The Foreign-Bribery Case Exposing the Freebies Doled Out by American Law Firms

A foreign-bribery trial unfolding in federal court in Camden, N.J., has shed light on how large corporate law firms get their bills paid. In a word: freebies.

The defense team representing American businessman Joseph Sigelman made this point partly for amusement, it seemed. But the defense sought to signal to the jury that the government's main witness, Sigelman's former in-house attorney, Gregory Weisman, is himself compromised.