‘Legal Said It Was Okay’
Stephen R. Williams describes that uneasy feeling an in-house lawyer can experience when overhearing someone in the company saying the heart-stopping phrase “Legal said it was okay.”
Williams, writing for Above the Law, explains that it’s nearly impossible to remember each time he or his boss have weighed in on the legal aspect of a given topic. And then to hear someone who he can’t immediately identify, or cannot recall meeting with, cite something his department has said as the rationale for their action can invoke an immediate sense of panic.
He offers some advice by discussing two of the greatest lessons he has learned in his time in-house.
