In this article, first published with and written for LawInSport, Sean Cottrell (@SeanLawInSport) offers some advice for aspiring sports lawyers

I spend a fair amount of time speaking with enthusiastic law students and young professionals that want to become sports lawyers. There are some basic, but effective, steps that aspiring sports lawyers can take that will get their career off to a flying start. However, these steps can be easily overlooked. Therefore I thought I would take the opportunity to share ten tips on how to start a career as a sports lawyer.