Last Title Card: Judge Skinner found out that John Riley deliberately concealed evidence at the trial. His tannery was torn down in 1990.
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Last Title Card: Judge Skinner found out that John Riley deliberately concealed evidence at the trial. His tannery was torn down in 1990.
Last Title Card: It took several years to settle his debts, but only one year to fall off Boston's Ten Most Eligible Bachelors list.
Jerome Facher: And one last thing: if you don't know what the answer is going to be, never ask a witness "why". Ever.
Jan Schlichtmann: Nobody calls anymore? Not even the creditors? Are the phones still working?
Jan Schlichtmann: Don't worry about it, everything's under control.
Jan Schlichtmann: ladies and gentlemen of the jury there's a small town north of Boston called Woburn and Woburn is like many small towns it has homes, churches schools and industry, but Woburn has something else: more than its share of sickness and death
Jerome Facher: A plaintiff's case depends on momentum the few objections he gets the better the case will go so whenever you can you should object, irrelevance: objection hearsay: objection best evidence: objection authenticity: objection if you should fall asleep at the counsel chair the first thing you say when you wake up should be "objection"
James Gordon: Our contingency fee is, as you know, as you agreed to, as it is customary is forty percent but Jan suggested and we all agreed to reduce that to twenty eight percent or 2.2 million dollars. Our expenses: what we actually paid trying this case is 3.5 million dollars, subtracting that and the twenty eight percent in fees from the eight million we got from Grace and dividing it equally among you: comes to three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars per family
: Judge Skinner found out that John Riley deliberately concealed evidence at the trial. His tannery was torn down in 1990.
: It took several years to settle his debts, but only one year to fall off Boston's Ten Most Eligible Bachelors list.
Last Title Card: Judge Skinner found out that John Riley deliberately concealed evidence at the trial. His tannery was torn down in 1990.
Last Title Card: It took several years to settle his debts, but only one year to fall off Boston's Ten Most Eligible Bachelors list.
Jerome Facher: And one last thing: if you don't know what the answer is going to be, never ask a witness "why". Ever.
Jan Schlichtmann: Nobody calls anymore? Not even the creditors? Are the phones still working?
Jan Schlichtmann: ladies and gentlemen of the jury there's a small town north of Boston called Woburn and Woburn is like many small towns it has homes, churches schools and industry, but Woburn has something else: more than its share of sickness and death
Jan Schlichtmann: Don't worry about it, everything's under control.
James Gordon: Mrs. Anderson, you're looking at four guys who are broke. We lost everything trying this case. Anne Anderson: How can you even begin to compare what you've lost, to what we've lost.
Jan Schlichtmann: Oh, I see, when you say it's over, you mean it's over. It's time for me to go my separate way... Kevin Conway: You always went your separate way, Jan.
Al Eustis: Let's be honest I can afford to pay you almost anything you ask for, it's not the money, it's what a settlement that says, it says we're guilty, and that says to every two bit personal injury lawyer in Boston, "hey, let's all run up to Woburn, and sign up every jerk with a head cold", creates a shark effect, and that I can't afford, give me a number. Jan Schlichtmann: I'm not going to negotiate with myself Al, I'm going to throw out numbers that you'll say no to them, you'll have to come up with them. Al Eustis: Eight million. Jan Schlichtmann: I can't go to the families with that, I can't go to them empty handed. Al Eustis: Since when is eight million dollars empty handed? Eight million dollars is a lot of money. Jan Schlichtmann: I owe them more than that. Al Eustis: What do you owe them? You owe them your career? You owe them that much? Don't do it, don't go for broke on this one.
John Riley: I started working for my father sweeping the beam house floors for my father which he swept for his father when he was seven years old which my boys swept when they were seven years old... Jan Schlichtmann: Please answer the question I asked and not one I didn't. Silicon and trichloroethylene mixed together are used to waterproof leather, are they not? John Riley: Jan Schlichtmann: Let the record show the witness has emptied a glass of water on the table. Mr. Riley, what do you intend to say by pouring a glass of water on my conference table? John Riley: This is how silicon is applied to leather to waterproof it. I'm answering your question. Jan Schlichtmann: It's poured on. Some of it must spill off on to the floor, like the water spilling off the conference table and on to my rug. That's the part I'm interested in. How was the silicon and trichlorethylene cleaned up? John Riley: We never used TCE. Jan Schlichtmann: "TCE"? I didn't say "TCE". I said "trichlorethylene". You said "TCE", as it commonly known to those who use it. Mr. Riley, do you mind if we check your purchase orders, receipts, ect? John Riley: Be my guest. We have those records going back three years. Everything else, we dumped.
Jerome Facher: In forty five years of practicing law, I've never waited in a corridor for a verdict. Jan Schlichtmann: I always do. Jerome Facher: I can tell you're good at it: you seem to be at peace doing it, do you think its good staying outside this long? Or is it bad? Jan Schlichtmann: For who? Jerome Facher: For me, you can never tell, jury duty is more fun than working at the post office. Jan Schlichtmann: It's bad for both of us, the jury will see the truth. Jerome Facher: In a courtroom you won't find anything that even resembles the truth. Jan Schlichtmann: Eight kids are dead. Jerome Facher: The minute you filed the compliant the minute it entered the justice system is when this case stopped being about dead children. I know you're a high stakes gambler, its apart of your profession, why don't we test your born again righteousness of our courts with a high stakes gamble? Jan Schlichtmann: If that's a settlement offer, that's not enough. Jerome Facher: What if I could add six zeroes to that? That'd be twenty million dollars, wouldn't that put things in prospective in terms of truth, justice and dead children? Jan Schlichtmann: If you want to talk seriously about a settlement offer let's get the decision makers and talk seriously. Jerome Facher: The decision makers are already here, it's just you and me we're like kings sitting in a castle deciding important things like the fate of others. Counting money in our counting room. I'll leave the twenty dollars here, go back to my throne room and wait for your decision but if you're looking for the truth you'll find it where it always is: the bottom of the deepest ocean.
Jan Schlichtmann: they want out right? Its time they went their separate way. Do you know what I think of that? "Fine, let them". I can imagine worst things. Kevin Conway: like what? Jan Schlichtmann: so what if we have to start over? We did it once we can do it again, the two of us?
Jan Schlichtmann: Bill, how much did Grace make last year? William Cheeseman: I have no idea but I have a feeling you do Jan Schlichtmann: One hundred ninety eight million dollars Jan Schlichtmann: And, Beatrice? Jerome Facher: I don't know Jan Schlichtmann: Four hundred thirty six million dollars together that's six hundred thirty four million dollars. One year that's net. So that's what they made, this is how much they'd be made to pay: to compensate the families, to provide for their economic security in the future William Cheeseman: Don't forget you, compensating you Jan Schlichtmann: And to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again
Jan Schlichtmann: Oh, I see. When you say it's over, it's *over*. It's time I went my separate way. Kevin Conway: You always went your separate way, Jan.
Jerome Facher: A plaintiff's case depends on momentum the few objections he gets the better the case will go so whenever you can you should object, irrelevance: objection hearsay: objection best evidence: objection authenticity: objection if you should fall asleep at the counsel chair the first thing you say when you wake up should be "objection"
