He sacrificed everything - home, friends, and reputation - not for money, but for what he believed to be the truth. In the end, the struggle nearly cost the lawyer his sanity. At the heart of the legal system, he was confronted by powerful and well-connected interests who would do anything to win. The case turned into an epic struggle that took nine years of the lawyer's life. And you'll meet his adversaries, foremost among them a crafty old trial lawyer, chairman of the litigation department at one of the biggest and most feared law firms in Boston. In this book, you'll meet the Harvard Law professor who told the lawyer that this case was worth a billion dollars, that it was the sort of lawsuit that would ring the alarm in corporate boardrooms across America. Against his better judgment, the lawyer found himself drawn into the case. Two of the nation's largest corporations, each with a plant near the wells, stood accused. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small town north of Boston where the city wells had been poisoned by industrial chemicals. The lawyer had not wanted the case at first - it was too big, too complicated, too risky. A civil action / Jonathan Harr Book Bib ID
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