He’d already filed a partial summary judgment in the Acton suit. Jury trials and personal injury cases almost never entered his life. Usually he represented one large company that was suing another, or was being sued by the government, in disputes that were complicated but dry and bloodless and almost invariably settled out of court. In his entire career, Cheeseman himself had tried only four small cases to a jury. He did not like jury trial work, and he recognized that he was not particularly good at it.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 399