Word: trialing
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According to Abramian's lawyers, the University made no settlement offer above $15,000 during the trial--none of which would have gone to Abramian, since $17,000 of any settlement would go to the lawyer who did pre-trial work on the case...
Doherty says Harvard's confidence may have been one reason why the University did not make larger settlement offers throughout the trial...
...were much better prepared," he adds. "Frankly, I don't understand what the Harvard lawyers were thinking of, because we had 20 witnesses on their witness list, and they never offered any reasonable settlement offer at all. They were pretty confident that they were going to win the trial...
...University is well within its legal rights in not paying Abramian the jury verdict, since the appeals process in the case is ongoing and a new trial on at least part of the damages against the University seems inevitable...
Abramian's trial judge has already acknowledged that he failed to instruct the jury that it had to find the University's actions "outrageous" in order to award punitive damages, a sum that would attempt to prevent Harvard from discriminating again...