Word: schlichtmann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main attraction of the symposium--which attracted about 150 educators from around the country--was Schlichtmann, who was the focus of "A Civil Action." Schlichtmann--played by John Travolta in the film--spoke about how the case changed him from a hotshot, Porsche-driving lawyer to a proponent of compromise and mediation...
...Litigation is like war," Schlichtmann said. "My war lasted nine years and after it, like any veteran, I asked...
...Schlichtmann stressed that the best way to deal with problems like theone in Woburn is to forge a partnership between community, government and companies, rather than to go to court...
...wonderful experience to have a book and a movie about you," joked Jan R. Schlichtmann, counsel for the plaintiffs. "I encourage all of you to have...
Following the events depicted in A Civil Action, a devastated Schlichtmann moved to Hawaii, opened a lighting business and vowed to give up the practice of law. After the tortures of the Woburn case, which wiped out nine years of his life, escaping to sunnier shores seemed like a reasonable response. But Hawaii held him for only three years. Now he's back East with new clients in polluted communities in New York and Massachusetts as well as in Toms River. Has he forgotten the lesson he learned? Is he hunting for another monster lawsuit that will crush him into...