Mealey's (June 17, 2021, 11:11 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Japanese businessman ordered by an arbitral panel to pay his former law firm $54 million for a bonus fee after four months of representation argues in a June 4 appellant brief to the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should vacate the award and order a new arbitration because the panel violated due process by prohibiting him from submitting a defense after he missed a hearing due to a medical emergency....