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Pittsburgh Pirates Vice President To Visit Smeal

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Pittsburgh Pirates vice president and general counsel Larry Silverman will visit Penn State's Smeal College of Business on Feb. 25 to preside over a moot baseball salary arbitration for All-Star second baseman Freddy Sanchez.

Pittsburgh Pirates Vice President To Visit Smeal

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 20, 2008) – Pittsburgh Pirates vice president and general counsel Larry Silverman will visit Penn State's Smeal College of Business on Feb. 25 to preside over a moot baseball salary arbitration for All-Star second baseman Freddy Sanchez.

The event will be held at 5 p.m. in room 110 of the Business Building and will feature students from Penn State's Dickinson School of Law acting as player and franchise attorneys and students from Smeal acting as research associates. After the moot arbitration, Silverman will take questions from the audience and provide his own comments.

"As chief legal officer for the Pirates, Silverman plays a major role in negotiating player contracts," said Stephen Ross, law professor and director of Penn State's Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research. "It is unusual to have a case being 'arbitrated' by a lawyer for one of the parties only weeks after the real case was decided."

The event is hosted by Smeal's Center for Sports Business Research and the law school's Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research.

U.S. News and World Report ranks the Dickinson School of Law's alternative dispute resolution program within the top 10 of all ABA-approved law schools and the Smeal College of Business within the top ten public business schools nationwide.

"Baseball arbitration," according to JAMS, a major arbitration provider, is an out-of-court method of dispute resolution in which parties submit offers to an arbitrator who selects and enacts the offer that he or she deems better.

About The Center For Sports Business Research
Center for Sports Business Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business focuses on the development of first-rate academic and applied empirical research in the sports industry, while helping to define educational opportunities for students looking to start careers in sports business. Drawing on Penn State's rich athletic tradition and working closely with two other University sports research centers in communications and law, the Center for Sports Business Research seeks to bridge the gap between existing academic research on sports business and relevant practitioner issues in the industry.

For more on the center, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/news/latest-news/jan08/csbr.html.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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