The U.S. Department of Justice has recommended that companies do “reasonable due diligence” of third parties to avoid any risk of corruption — but the U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t explained what constitutes reasonable due diligence actually.

And for Albert Li, assistant general counsel for the Americas for the medical-device company Zimmer Holdings Inc., and for other in-house counsel, the devil can be in the details.

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