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Joseph Longo
USC Gould School of Law

Joseph Longo

Lecturer in Law

699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA

Last Updated: August 10, 2021




Joseph Longo is approaching his third decade as a certified Major League Baseball agent. As president of Paragon Sports International LLC, he has represented 27 first round draft picks, 21 MLB All Stars, 21 Gold Glover and Silver Slugger award recipients, he has won landmark arbitration cases and negotiated record-breaking free agent deals. Moreover, he has been a practicing attorney for 30 years, with a long history of successful and vigorous representation.

He graduated from Brown University, where he was a starter on the Brown University football team. Longo later received his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association, State Bar of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly Hills Bar Association and The Wealth Counsel. He has served as an expert panelist at the Loyola Sports Law Institute: Collective Bargaining and Individual Contract Negotiation; the USC Gould School of Law: Entertainment Law and Business forum; and the State Bar of California Certified: Negotiation for Lawyers – Lessons from Baseball Salary Arbitration Cases. He also teaches Baseball Arbitration courses as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.

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Politi Fact
May 23, 2023
Re: David B. Cruz

Professor David Cruz was recently interviewed about a controversial bill that was passed in Connecticut. "Paying even modest attention to the bill’s definitions should make it clear beyond doubt that it will not be the source of protections based upon the age of people to whom one is attracted or with whom one has sex," Cruz said.

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