If a lawyer tells you to focus on ethics rather than the letter of the law, you would do well to listen.
Bart Schwartz, a former US prosecutor and the attorney charged by Hewlett-Packard to look into its recent board and media investigations, told a New York Times reporter last week that "doing it legally should not be the test; that is the given. You have to ask what is appropriate and ethical."
Companies have done a lot to prevent their ...