Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 05, 2009
Representing MLB

ShysterBall comments on the law firm used by Major League Baseball:

That aside, this reads like a sales brochure for Foley. Or for any other large firm, really. My experience working for such places tells me, however, that whenever lawyers talk to you about how they'll "think proactively" for you and serve as "facilitators" it really means that they'll continue billing you at a healthy clip when there aren't any deals on the table and there isn't much pending litigation. Personally speaking? I'd rather hire smart salaried people in-house to, in Braza's words, "think about the next thing I have coming down the road" and have my expensive, outside, hourly lawyers on stand-by for bigger problems.

It's always a buyer's market for legal services as long as you at least try to approach it as such. The days where you can just hire the biggest firm in town and delegate all of your thinking to them like Major League Baseball seems to have done with Foley is a thing of the past.

Update: He also catches Selig using a Yogi Berra quote that doesn't appear to have come from Yogi.

Update: It appears they found the quote!


Posted by David Pinto at 09:03 AM | Commissioner | TrackBack (0)
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My favorite line...conflicts of interest and unethical conduct abounds...

While Foley is joined at the hip with MLB, Braza's team has clients from individual baseball teams as well, including the Milwaukee Brewers.

Can a law firm represent both the best interests of the Brewers and MLB? Braza says yes. Should a franchise call for legal help, Braza says her team immediately contacts MLB and discusses the issue before moving ahead.

Posted by: Bob Tufts at January 5, 2009 12:06 PM

Better do another update David! Now they've found the quote where Yogi said it.....

Posted by: Zippercat at January 5, 2009 09:16 PM
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