“Whatever you do, don’t get the lawyers involved.”
I’m sure you’ve heard such comments. You hear them at for-profit companies too, but my guess is they are less frequent. The lure of revenue has a way of focusing everybody’s attention on the task at hand. Corporate in-house counsel give advice with an eye toward preserving the project, whatever it is, so that it doesn’t unravel later due to legal issues–if, that is, they don’t kill it early on because it can’t pass the legal smell test. The board, the stockholders and the management would go ballistic if their lawyers failed to
