In-house lawyers the world over know that in this age of eagle-eyed regulators and all that Sarbanes-Oxley stuff, it’s important to maintain one’s moral compass.

Former Samsung in-houser KimYong-chul – who alleged in November that the tech conglomerate had created a $221m (£110m) slush fund to bribe Korean officials – received a boost to his own moral standing from a divine source… in the form of a group of Catholic priests.