The law firm also located a witness who worked at the tannery who was prepared to testify that he had participated in removing sludge from the tannery's site and dumping it into a nearby stream over several years. The law firm hired experts who found high concentrations in the Woburn water supply of trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical commonly used in production processes and known to be a possible cause of cancer. Families of the leukemia victims retained the services of a small Boston law firm (3/4 attorneys) to look into what they thought was the pollution of their water supply by a local tannery owned by Beatrice Foods, and by the chemical company W.R. In Woburn, Massachusetts (not far from Boston) in the 1980s, a cluster (or a particular area with a high incidence) of leukemia developed. It's a fascinating, relatively suspenseful account of a modern-day tragedy that offers the truest view of civil litigation, at least in the federal courts. I read this book early in my legal career, probably 20 years ago. Litigation – A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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