The tense culmination of pro sports agent Peter Schaffer’s “volunteer” job as general counsel for Colorado’s youth hockey governing body has taken another contentious turn.
The Denver-based Schaffer, who has represented a number of NFL stars, is now suing the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association for breach of contract, contending the nonprofit organization owes him more than $38,000 for legal work he did on its behalf.
Schaffer is pursuing his claim even though both he and CAHA have long suggested that he was working as the association’s counsel pro bono. Some of this work, as Sportico previously reported, included aggressive actions by Schaffer on behalf of CAHA’s former executive committee, which were criticized as being retaliatory and called out by USA Hockey.
Subsequently, USA Hockey moved to implement new oversight measures for its Colorado affiliate, which included commissioning an outside forensic audit of CAHA’s books. On May 2, each of the members of CAHA’s executive committee, including longtime president Randy Kanai, were voted out by its members.
A week later, the new executive committee fired Schaffer, ultimately replacing him with another general counsel. Representing himself pro se, Schaffer filed suit last week in Colorado state court, accusing CAHA of breach of contract and unjust enrichment. In his lawsuit, he claimed that he and Kanai, in light of the association’s increasing demands on his time, had struck an agreement in 2021 that permitted him to...
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