My heart is still in Ecuador.
I haven’t written to you in three months because I decided to take a little break and focus on finishing my book, which has evolved into a memoir of our landmark $10 billion pollution judgment against Chevron. We even have a tentative title that I hope to reveal soon. I’m going to share with you the beginning of the book here: The driveway up the steep hill to enter the Danbury federal prison in Connecticut had been traversed by thousands of inmates since it opened in 1940. I never in my wildest imagination thought I would be confined here in the same place as some of the most infamous criminals in U.S. history. I had graduated in the same Harvard Law School class as President Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. A guy like me – a respected lawyer who had fought on behalf of human rights victims for years and who had won a landmark pollution case in the Amazon – was not supposed to end up in a place like this. Worse, I thought that once inside there was a chance I...
