JJ Settlement

[grizpack]

Presumably, Paoli was already paid a good chunk of money for his work on the university proceeding, trial and other matters, which occurred while JJ was still on the football team. Paoli had to charge and be paid to avoid ncaa issues, i.e. free or subsidized legal fees for athletes. Now that JJ isn't an ncaa athlete, I assume Paoli was very fair with the Johnson family. Paoli doesn't need the money. He believed in JJ and JJ's entire "case". Paoli is a great guy. Can't imagine he'd take a normal contingency fee chunk out of this settlement. He knows the Johnson parents need and deserve their retirement savings back.

What??? You, as a "lawyer" think that he just gave up his billable hours on this lone case? You really think that because he likes the family, and is friends, that he will just wave his fee? REALLY? Sorry to not say on topic....

Back on Topic, good for JJ, he was railed by the UM system and never given his proper say.

Fuck off. Paoli is as good as it gets. And yes. He will do what is right for his client he if believes in what he is fighting for. Even if that means he writes down his fee . I have known the guy for 30+ years. And he doesn't hesitate to take on the tough case . And I have no doubt he wrote off most of what he was owed.

 

[grizbrokebacker1]

Presumably, Paoli was already paid a good chunk of money for his work on the university proceeding, trial and other matters, which occurred while JJ was still on the football team. Paoli had to charge and be paid to avoid ncaa issues, i.e. free or subsidized legal fees for athletes. Now that JJ isn't an ncaa athlete, I assume Paoli was very fair with the Johnson family. Paoli doesn't need the money. He believed in JJ and JJ's entire "case". Paoli is a great guy. Can't imagine he'd take a normal contingency fee chunk out of this settlement. He knows the Johnson parents need and deserve their retirement savings back.

NFW

 

[goatcreekgriz]

I have also known Paoli for over three decades, and he has known success. Scatalogical does not recognize there is a difference between billable hours and billed time -- neither of which apply here. Last I knew, Paoli does not track time, or rarely does (unless there is an opportunity to recover fees). I do not doubt that Paoli cut Jordy (or his family) a good deal because it makes business sense. Broke is all wet. This is about marketing as much as it is about altruism. These are not big dollars, but you cannot buy this kind of advertising.

 

[mtgrizrule]

Good for JJ and his family. I hope the next step is going after Krackwhore.

 

[maroonandsilver]

And where is the accuser in all this? Is Paoli going after her? Without her accusation, none of this shit-storm ever happens.

 

[AZGrizFan]

Good for JJ and his family. I hope the next step is going after Krackwhore.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[TxGriz]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Obama's justice department turns on one the most liberal institutions out there in 'liberal/progressive' land.

How deliciously ironic. Karma can be a bitch.

 

[yogi]

meanwhile, the author of all this sxxxstorm, Royce,gets a raise; your friend, yogi

 

[bgbigdog]

$245k is a nice way to start off your post college life. Could go a long way.

Maybe not worth it, i mean wouldn't recommend creating that path for your self.

Must have forgotten there are lawyers... Wouldn't assume JJ is "making out" here @ all.

 

[UMGriz75]

It is interesting to me that, when the federal Department of Education began to pressure schools to adopt the protocols like those that got their start at UM, some law schools protested. After Harvard adopted new protocols, for example, a couple dozen Harvard Law School professors loudly protested, saying, among other things that the new procedures "lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html

I don't recall hearing a peep out of UM's law professors.

It symbolizes the decline of the UM Law School into what it has become, a sinecture for far-Left people with law degrees, little actual experience and no academic rigor. Symptomatically, the Montana Supreme Court has established a committee to look into the problem of why so many UM grads are now failing the bar exam. The problem here is that, to have taken a stand on Engstrom's "agreement," would have looked in their eyes to have been defending the football team, in part because that's how they think, and in part, because "constitutional rights" have yielded over there to notions of the law being used to implement social justice agendas. Demonizing male athletes is part of that agenda.

 

[UMGriz75]

meanwhile, the author of all this sxxxstorm, Royce,gets a raise; your friend, yogi

It can probably be said that thanks to Royce Engstrom's handling of the entire affair, UM paid out close to $1 million in settlements, and lost $25 million in revenue by losing 2,000 students, and is known far and wide at "the University that crumbled and sacrificed student rights." Universities across the land are paying the price for adopting the "UM Model," perhaps the single biggest and most expensive legal error in higher education history, not to mention one of the most shameful, where students, on the basis of their sex, lost their constitutional rights.

