"Recognizing the limited circumstances that justify vacating an arbitration award, we are satisfied that one such circumstance is present here: the award was procured by fraud," stated Jordan. "An honest process is what those who agree to arbitration have a right to expect."

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"The odds are high that [students] will graduate, pass the bar, and get a job—the statistics confirm this." Erwin Chemerinsky, dean, and Jesse H. Choper distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, told Law.com Wednesday, adding that "My advice is to enjoy the experience. Some of that is keeping it all in perspective."

"Whether remote classes were an adequate substitute for in-person instruction" after the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted BU's spring 2020 semester "goes to the issue of damages, not breach," wrote the federal judge, who also found that damages issues must go forward based on other reasons.

"It's important for consumers that the industry is called out on bad behavior and if I'm the person who has to do it, then I'm the person who has to do it," Mighty CEO Joshua Schwadron said.

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The firm had previously said its UK workforce could work remotely for up to 50% of the time post-pandemic.

"I am totally in the dark about what it takes to make partner here," said one Big Law associate.

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"Reinhart was on duty at a particular time. They presented him with the affidavits and he has to make the call; he's doing his job," said a former federal judge.

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At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers continued to focus on an indemnity agreement 3M reached on July 25 to transfer liability to its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, which, one day later, filed for bankruptcy. "You can't use this court to perpetrate a fraud on a bankruptcy," she told one of 3M's lawyers.

"There's all kinds of suggestions that this (the search) was done on the fly ... and I just am 100% certain that that's not right," one close Wray associate said.

"Legalization in Florida through the adult-use ballot initiative will create one of the largest state-legal marijuana markets in the country and, at least in the beginning stages, will be a windfall for existing [medical marijuana treatment centers] that are conducting sales at that time," said Matthew Ginder, a partner in the cannabis law practice at Greenspoon Marder.

"A lot of us haven't felt like we belong in the room but the reason we're here is because we're valuable," Amanda R. Moncada-Perkins, a FGLP mentor, DePaul law adjunct instructor and founding attorney of Stoutegy Law, said in an email to Law.com.

The Montana Supreme Court denied a request by the state and the governor to file supplemental amicus briefing citing the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade in June.