[CCWG-ACCT] Responses to questions from Jones Day

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

I am not sure Jones Day can give advice that will affect ICANN in
any way negatively.

They are "conflicted out" and that is a legal term, not emotion :-)-O


If they give advice contrary to previous ICANN filings they put
ICANN into very serious problems.  If they give advice and later
they file for ICANN differently they put ICANN into very serious
problems.

el (a Gynecologist, but, in the immortal words of Otter Stratton:
    "What's the difference?"
    for the younger ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_House)


On 2015-02-10 09:42 , Chris Disspain wrote:
> All,
> 
> I can feel a slippery slope ahead.  Whoever pays ‘influences’?
> Surely not.  Lawyers are perfectly capable of providing
> independent advice on law.  Where there are several possibilities
> they are perfectly capable of laying them out.  What you don’t
> want is rhetoric or too much advice.  In other words you don’t
> want the lawyers to say you can do a) or b) but WE prefer a).  A
> law firm will respond to the specific instructions they receive.
> They have an obligation to do so.
> 
> The danger is that anyone who doesn’t like the advice will claim
> it is skewed in favour of X or Y. If that's then case I suggest
> each group goes and gets its own advice and then we share notes.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Chris (a lawyer)
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