Jason Harcourt Harrison, Esq., M.S.Ed.

Education

Jason H. Harrison is the CEO of WhiteCollarSports, LLC. He attended Cass Technical High School where he lettered in Baseball and, as a Senior, was named to the All-City team in Detroit, Michigan. He then attended the University of Michigan and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. His experience at the University of Michigan set him on the course of the law and he attended the University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law and obtained a Juris Doctor of Laws. Finally, he fell in love with the intersection of education and sport and obtained a Master of Science in Education with a Specialization in Sports Management from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Career Highlights

Mr. Harrison began his career in the field of law as a Legal Assistant to Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallett, Jr., of the Michigan Supreme Court, and as a Legal Assistant at the Detroit Medical Center. He also specialized in insurance defense litigation and municipal defense as an Associate at the law firms of Floyd Allen & Associates, Kopka, Pinkus & Dolin and Grier and Copeland, P.C. His legal experience also extends to early childhood education and corporate governance as he is the former Corporation Counsel at Hartford Head Start Agency, Inc., a nonprofit entity with a Six-Million Dollar ($6,000,000.00) Annual Budget and over One-Thousand (1000) students enrolled. Mr. Harrison then spent almost seven years at the Detroit Public Schools as Assistant General Counsel.  He advised two Emergency Managers, the School Board and numerous executive clients and was then promoted to be Counsel to the Inspector General and Police Chief.  He now is an In-House attorney at a major insurance company.

In education, Mr. Harrison taught as an Adjunct Professor in the MBA Program and Undergraduate Program at Davenport University in the areas of Employment Law and an Introduction to the Law seminar for Undergraduates. To be sure, his two years of study at Nova Southeastern University's Fischler Graduate School of Education and Human Services in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, provided him with an informed perspective on the international sports industry.

In sport and entertainment, Mr. Harrison, as an Executive Assistant to the Mayor of the City Detroit, created the Athletes for a Better Detroit Foundation and managed this project. The Foundation successfully recruited the following prominent professional athletes to become Board Members during its first year of existence: Steve Smith, Jerome Bettis, Derrick Coleman, Jalen Rose and Pepper Johnson. This project provided Mr. Harrison with an "in-camera" view of the professional advisors representing professional athletes and the methodology used by professional athletes to invest in businesses. He also was a member of the Casino negotiation team that successfully negotiated a release from the Most-Favored-Nations Clause on behalf of the City of Detroit from Greektown, MGM Grand, and Motor City Casinos in 2002.

Principal Bios

• Dempsey Scott Harrison III, B.A., M.A.
• Jason Harcourt Harrison, Esq., M.S.Ed.
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