"If there is an appropriate way short of litigation, Harvard tries to do that," Casey says. "They're [Harvard's lawyers] reasonable people."
Yet he says Harvard only will settle when it is being presented with what it feels are reasonable demands.
Quite a few of the lawsuits filed against the University in the last two and-a-half years were indeed settled before reaching a judge or jury.
These include two 1998 suits in Middlesex Superior Court from the family of Trang Phuong Ho, who was killed by her Dunster House roommate in 1995.
Also, in 1998 Harvard settled a suit by an undergraduate who was injured in 1995 when a windowpane fell on her head in the Museum of Comparative Zoology building. Recently, the Harvard Business Review was sued in Federal District Court for using the term "breakthrough thinking," a term trademarked by another company, in one of their publications.
The suit was settled the same year.
While the University often defends employees who are sued in their capacity as Harvard workers, it does not provide them absolute immunity.
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