Former Top Lawyer Faces Life in Jail for Phony Deal

• Posted by Law.com on March 26th, 2008


• Filed in News, Risk Management & Compliance

Robert Graham, former associate GC at General Re Corp., could spend the rest of his life in jail. On Feb. 25 a federal jury convicted Graham and four other defendants for aiding a sham deal at American International Group. Graham’s conviction is further proof that in-house lawyers can’t do something that they suspect may be wrong just to please company executives, says one former federal prosecutor, who notes that being an in-house counsel is not a “9-to-5, rubber-stamp, do-what-I’m-told kind of job.”

Read on at Corporate Counsel at Law.com.