Michael L. Buckner Law Firm
1000 West McNab Road
Pompano Beach, Florida 33069
mbuckner@michaelbucknerlaw.com
954-941-1844
954-941-1846 FAX
RESOURCES for Athletics Administrators
HIGH SCHOOL/PREP SPORTS LAW: Practices & Services
The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm offers you over 25 years of collective intercollegiate athletics, interscholastic athletics, legal, consulting and investigation experience. We will leverage our knowledge to provide an effective and efficient solution to an interscholastic athletics-related issue.
Eligibility, Transfers and Waivers
The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm is available to assist high schools, prep schools, parents, parent groups and student-athletes with addressing eligibility-related issues. For example, we represent student-athletes who have been denied participation in a sport, contest or post-season competition by a school or the applicable interscholastic athletics association. We also represent schools who seek the equitable resolution of eligibility-related issues involving transfers, alleged improper recruiting or club-sports participation.
Enforcement and Athletics Investigations
The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm’s immense knowledge of athletics enforcement processes is available for your school if it is confronted with allegations of interscholastic athletics rules-violations. We specialize in solving your school’s athletics enforcement issues in a cost-effective and practical manner. Our expert approach in interscholastic athletics enforcement investigation and crisis management matters enables campus and athletics administrators to focus on their daily duties and responsibilities. Further, we represent clients before the interscholastic athletic enforcement/infractions committees. We also have experience in auditing and investigating high-school academic credentials and procedures.
Compliance and Ethics
The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm is available to assist you with developing proactive solutions to address your athletics department’s most pressing compliance and ethics needs. In particular, our experienced professionals can support athletics departments with complying with interscholastic athletics regulations by evaluating your organization’s operations and processes, as well as developing effective compliance and ethics systems. A prominent member of our team is Michael L. Buckner, Esquire, who is a national compliance and ethics trainer and the author of the book, The ABCs of Ethics: A Resource for Leaders, Managers, and Professionals. For example, we:
- Conduct comprehensive compliance audits and reviews.
- Design compliance and ethics programs, policies and procedures.
- Prepare compliance manuals.
- Perform due-diligence reviews.
- Assist organizations with developing codes of ethics.
- Lead process improvement projects.
- Conduct innovative education and training workshops on compliance and ethics issues and topics.
- Provide coaching services for compliance and ethics officers.
Professional Development and Rules-Education
The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm can work with you to develop and conduct education and training seminars and workshops that produce measurable and dramatic results for an athletics department. Our advisors will analyze your department to produce creative presentations and materials that are informative and useful. For example, our professionals have provided or developed seminars and workshops in a variety of areas and topics, including:
- Academic-fraud.
- Rules-compliance with interscholastic athletics regulations.
- Ethics.
- Internal investigation techniques.
- Leadership and teamwork.
- Process improvement.
- Teaching and coaching techniques and strategies for high-school professionals.
- Diversity education and training.