Labor & Employment Law

Dobin & Jenks Helps Royal Palm Beach High School Wildcats Softball

By Dobin & Jenks

You may ask, what does a securities and employment firm like Dobin & Jenks, located in Jupiter, Florida, have to do with a girls' softball team in Royal Palm Beach, some 25 or 30 miles away? It's a long story, for which I will only brag about the highlights.

One of the softball boosters is the neighbor of one of our lawyers. I met this booster at a social function and he mentioned that the boys' baseball field has lights but the girls' team doesn't. He went on to explain how they have fofeited games on account of darkness. Now, I may not be sharpest knife in the drawer, but that didn't seem right, fair or legal.

We did some research, and Brian Buckstein of our office sent a letter to the school's principal. After a couple more letters, the School Board advised us that the boys were not permitted to use their lights until the girls' field was similarly equipped. We didn't like disadvantaging the boys in the process, but the two teams needed to be treated equally.

Over the summer and into the fall, the school board put up lights. The parents renovated other sections of the field and turned it into their "Field of Dreams." Brian, his family and I went to the first night game held at the field. It was gratifying to see tangible results of our successful work which, so often, is only represented in a check and a settlement agreement. The team was clearly enjoying its newly-refurbished home and we were glad to be a part of it.

By the way, the team won their first nighttime game.

That's the view from The Law Planet, Jupiter, Florida.

Full post as published by The Law Planet Blog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).