“Let me clarify one thing,” Trienens added moments later. “I want to say that the ‘ground up’ features of this agreement are unique. I was told by some very learned hands around this town a year ago that the way to get a case settled is you go and sweet-talk the top people who don’t know much about it, and then the people at the bottom who do not want to settle, they have it imposed on them. This is exactly the opposite of the traditional learning, if that is what it is. This does come from the trial staff and it is relevant because these are the institutional people, not the people at the
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