Goofs

Near the end of the movie, the envelope from the EPA appears on Facher's desk before the employee places it there.

At the meeting in the hotel where Jan asks for $300+ million, Cheeseman begins calculating the figures on a pad of paper with his left hand. A cut to an over-the-shoulder shot shows him writing the figures with his right hand.

Jan races his Porsche toward Woburn to meet with the families for the first time. He zooms along one distinctive stretch of road and in the next scene he is being given a speeding ticket on a bridge. When he leaves Woburn, he is seen racing along the same stretch of road, only to be stopped again on the same bridge. The bridge has moved from being after the stretch of road heading into Woburn, to being after the same stretch when driving away from Woburn.

In the Crane vs. Massachusetts General Hospital case with the wheelchair plaintiff, the defense lawyer writes a settlement offer for $1.2 million on a Post-It note with a Mont Blanc tapered tip pen but the scene cuts back to the amount being written with a flat top Waterman.

Towards the end of the movie, the newspaper that Anne is holding flips over and back again between shots.

Near the end of the movie, Jan states that only 5 out of 50 appeals win and that the odds are easy to calculate, 10 to 1 against. Actually, that's 45 to 5, or only 9 to 1 against.

When Boston and Jan Schlichtmann's office suffers a widespread power outage during an evening thunderstorm, he uses a PBX90 AT&T Merlin office phone which would've been inoperable without AC electricity thus he couldn't have called Al Eustis at W.R. Grace.

Al Eustis tells Jan there is an unspoken rule at the Harvard club that business is never transacted there, there is no such rule, spoken or unspoken. Eustis was most likely testing Jan's patience by delaying talking about a settlement his client doesn't want to pay.

Jan didn't state the amount only for punitive damages and not for compensation because not all civil suits sue for both.

Even though Gordon would have needed Jan's signature and consent in order to mortgage his house, it's possible all the partners signed over all their properties and other assets when they started their firm.

When Uncle Pete turned down Jan and Gordon's request for a loan, even though they could have tried another bank, they didn't bother because the bank would charge them a higher interest rate.

Near the end of the movie a fork lift truck drives a skid of boxes of paper onto an elevator. The elevator doors start to close but then reopen. They close again once the fork lift driver hits the proper button.

The odds of Jan getting two speeding tickets in the exact same place, one each way on the bridge, are incalculable.

Al Eustis tells Jan he won't pay the amount of money to settle the lawsuit because once the amount is disclosed to the public, they'll file lawsuits as well. With all his years of experience in civil law, Jan should've known this is only an excuse because all contract settlement terms will remain confidential to any outside party, as the judge states at 1 hour and 30 minutes into the movie.

Al (James Gandolfini) tells Jan and his staff that he uses tap water for cooking and cleaning, and lemonade, but he uses bottled water for his drinking water. About halfway through the movie, he is sitting at the dinner table with his family, and Al's wife is pouring ice water from the tap, and not bottled water as he had said.

Anne Anderson tells Jan she'll be sitting in the back left hand corner everyday in court but we see her sitting in the back right hand corner.

When Jan saw Riley liter on his own property he should've testified to this in court or at the very least tell the judge Riley lack of care for the environment and his utter disrespect for the laws that keep our environments clean, his testimony could only help his case.

With all his years of experience of practicing civil law, Jan would have known the settlement terms he was asking was completely unrealistic and unreasonable.