A once-wealthy star litigator ended the case financially destitute and bankrupt

Evidence

In the Chapter 7 papers filed in bankruptcy court in Boston, he listed his assets as fourteen dollars in a checking account, a fifty-dollar cassette radio, one hundred dollars in cash, and five hundred dollars’ worth of clothes. (The expensive suits, after all, were no longer new.) He owed his creditors $1,231,542, of which state and federal taxes accounted for almost two thirds. — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 3117

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 3117
• XREF: connects to: Litigation costs drove the lawyers to genuine personal financial ruin — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2717

Library Connections

• Litigation costs drove the lawyers to genuine personal financial ruin #exemplifies (0.85) — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2717