Legal Ethics Forum has posted an update on Nancy Temple's career (here). Nancy Temple was the Arthur Andersen lawyer whom the jurors in the obstruction of justice case blamed (wrongly, I think) as the "corrupt persuader." I remember how several of my in-house counsel friends shuddered when they read Ms. Temple's email warning David Duncan not to call a recurring expense a non-recurring one in a press release. That's a normal email for a lawyer to send, but I think that the jury felt as if Ms. Temple was trying to do something other than clear up an accounting classification. (I also think that the public's distaste for lawyers generally contributed to the verdict.)
I'm very glad that Ms. Temple's doing well. I think she had gotten a raw deal.
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