Sports Attorneys Address Recent Decisions by Arbitrators in Pro Sports

Roger Kaplan was home reading the paper one morning 18 months ago, when he saw the story about the infamous brawl in Detroit involving the Indiana Pacers and several fans.   “I thought to myself, ‘I pity that poor arbitrator’,” Kaplan said at the Sports Lawyers Association’s annual meeting, where he was participating in a panel on arbitration.   Little did Kaplan know that he would be the arbitrator. While he had been fired as an arbitrator by the NBA several months earlier,