Miller Talks Ethics to Inside Counsel

Jeff Miller, of counsel in Seattle, was interviewed for a recent Inside Counsel article, "Tough Calls: Drawing the line on ethical decisions can be tricky for in-house counsel."

"Every public company’s general counsel faces disclosure decisions about what crosses the materiality threshold and when to let the world know. But in smaller, innovation-driven companies, those issues are amplified. Because such businesses are usually in a money-raising mode, publicity both drives the business and opens the floodgates of what can be construed as material.

Jeff Miller has wrestled the issue from every conceivable angle. He spent most of the past three decades as the general counsel or CEO of a string of West Coast biotech and e-commerce firms, including NeoRx Corp., Ostex International Inc., Reprogen Inc. and aQuantive Inc. When it comes to disclosure, he says GCs rarely, if ever, have bright-line standards to follow."