There is an interesting article on legal ethics at CNN.com today. For those of you just starting your summer jobs, some of the issues raised in the article will be particularly worthy of note.
The article recounts the story of Vinson & Elkins, the firm retained by Enron to do a “preliminary investigation” of its business and accounting issues.
The firm defended its "breathtaking[ly] shallow" investigation with a letter from Charles Wolfram (a "distinguished scholar of legal ethics," according to his online bio) of Cornell Law School that justified V&E’s actions, arguing it is “customary and appropriate for a company to conduct a preliminary investigation before undertaking a full-scale one, and that the firm had not violated conflict-of-interest rules.”
Professor William Simon of Columbia counters Wolfram’s letter with a law review article entitled The Market for Bad Legal Advice. In it he argues that the Wolfram letter is "just one example of patently bad advice offered in exchange for lucrative compensation by academics" whom he contends are becoming "enablers of pernicious... practices."
Ouch.
Charles Wolfram, former staff of Cornell University is a hack and a fraud he is swindling hundred of thousands of dollars from his half-black grandchild whom stoled custody of by using forged papers from his buddy's at cornell and judges in the area in 2000 (Hon M.JOHN SHERMAN And he is now trying to use status and money to keep his half-black granddaughter mother from removing her daughter from the stolen custody of he and his psycopath son Peter Wolfram by throwing a round money to Mr. Robert l. Sanders,Esq(SBN47117)
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Posted by: Katherine Wolfram | August 09, 2010 at 04:50 PM