Final Justice(SPOILERS)

The movie ends with Paul Newman winning a substantial amount of money from the hospital. That was a good way to end the movie with this great moral and ethical victory. But in the real world an appellate court would have reduced the financial penalty or overturned the verdict entirely based on Newman's unethical conduct. Especially when he acted against his clients wishes.
But I would have been okay with that.
Reason being is that the comatose woman's brother and sister wanted to use the money($210,000) to set her up in a care facility in Boston and then use the remaining money to relocate to Phoenix Arizona and start THEIR lives over. last time I saw this movie, I almost fell out of my chair when they told Paul Newman that. Reason being is that for the past ten years I lost my dad to cancer, my oldest brother to a stroke and my mother to kidney failure. During this time, the remaining members of my family, despite some deep divisions stretching back decades, came together to care for our sick family members. It wasn't easy or pleasant but we set aside our differences and worked together until it was over this last April with the passing of my mother. It would have been UNTHINKABLE to have set them up in a convalescent and then abandoned our family members. I know the comatose patient had zero chances of waking up but you don't abandon a family member like that.
Now I'm not bragging on myself or my family. But after what we went through this past decade, I would have been fine with the comatose patient's sister and brother in law not getting a dime. As for Paul Newman, he managed to cleanse his soul of any demons or sins he may or may not have committed.