The rich are different. You, for example, probably have to take care of your own property taxes. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, has the President of the Washington State Bar Association - a Partner at Amazon's corporate law firm who chaired the state's Enron-inspired Ethics Committee - handle the taxes on stately Bezos Manor.
"The press is entirely wrong," Hewlett-Packard counsel Larry Sonsini just told a Congressional hearing panelist. "I never took the position that pretexting is legal." He's speaking now at the hearing about HP's pretexting case.
When Hewlett-Packard admitted that the company tried to spy on and misinform journalists at CNET, the New York Times, and other papers, the media was, well, not amused. The upshot is that we all get to see the opposition writing guest editorials in major papers. The lawyer for ex-HP board member Tom Perkins (who resigned when he discovered HP's investigators spied on him) tells the Wall Street Journal:
It would be completely irresponsible to imply that Sun Microsystems lawyer Bruce Kerr, podcaster and singer of political and parody songs like "If You've Come Here to Be an American," "An Imam of Mine," and "Sittin' on the Dock of Dubai" is at all representing Sun with his music. No, even though he names himself as an attorney for Sun Microsystems without any such disclaimer, despite what he learned in law school, a proper media outlet will not draw any undue connection between "Loose Bruce" Kerr and Sun Microsystems.
The LAT profiles industry uber-lawyer Skip Brittenham, who, it turns out, is more than merely one of the industry's most powerful behind-the-scenes players. ("All roads lead to Skip" declares Sony's Amy Pascal! "If you're going to have just one new Lew Wasserman this year, make it Skip Brittenham!" says Harvey Weinstein of the The Weinstein Company Gazette! etc etc.) He's also a dedicated dad, devoted fisherman, and, it seems, an amateur comedian. Humanizes the Times:
