Title IX: How Female Athletes at New York Colleges Face Major Inequities in Sports

Rimon Partner Buz Barclay of Albany, New York, and co-counsel Rimon Global Alliance member Carlos Gonzalez of Miami, Florida, represent female student athletes of the State University of New York at Albany in a Federal class action lawsuit under Title IX, claiming that the university is systematically denying women substantially fewer opportunities to participate in varsity intercollegiate sports, in comparison with the number of opportunities the school makes available to male students.  Buz is quoted in an article about how the athletics departments of many of the colleges and universities in New York may be violating this nearly fifty-year-old law, denying women thousands of potentially life-changing opportunities annually.

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Buz Barclay focuses on business transactions primarily in the electric power industry and in infrastructure projects and provides business counsel to a broad array of emerging companies and ventures, primarily in the energy space.  His multi-disciplinary practice includes start-up business counseling and financing, joint ventures, mergers and corporate and asset acquisitions, project development, project restructuring, project finance, private equity and venture capital investing.  He has guided energy companies through initial public offerings in the US and guided US energy companies through IPOs in Canada. Mr. Barclay has experience with fossil fuel technologies, energy efficiency, and metering products and services; compressed air, pumped hydro and other energy storage technologies and projects; wind, solar, biomass and other renewable resources; biofuels; coal-to-liquids; fuel cells; waste-to-energy; district heating and cooling systems; combined (clean) heat and power and distributed generation, and independent transmission projects. Read more.