 

[RABIDAWG]

Makes me wonder if there could be a $$ case against the "seductress", who lured him into this mess? All that pain and suffering from boinking a female student must be worth something, no? Life is full of such poor choices.

 

[UMGriz75]

Makes me wonder if there could be a $$ case against the "seductress", who lured him into this mess? All that pain and suffering from boinking a female student must be worth something, no? Life is full of such poor choices.

When Brian Banks' "seductress" was asked, upon his release from 5 years of prison having been exonerated and her making a confession that she had made a false accusation, her counter-question was to ask whether she had to give back the $1.2 million settlement.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/blindsided-the-exoneration-of-brian-banks/

 

[horribilisfan8184]

It is interesting to me that, when the federal Department of Education began to pressure schools to adopt the protocols like those that got their start at UM, some law schools protested. After Harvard adopted new protocols, for example, a couple dozen Harvard Law School professors loudly protested, saying, among other things that the new procedures "lack the most basic elements of fairness and due process.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html

I don't recall hearing a peep out of UM's law professors.

It symbolizes the decline of the UM Law School into what it has become, a sinecture for far-Left people with law degrees, little actual experience and no academic rigor. Symptomatically, the Montana Supreme Court has established a committee to look into the problem of why so many UM grads are now failing the bar exam. The problem here is that, to have taken a stand on Engstrom's "agreement," would have looked in their eyes to have been defending the football team, in part because that's how they think, and in part, because "constitutional rights" have yielded over there to notions of the law being used to implement social justice agendas. Demonizing male athletes is part of that agenda.

You are so right. But you forgot the part about selling out the "naming rights" to the Law School for $10M, paid over time. I can see naming a new business school after a major donor that builds a new building but law is supposed to be a "learned" profession. Blewett's a great guy but he was not a founder of the school or one with any teaching history or status as longtime Dean, which would tie him to the school more than as simply a generous cash cow. What happens when Cliff or John and Chris Edwards wants to donate $25M? Can you say hyphenate?

 

[UMGriz75]

You are so right. But you forgot the part about selling out the "naming rights" to the Law School for $10M, paid over time. I can see naming a new business school after a major donor that builds a new building but law is supposed to be a "learned" profession. Blewett's a great guy but he was not a founder of the school or one with any teaching history or status as longtime Dean, which would tie him to the school more than as simply a generous cash cow. What happens when Cliff or John and Chris Edwards wants to donate $25M? Can you say hyphenate?

Well, the late John Hoyt got his name all over the place at the athletic facilities, his surviving partner could hardly seek less. It made it seem like an ego contest. It was, at best, untoward. Everyone involved is somewhat embarrassed over it, it is so overweeningly narcissistic. It would have been one thing to name it after his Dad or Grandad, or some other luminary, Judge Browning or something of the sort. But, no. It's frankly embarrassing to the Law School.

 

[zengriz]

...two more cleats need to drop...
...never be able to close this deal...
...until the exoneration of pflu/oday...

... :argue: ...

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

The BOR should make Royce take a mandadtory sexual assault course online before he can cash any of his new pay day raise.....just like he made all students do before registering for classes.

 

[AZGrizFan]

You are so right. But you forgot the part about selling out the "naming rights" to the Law School for $10M, paid over time. I can see naming a new business school after a major donor that builds a new building but law is supposed to be a "learned" profession. Blewett's a great guy but he was not a founder of the school or one with any teaching history or status as longtime Dean, which would tie him to the school more than as simply a generous cash cow. What happens when Cliff or John and Chris Edwards wants to donate $25M? Can you say hyphenate?

Well, the late John Hoyt got his name all over the place at the athletic facilities, his surviving partner could hardly seek less. It made it seem like an ego contest. It was, at best, untoward. Everyone involved is somewhat embarrassed over it, it is so overweeningly narcissistic. It would have been one thing to name it after his Dad or Grandad, or some other luminary, Judge Browning or something of the sort. But, no. It's frankly embarrassing to the Law School.

I had to look that one up. You're a regular thesaurus.

 

[wbtfg]

So is Royce going to take this settlement money out of the athletics budget?

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

So is Royce going to take this settlement money out of the athletics budget?

Heard he was going to make it up by eliminating Gwens position in the J school.