A single lawsuit can bridge the poorest and most powerful Americans.

Evidence

Now, waiting for Eustis, it struck Schlichtmann as bizarre, almost dreamlike, the way he had traveled between the two extremes of American society, from the kitchen of a dilapidated ranch house in east Woburn to this quiet, muted foyer at the heart of one of the nation’s largest and most powerful corporations. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2646

Categorization

• SEED: An essay on the trial lawyer as the last figure who routinely crosses every stratum of American life, from grieving kitchens to corporate atriums, in a single day.