{"id":122730,"date":"2025-06-11T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/from-baltimore-to-400-miles-apart-how-two-litigators-tackled-800k-verdict-against-umass-boston\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:40:29","slug":"from-baltimore-to-400-miles-apart-how-two-litigators-tackled-800k-verdict-against-umass-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/from-baltimore-to-400-miles-apart-how-two-litigators-tackled-800k-verdict-against-umass-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"From Baltimore to 400 Miles Apart: How Two Litigators Tackled $800K Verdict Against UMass Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGeorge certainly feels vindicated,  Patrick Jennings, partner at The Ment Law Group, said. \u201cHe spent the last 10 years trying to point out systemic flaws about how UMass Boston treats old non-tenured track faculty and no one at the university ever took the time 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