How often do Olympic medal winners credit their lawyers along with their coaches? "We want to thank our legal team," were the first public words by ice dancer Ben Agosto, who with partner Tanith Belbin won the silver medal during the Olympics in Turin, Italy. Belbin, a native of Canada, had a citizenship problem, and without their legal team -- led by Barney Skladany of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld -- Agosto and Belbin would have been forced to sit out their second Olympic competition in four years.
February 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Olympic medal winners routinely thank their coaches, their trainers and their families, but how often do they thank their lawyers?
“We want to thank our legal team,” were the first public words by ice dancer Ben Agosto, who with partner Tanith Belbin had just won the silver medal, the first U.S. medal in ice dancing in 30 years during the Olympics in Turin, Italy, on Feb. 20.
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