Did Arthur Andersen take a bad rap for tossing documents, or is it Exhibit A for corporate corruption?
It began with an e-mail that any in-house counsel could have written: a reminder to colleagues about the company’s document retention policy. “It will be helpful to make sure that we have complied with the policy,” wrote Nancy Temple, a Chicago-based in-house lawyer for the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, in October 2001. The policy called […]