<div dir='auto'>Did you read that before embroiling Mr. Hall in your machinations?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 2, 2020 3:19 PM, Nicholas Sarwark via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Dear All,
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When Bill Hall resigned in 2009 after 20 years as General Counsel to the
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Libertarian National Committee, he included the following admonition in his
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resignation letter to the LNC about how they should behave toward their new
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counsel.
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"I urge you to take care with your new general counsel to avoid trying to
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embroil him or her in your latest personal political vendetta. Treat him or
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her with respect. Don't assume he or she is one of the bad guys, and attack
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him or her, just because he or she was asked to and gives legal advice that
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might adversely impact your personal political advantage.
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Your general counsel is there to give advice on legal risks. It is okay to
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listen to your general counsel's advice, consider the facts as you know
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them, and in good faith decide to ignore that advice in proceeding to act,
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because you believe that the political good to be advanced by taking action
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outweighs the legal risks of doing so. However, if you make a habit of
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publicly questioning the accuracy of your general counsel's legal advice,
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and disparaging his or her opinion, don't be surprised if he or she decides
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that the less-than-market and often-late pay for acting as your general
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counsel doesn't merit the unpleasantness and liability risk of doing so."
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Yours in liberty,
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Nick
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