To Schlichtmann, the idea of accepting Eustis’s offer was humiliating. He’d rather go ahead and risk losing everything. It was easy for Schlichtmann to take that risk, Conway thought. He didn’t have a family depending on him. And what about the Woburn families? They were the ones who should really be making this decision, not Schlichtmann.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 2718