenstein Sandler PC

Cashing In: Economic Benefits Of New Sports Facilities In Part I of this article, we briefly examined two of the most prominent issues related to the successful completion of new sports facilities projects: public financing of new stadia; and the use of eminent domain to acquire all or part...

Matthew Savare, John R. Middleton, Jr., Scott L. Walker | Lowenstein Sandler PC

The New Economics of Sports And The Boom Of New Sports Facilities When the National Hockey League's ("NHL's") New Jersey Devils took the ice in their state-of-the-art $365 million Prudential Center in downtown Newark, New Jersey in October 2007, they became the sixty-fifth and most recent...