Gordon put a stop to the twice-a-week fresh flower arrangements from Fleural Lis. He saved another two hundred dollars a month by canceling the contract with the Greening Touch Company, which pruned, watered, and fed the office’s potted ferns and ficus trees. (“It’s fucking ridiculous,” Gordon said of that contract.) He stopped paying Schlichtmann’s student loan from Cornell Law School. He stopped paying the bank loan on Schlichtmann’s Porsche, and he let the insurance lapse.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 1885