Richard Dongell led the Firm’s trial team (including Tom Vandenburg, Mike Gallagher, and Paul Rasmussen) in successfully representing a Northern California City sued by 32 plaintiffs in a case personally organized by Erin Brockovich.  The suit alleged that the City caused or contributed to PCE and TCE contamination in groundwater from which the plaintiffs’ families drew their drinking water.  Plaintiffs alleged numerous personal injury claims, including microcephaly and lissencephaly.  Plaintiffs had been making collective settlement demands in the $30 to $50 million range. But following the Court’s granting of our partial motion for summary judgment, and faced with the remaining deficiencies in plaintiffs’ case that we addressed in our motions in limine, plaintiffs’ counsel so substantially reduced their demand on the eve of trial that the City was able and pleased to settle the entire case for $1.5 million.