Jan schlichtmann john travolta biography

Jan Richard Schlichtmann (born March 16 1951) is an American attorney specializing in personal injury law and toxic torts.

Jan schlichtmann john travolta biography

He was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., and Cornell University, J.D., and was admitted to the bar in 1977.

Legal career

Schlichtmann became famous in the 1980s as a result of his lawsuit against W.

R. Grace and Beatrice Co. (Anderson v. Cryovac) alleging that chemicals from these companies had contaminated drinking water in a town north of Boston, Woburn, Massachusetts. Extensive tests by Schlichtmann's experts and the Harvard School of Public Health showed that defendants W.

R. Grace and Beatrice Co. had polluted Woburn's water with dangerous levels of various carcinogenic chemicals.

The contamination is alleged to have resulted in the deaths of children from leukemia. This civil action case, often referred to as "Woburn," was chronicled in the 1995 book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, which in