Media Coverage
Source: Daily Journal
Media Coverage
02.05.16
Ahead of Super Bowl 50 at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, the event’s Host Committee had myriad legal considerations and their corresponding insurance needs to consider. But the most pressing issue this year, according to Host Committee co-general counsel David Berger, has been safeguarding the event and its participants against the threat of terrorism.
Global Security Services partner Brian Finch tells the Daily Journal that organizers of large-scale events have had to concentrate more on implementing terrorism security measures since 9/11 and that a lawyer’s role is to help ensure the event’s planners have sufficiently considered the full impact of security risks.
“It’s shifted from the usual, preventing fan violence or intoxication, petty crime … Now we’re more concerned with actual major security events like a terrorist attack,” he said. “Where lawyers come in as subject matter experts isn’t to tell people where to put a metal detector or camera—it’s what the facility is doing, is that enough for them to say they have a reasonable security plan in place? You work with a lawyer beforehand to develop a plan to limit your exposure to risk.”