By Quentin Langley
How do you guarantee that your investigation will not be seen as independent? First, set it up internally. Second, staff it with your own lawyers.
It would be absurd for me to claim that the conclusions of BP’s investigation into Deepwater Horizon are wrong. I have no expertise in this. But the presentation is completely wrong. No-one will have confidence in the report – not BP’s partners and not its critics.
The lead author insists that the lawyers helped with the internal logic of the argument. Lawyers certainly have that training and can help with that. But lawyers also care about liability. If you ask lawyers for their opinion on a report like this they are sure to guide you towards a wording that downplays your liability. They wouldn’t be doing their job if they didn’t.
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