This money was important. Schlichtmann and his partners had made a million dollars from the Carney case, but they’d already spent most of that. Everyone in the office, from Kathy Boyer down to the cleaning lady, had gotten a big bonus. Schlichtmann had renovated his apartment and bought the new Porsche, and Conway and Crowley had each bought large houses in the suburbs. But all of that was petty cash compared with the real expense facing the firm.

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 714