"We cannot afford to lose them," Harry McPherson, the White House counsel, warned Johnson in a bravely blunt memo.
The department, in a letter from its legal counsel, warned that flouting state education law is "grounds for removal" of the board and the superintendent.
Later in the day, Harvey R. Miller, G.M.'s chief bankruptcy counsel, warned that the company had no alternative to the proposed sale.
But publication of the Pentagon Papers presented uncharted dangers; The Times's outside counsel warned Mr. Sulzberger that the paper's reputation could be gravely damaged and that the publisher himself might go to jail.
The executive chairman of the ATP, Étienne de Villiers, and his general counsel warned executives at the sports marketing giant IMG that their business would suffer if they testified against the ATP in an antitrust lawsuit, according to a letter written by IMG's senior counsel.
Edward Keelean, Detroit's acting corporation counsel, warned that the appointment of an emergency manager would trigger court challenges by labor unions and others.
"Our legal counsel warned us of the unintended negative consequences of participating in interviews that could jeopardize our continued exemption by Health Canada," said Céu do Montreal vice president Robert Ferguson in an email to VICE.
Students claimed Provost Patrick V. Farrell and the university's counsel warned during a meeting with students of color that the school would lose federal funding and close if the Office of Civil Rights found it had violated federal laws.
In New Jersey, the State Legislature paid a private lawyer $412,759 to defend the law, which they passed over the governor's veto and which the state attorney general and their own legislative counsel had warned them was flawed.
WASHINGTON -- In an incredibly rare public appearance in February, White House counsel Bob Bauer warned that the political standoff over judicial nominees was threatening the very fabric of government.
