Pro Tip For CEOs: Don’t Romance Your General Counsel
Or really any employee — especially if you’re already married to someone else.
Maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.
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It’s October 3rd, so you know what that means. We’re gonna talk about true love today! Haha, kidding. We’re gonna talk about infidelity. Or, more specifically, what happens when a very married CEO starts playing footsie with the chief legal officer. The long and the short of it is that they both get fired, as is the case with Alan Shaw, the former CEO of Norfolk Southern — we all know that railroad — and Nabanita Nag, the company’s ex-legal chief. The ax fell after an internal investigation found the pair’s consensual romance violated company policy.