Former LSU women’s basketball coach Pokey Chatman is “prepared to go forward with the necessary litigation” to obtain compensation from her contract and damages resulting from “the manner in which she was treated,” according to a letter released Tuesday afternoon by Chatman’s lawyer Mary Olive Pierson.
Pierson sent the five-page letter on April 13 to Ray Lamonica, general counsel for the LSU Systems. In the letter, Pierson says Assistant Athletic Director Miriam Segar informed Chatman via telephone on March 6 that she would “be forced to resign or be fired” the next day.
According to the letter, the termination could not “be deemed voluntary,” and Chatman was not “given the time to carefully consider her options.”
Athletic Director Skip Bertman declined to talk to The Daily Reveille regarding the potential litigation and said through his secretary Wanda Carrier that all questions should be directed to Lamonica.
Lamonica has not yet returned a call regarding Pierson’s letter.