[phkahler]

>> I'm disgusted by these high-powered law firms...

It's not the lawyers so much as the private equity folks who hired them. Asking lawyers to forego business on [subjective] moral grounds is similar to doing so for engineers - like recent refusals to work on government projects. Some will, some won't.

[xenophonf]

This is the moral equivalent of "I was just following orders." You always have a choice whether to engage in unethical behavior, and subverting the scientific process certainly qualifies as such.