Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 03, 2024

Legal is going to ask you to cease and desist from doing your job.

If we ever wanted to kill a project we asked for the legal department to review it.

The law is what the judge says it is for that day and that trial ;-)

It’s Xwitter, isn’t it?

I would love to see Bliss’ rendering of a ‘Legal Beagle’.

Working on the “What can we get away with?” Strategy.

Ah yes, the battle between what is truly illegal and just playing it safe. I’ve had a couple of those battles with legal before and won them all. The key is to show precidence that has been upheld in the past.

Then release it anyhow.

American business at its “finest.”

Probably.

When illegal doesn’t mean a sick bird…

That’s our biggest problem these days, trying to play games with the system.

Is that money in her other hand? Is she bribing them to make it “legal”?

I once helped terminate the career of a corporate VP who sent an email to his staff instructing them to go to a competitor’s website from their home computers, lie about their affiliation with the type of common institutional type of customer that we served (with explicit instructions on what lies to tell to get access), and look up their pricing, which we, at least, considered a trade secret. It took a while, as our 2 person legal team couldn’t decide if it was illegal, or just unethical. I argued that even if “just” unethical, would we want the story to end up on the front page of the WSJ? They terminated him, yet we STILL ended up on the front page of the WSJ, as well as the NYT (for slightly different behaviors). And in front of Congress. We ended up hiring an “ethics expert” to create ethics guidelines. And she later lost her government position for highly unethical behavior. Full circle madness, that.