“But your client breached the agreement!” – declared a Fifth Circuit Judge while pounding a fist with each word.

“Respectfully, your honor, there never was an agreement for my client to breach.”

It was one of those moments that gave me flashbacks to those heated law school moot court practices that were aimed at preparing me for this type of exchange. Nonetheless, it was still rather daunting in real life.
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