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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Schlictmann meets with his client families in his offices in August, he tells them that the most difficult thing facing the plaintiffs in the upcoming phase 2 trial is the jury asking themselves what question?
(a) How do I make a decision when I am bombarded with so much information?
(b) How do I make a decision when scientists and doctors can't agree?
(c) How do I make an impartial decision?
(d) How do I make a decision if I can't understand all this technical stuff?

2. Who says "We need a vacation from these legal bills."?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Eustis.
(c) Keating.
(d) Jacobs.

3. Nesson says, "That would have turned the entire case around." To what is Nesson referring?
(a) Evidence that Riley had worked for Grace Chemical.
(b) Evidence linking Riley and the tannery to TCE on the 15 acres.
(c) Evidence that the tannery used greater amounts of TCE.
(d) Evidence linking Beatrice to Grace Chemical.

4. On the day the lawyers return to the courtroom to meet with Judge Skinner, Eustis is sitting in the front row of the courtroom gallery. What is he reading?
(a) A motion for a new trial.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) A proposed settlement offer.
(d) Court documents.

5. Where do the Schlictmann team stay when they went to New York for the negotiations?
(a) Apartments rented by Grace for them
(b) Four Seasons Hotel.
(c) Helmsley Palace.
(d) Holiday Inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is referred to as the "waterworks?"

2. Who commissions the Yankee Environmental Engineering Report, known as the Yankee Report?

3. How many days after summation does the jury reach a verdict?

4. Where are the first negotiations between Schlictmann's team and Grace held in Boston?

5. How is the panel of three judges in the Court of Appeals selected?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following the trial, what does Schlictmann's team decide to do?

2. Why does Schlictmann conclude that Grace wants to settle?

3. Who is Albert Eustis and what is his role in the negotiations with Grace Chemical after the trial?

4. Describe the initial Court of Appeals ruling.

5. What is the strategy of the defense during Phase 1 of the trial?

6. What types of questions does Judge Skinner give the jury during jury instructions?

7. What is the "shark effect" that Eustis is worried about in giving a big settlement to Schlictmann?

8. What is Judge Skinner's response to the Court of Appeals ruling?

9. Briefly describe the EPA report that is issued during the initial preparation for the Beatrice appeal involving pump tests performed a year before, even before the trial began.

10. Does Schlictmann do what he wants to do in his summation to the jury at the end of Phase 1?

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