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compliance programs usually focus on the kinds of things that
salespeople and midlevel executives might say or write that can
cause problems down the line. You've already probably heard more
than you care to about e-mails suggesting "cutting off the air
supply" of a competitor and slides claiming that you "dominate"
an industry. Lots of you have helped to create responsible,
compliance-driven corporate cultures in which your clients, even
the self-starters among them, think first--and better yet,
consult you--before they commit any bold new idea to paper or
your shared drive.  And though it's hard to prove, that culture
saves your clients a lot of heartache. With machine-readable
electronic document productions the order of the day, poor
choices of words are not likely to escape attention the next
time your company has a big merger in front of the Department of
Justice (DOJ) or Federal Trade Commission (FTC). By helping your
people understand that