A defense lawyer named Brian Anderson has written an article in this week's Legal Times entitled, "When State Officials Attack."    http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1203866386444&pos=ataglance

Mr Anderson is certainly entitled to his views on state attorneys general and his perspective on the history of the office.  After all, the First Amendment protects all of us to rant which is how Bill O'Reilly makes his living.  (Come to think of it, Mr.O"Reilly should consider inviting Mr Anderson on his show as a guest.) 

The reason I am mentioning this silly article at all is that Mr Anderson purports to give advice to private parties as to how to defend against an investigation or lawsuit by an attorney general or group of attorneys general.   In my humble opinion, Anderson's advice borders on both legal and strategic malpractice.

I hope that no corporation takes his approach seriously (because it will be unnecessarily hurt) and that no attorney general or assistant attorney general hold the article against some of the very gifted lawyers in the O'Melveny firm.  Every family has a weird cousin.

You can read the article yourself in the Legal Times or in today's http://www.law.com