Some are criticizing the University of Michigan for paying $12 million to the Chicago law firm Jenner & Block to investigate the school’s athletic department, an investigation that produced no report.
Sarah Atwood of the Detroit News reports:
For $12 million, the university should have made a comprehensive report — whether it was given to the Board of Regents or not, said Aaron Hernandez, director of the National Sports Law Institute and an associate professor at Marquette University Law School. The university’s board or general counsel clearly asked for the information to be given through verbal briefings to protect the university from legal liability and make it impossible to be obtained through a public records request, he said…