“I’m proud of the way I prepare cases,” he told the judge. “I am not able to prepare this one. Is it right to force a party to trial if a lawyer says to you, ‘I just can’t do it. Don’t make me do it’? As bad as it sounds on the record, that’s what I’m saying. Believe me, it hurts to say that because I’m a proud lawyer.”

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 1515