“When we read about mayors, CEOs of major corporations and ministers of megachurches getting in conflict-of-interest financial or personal trouble, history has proven there is often a common denominator,” observes attorney Steven Kelly, a former prosecutor and associate commissioner at the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
They probably failed to seek the advice of outside counsel. “From small, family-run businesses to massive corporations,” Kelly adds, “we repeatedly see the one theme that proves how beneficial it would have been to seek the advice of outside counsel and obtain clinically objective guidance that a good, truly independent attorney can provide.”
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