Re: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] A Warning, a Crusade, and a Public Reckoning at the U. of Florida

We don't know what his fee arrangement is with any client. Perhaps a player seeing his multimillion dollar NFL career tank agrees to a deferred fee arrangement with the attorney who is going to save him. Since he couldn't take a gift that isn't offered to all students without it being an NCAA violation (i.e. pro bono representation), I imagine that all athletes he represents 'owe' him his fee and he just doesn't pursue its collection for awhile. I am just speculating, of course, but I don't see that free legal services are any different than free shoes for athletes, so there must be some fee generated. 

As to the size of the fee, if UF agreed that they owed a fee, but thought the amount was inflated, they could always let a judge determine the amount. I imagine, though, that UF would go to the mat over owing anyone's fee. They are required by federal law to pursue these cases, and no one is required to hire an attorney to move through the process. If they accepted owing the students' fees in one case, that's a genie they could never put back in the bottle. 

Rob

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On Jul 23, 2017, at 8:33 AM, John Vega <zebulon@gate.net> wrote:

On Jul 22, 2017, at 6:36 PM, ken@kirkley.net wrote:

I agree that the issues he's uncovered needed to be dealt with. His only altruistic motive is that he wants his inflated $400k legal fee paid.

This is what confuses me.

First, if the legal fee is inflated; isn it extortion to demand that an artificial fee be paid "or else?" Simply charging an inflated fee seems unethical.

Second, how could anyone realistically think that their opponent would pay their substantial legal fees, unless UF had done so before?

Third, if you take on Callaway pro bono (maybe he comes from crazy money, most students don't), why would you run up a $400K fee that you know he couldn't pay? 

-Zeb

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