Alex Formenton sues agent for $20 million

[Chips]

I know people don't like the guy, but that shouldn't cloud whether he has a case here.

He's innocent until proven guilty with the rape case. He has every right to sue the agent because of how they handled his career after the rape allegations. They don't have the right to misrepresent him just because he might've raped someone. Bad guys are represented too, and we don't even know for sure he's a bad guy. Time will tell about that.

His claims don't sound frivolous. Doubt he gets all the money he's suing for, but depending on the details he may have a case. I doubt it goes to trial. They'll probably just settle for some small amount.

I can’t say I know of the chances, but I will say I think it’s pretty typical for lawsuits to start at a higher number than they want similar to negotiations. They might settle

Far as people scoffing at the number, I don’t want him to get it but I don’t think it’s too crazy.

 

[SupremeTeam16]

They’d only settle if it got passed summary judgment (Canadian equivalent)

Well no duh. Of course Newport and Arnott are going to try and get it squashed before a trial where potentially damaging information could be put on the record. As I mentioned earlier, in the early days Newport was trying to protect Formenton and help make this go away, at some point it became clear this wasn’t going away and he was going to be a radioactive so they would obviously want to distance themselves. It’s not a stretch that a court would rule there’s enough to warrant a trial to determine whether they breached in their duties to a client at some point. If Newport does get a summary judgement it’s early in the legal process and wouldn’t be a long and expensive legal proceeding. It’s a low risk high reward situation for him, there’s a good chance Newport could pay him something just to make it go away.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

And AF is acting like the two things are not linked. The thing is "when did he tell his agent?"

Have you ever read a lawsuit? Of course you try to minimize the weaknesses within your argument.

The point is that trying to argue he wasn't an NHL caliber player is pretty stupid. He obviously was. There are valid reasons an NHL team might not want him and I think that will mitigate his claims for 20.5M and might even lose him the case against Newport if it went all the way, but his agent is supposed to advocate on his behalf to those teams that have questions, and he's suggesting they didn't do so.

The people trying to claim "he wasn't good enough for the NHL" or "he wouldn't have earned an NHL salary" are making pretty stupid arguments that I don't even think the agent would try to claim in response.