The team of 3Ls Jackson Dankert and Brett VanBuren have won the 2024 New England Hockey Arbitration Competition (NEHAC) hosted by Western New England School of Law.
NEHAC is a moot court competition centered on hockey arbitration offered to law students from schools across the U.S. and Canada held every summer virtually. In the first stage, Dankert and VanBuren represented two players seeking arbitration as well as their corresponding hockey teams during three rounds of competition. After the first stage, the Syracuse Law team scored highest amongst all competing teams, earning a spot in the finals where they prevailed in one final round. VanBuren was selected as M.V.P. of the competition.
Before the competition, Dankert and VanBuren submitted two 10-page briefs in support of both the player side and the club in one of the arbitration scenarios. They then prepared scripts and slides to present at the competition. Daniel Greene L’16, an associate at Newman & Lickstein, served as their coach. Greene competed at the Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada and took second place in 2015.
Dankert is currently a Mergers and Acquisitions summer intern at KPMG and is Vice President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society as well as being a member of the Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society Alternative Dispute Resolution Division, and Syracuse Law Review.
VanBuren is a US Army JAG Corps summer intern assigned to Southern European Task Force – Africa where he competed in the NEHAC from Vicenza, Italy, President of the Corporate Law Society, a member of the Journal of International Law and Commerce, and a member of the Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society Alternative Dispute Resolution Division. He was recently appointed the Law Student Representative to the Syracuse University Board of Trustees.
