After seven years of pretrial litigation, millions of pages of discovery and hundreds of depositions, attorneys William L. DeProspo and Steven J. Phillips are now about to get their day in court in front of a jury.
Their fight with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) over chemicals in its plants began in May 1995, when Keith Barrack walked into DeProspo's new law office in Goshen, N.Y., and said that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Barrack suspected there was a connection between his cancer and his years of working in a "clean room" at IBM's semiconductor chip manufacturing plant in East Fishkill, N.Y., because toxic chemicals were used in the manufacturing process.
Details here from the National Law Journal.