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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 2805861, member: 549"] [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-men-ollie-lawyers-0805-story.html']What's Next For Kevin Ollie And UConn? We Asked Lawyers To Weigh In[/URL] >>UConn’s lawyers will need to prove whether it had just cause in firing Ollie in order to hang onto the remaining salary. Being a complicated legal matter, three experts in the field familiar with the situation weighed in for The Courant recently in an effort to shed light on the process and to analyze the case: Robert J. Romano, New Haven-based sports lawyer with 20 years’ experience representing sports and entertainment figures in contractual matters; Robert Rinker, retired, former executive director of the Connecticut State Employees Association; and Michael Rueda, a former UConn soccer player, now head of the U.S. sports practice at the New York-based law firm Withersworldwide. Rueda regularly advises athletes, coaches, and management on contractual issues.<< >>Rinker said, “where we can all hide behind the arbitrator, and whatever decision the arbitrator has, but it really speaks to, why are we not mediating a resolution to this?’ My advice to either side would be, get someone who is skilled at mediation and mediate a settlement of this, because each one of them is at risk in arbitration, and you want to be able to minimize your risk.”<< Based on personal experience on both side of the AAA arbitration table - Rinker and Rueda comments are on point... [/QUOTE]

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