Your firm represents two tire manufacturers who are being sued by several city and county governments for price fixing. The discovery stage is almost finished and there's strong evidence to suggest that some company executives did, in fact, engage in illegal price fixing. However, the top executives refuse to believe that people they hired would do something like that. Your supervising attorney will most likely

A. resign from the case.

B. try early neutral evaluation.

C. ask for the appointment of a special master.

D. try a summary jury trial.