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Ole Miss Legal Department
From reading the bios of the Legal Staff at Ole Miss, the group does not seem strong. Ole Miss needs someone who is mean, ruthless, and will pursue all legal battles to a victory.
Lee Tyner has resigned as General Counsel at Ole Miss. This is good riddance to someone who proved they have no backbone to fight and will simply take the easy way out whenever possible. Thank goodness Lee Tyner is gone, but he will probably be rewarded with some teaching job at Ole Miss while practicing law in Oxford fleecing the students who get into legal troubles.
Donna Gurley, the Associate General Counsel, simply appears to be someone who got her law degree at Ole Miss, practiced law at some firm in Oxford, got a job at Ole Miss, and is pursuing her doctorate in the Higher Education Department. This appears that her interests are in working at Ole Miss while they pay for her to get a doctorate degree so she can teach. Maybe she is just another GOB hire by someone who knew someone in Oxford, so they hired her when she found out the job was open.
Rob Jolly seems well qualified with experience litigating from large law firms. He is a fairly young lawyer, but seems to have had several jobs in his short career. Of the three lawyers in the Ole Miss legal department, he seems like the one with the most potential.
Actually, they should totally clean house in the legal department at Ole Miss due to the inept handling of issues related to the NCAA investigation and the Mutt case. Most likely there are other things that could be found that were done inadequately.
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Re: Ole Miss Legal Department
Most in-house counsel are not "mean and ruthless." In those positions, you want people skilled in administrative law, rules, regulations, etc. When businesses or universities are faced with litigation (including NCAA investigations), they usually hire outside counsel experienced in dealing with such. The in-house counsel often assist the outside counsel but do not actually litigate, etc. In the Ole Miss case, it appears Lee Tyner (who just resigned) might have had a larger role than is usually the case. If so, that might have been unwise. However, I don't know all the inside workings of how the University's defense was handled by a mixture of in-house counsel and outside counsel.
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Re: Ole Miss Legal Department
They need to get outside Oxford and retain a firm that is well known in the courtroom. There are a number of those in Tupelo, Meridian, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula. Ole Miss has always overlooked South Mississippi except when it comes time to ask for pledges. Bullet Bob was from the Coast, but you would have never known it unless someone else told you.
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Re: Ole Miss Legal Department
pomouth wrote:
They need to get outside Oxford and retain a firm that is well known in the courtroom. There are a number of those in Tupelo, Meridian, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula. Ole Miss has always overlooked South Mississippi except when it comes time to ask for pledges. Bullet Bob was from the Coast, but you would have never known it unless someone else told you.
If they choose someone from outside of Oxford or North Mississippi, they expose themselves to a higher risk of getting someone not in the GOB Network. This could result in having someone who will speak their minds and do their actions without being manipulated on puppet strings.
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