It Pays to Heed the Advice of Corporate Counsel
- Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on June 21st, 2006
- Filed in Risk Management & Compliance
Denise Diaz at CompanyCounselor provides some additional examples of why good advice from inhouse counsel is critical to keeping companies out of trouble:
"What is up with corporate America? You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about some business executive somewhere being investigated, indicted, convicted, or sentenced.
We all know about the Ken Lay et. al trial, which is now in the hands of a jury. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg."
Link: CompanyCounselor: It Pays to Heed the Advice of Corporate Counsel.
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