SAN FRANCISCO—Patrick Norton testified Tuesday about what one could only hope was the most awkward meeting of his legal career.
Late one afternoon in September 2011, Norton, then a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, met with Sanford “Sandy” Wadler, the general counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. who’d hired him nearly two years earlier to look into potential breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. After Norton’s investigation turned up significant issues in multiple countries, he told Wadler that he would recommend to the company’s board the next day that Wadler be fired for allowing the problems to develop on his watch.
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