This year’s Olympic Games will begin on July 26 in London. Behind the scenes will be Maidie Oliveau, counsel at Arent Fox in Los Angeles, who is the U.S. representative on the ad hoc division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the Olympic Games. In that role, Oliveau joins 11 additional arbitrators who will handle legal disputes in the days leading up to and during the Games.
Oliveau, who served on the same panel during four previous Olympic events, spoke to The National Law Journal about how the arbitration process works and the types of disputes that crop up.
