L.A. Law (TV Series)

Watts a Matter? (1990)

Michael Chiklis: Jimmy Hoffs

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• Jimmy Hoffs : This is it? Your fancy office?

  Victor Sifuentes : Shut up.

  Jimmy Hoffs : Oh, I can see why you left the PD's office, look this a desk and a rug.

  Victor Sifuentes : So, come on. You really brought suit against this liquor company?

  Jimmy Hoffs : It's a good cause of action, Victor. 40-year-old dentist, moderate to occasional drinker, never to excess, cirrhosis of the liver, dead.

  Victor Sifuentes : And you can prove that it was the booze that killed him?

  Jimmy Hoffs : I've got to forensic pathologists who can prove it. And it gets better. 18 years the guy drank only one thing. Nolsten blended, which means I don't have to argue any market share theory, I can go after an individual manufacturer.

  Victor Sifuentes : Jimmy, you, you know that nobody has ever nailed a liquor company for this.

  Jimmy Hoffs : That's because all the previous cases involved chronic alcoholics. My guy was a moderate drinker. I've got enough character witnesses to fill Dodgers stadium. No pre-existing liver condition, no comparative negligence, no assumption of the risk, but we've got a widow with two children, this is a perfect test case.

  Victor Sifuentes : It's perfect. So why do you need me?

  Jimmy Hoffs : Because I'm a bomb, remember?

  Victor Sifuentes : Come on.

  Jimmy Hoffs : And because I'm a solo practitioner up against the giant law firm. I need your resources to fight them back. Come on, Victor, you and me a team again just like the old days, we'll knock him dead.

  Victor Sifuentes : I would have to run this by our executive committee, but, yeah. Yeah, I think I'm in.

  Jimmy Hoffs : Great! Settlement conference tomorrow. This is gonna be good, Victor. This is gonna be good.