Updated: Ducks Legal Department Nearly as Interesting as Football Team

Anybody who thinks lawyers are boring should tune into the University of Oregon's legal department.

The Ducks' attorneys got knocked for a loss for their role in the messy 2010 departure of athletic director Mike Bellotti. That saga ultimately played a role in the firing of U of O President Richard Larivere and its reverberations continue today, as U of O economics Prof. Bill Harbaugh details in his latest post at the blog U of O Matters

Here's a highlight: Harbaugh quotes from an email from the university's current general counsel, Randy Geller, who refers to recently-resigned Attorney General John Kroger's investigation of Geller's predecessor, Melinda Grier.

a hack job

Updated at 4:10 pm
an apology
Geller also issued a statement letting people know he had apologized and apologizing for misusing his department's website:

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