51. Silvio J. DeCarli, a company lawyer, said details of the settlement were confidential. 52. Skilling sought to answer by referring to board minutes and what he said was the advice of company lawyers. 53. Some of the documents released Wednesday also showed the involvement of cigarette company lawyers in scientific research, a theme that has been struck before in other industry documents. 54. The company lawyers have argued that TCI, as the largest cable company, normally receives price breaks when it makes long-term contracts for programming. 55. The economist also agreed with company lawyer Donald Kempf that office supply prices were likely to drop even if the two companies merged. 56. The industry claims they were the produced as legally-protected communications between executives and company lawyers. 57. The insurance company lawyers said the RICO claims, on behalf of millions of health plan subscribers, should be dismissed. 58. The machines spat out a letter addressed to the directors and company lawyers. 59. The tobacco executive said that company lawyers would work with lawmakers to digest and organize the documents. 60. This disclosure comes as fired Andersen auditor David Duncan blames company lawyers for shredding documents. |