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Baskins resigned her position in September after being subpoenaed by Congress to testify about HP’s investigation. Sonsini is no longer advising HP’s board, although his firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, has said it continues to perform work for the Palo Alto company.
Baskins declined to testify before Congress, citing her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Sonsini told Congress that he had no knowledge of HP’s internal leak investigation while it was going on.
Sonsini also testified that he asked Perkins if he left HP’s board because he disagreed with the company’s “operations, policies or practices” � a key finding that would legally require HP to detail to investors why Perkins resigned. Perkins answered no, Sonsini said.
But Perkins’ lawyer, Viet Dinh, disputed Sonsini’s account, saying Perkins had made it clear to the board and others that he had serious misgivings about how the investigation was conducted and how Keyworth was confronted with its findings.
