Former Sports Law Clinic aide named Anti-Doping director
Friday, February 22, 2008

Stephen A. Starks, a 2006 graduate of the Valparaiso University School of Law, has been named director of legal affairs for the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).

Starks worked in Valparaiso’s Sports Law Clinic as a law student and served with the clinic team that traveled to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.

Starks has worked on numerous Sports Law Clinic cases, including USADA vs. George Hartman in 2006, for which he wrote the brief and argued the case for Hartman. During this case, Starks appeared before the American Arbitration Association, arguing against USADA’s general counsel (now CEO) Travis Tygart and Bill Bock, current USADA general counsel.

Starks will join USADA on March 10 and will, among other things, prosecute doping cases against Olympic athletes who have tested positive for banned substances. Upon graduation from Valparaiso, he completed a one-year judicial clerkship for the Theodore R. Boehm of the Indiana Supreme Court before joining the law firm Bose McKinney & Evans, where he is an associate in the firm’s litigation and appellate practice groups.

The Valparaiso Sports Law Clinic is directed by Michael Straubel, an associate professor of law and a sports law expert. Straubel is assisted by 10 third-year law students, all of whom are certified by the Indiana Supreme Court to represent clients under Straubel’s supervision.

 

For more information:
Tom Shaer
Media Relations Consultant, Valparaiso University School of Law
224-305-2551
shaermedia@aol.com
www.sportslawclinic.org and www.valpo.edu/law