In fact the firm was asked only to improve standards, and in that it has succeeded.
This was not as embarrassing as the time when Mr. Chait, while working at the talent agency the Firm, was asked to sit in on a meeting to screen a video of a new artist.
During the first world war, the firm was asked by the government to use its knowledge and production facilities to supply "iron ration" plain biscuits.
When Freyer Architects, a Manhattan firm, renovated a fourth-floor apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone and added a penthouse on the roof, the firm was asked for "sunlight, a garden and ecological friendliness," Warren Freyer said.
Ignition got a big chance to prove its artistic bona fides early on, when the firm was asked to submit designs for a relatively high-profile movie, "Premonition," starring Sandra Bullock.
Not least because the firm was asking him to play to his strengths.
But there "was absolutely no question of the firm being asked to provide News International with a clean bill of health which it could deploy years later in wholly different contexts for wholly different purposes," Harbottle & Lewis said.
"There was absolutely no question of the firm being asked to provide News International with a clean bill of health which it could deploy years later in wholly different contexts for wholly different purposes," it said.
The firm was asked to examine 2,500 e-mails involving Mr. Goodman to defend against his claim that superiors knew about his hacking.
On a recent visit to Downing Street, the foreign head of a multinational firm was asked by his hosts which country he thought had the better economic prospects, Britain or Germany.
