“In my experience, dumb people have a knee jerk response and say, “you can’t do that.” Smart people say, “here’s how you can do that and be in compliance.””
absolutely! when i worked for medium-sized scientific research GOCO, there was a contracts specialist we all loved to work with, because no matter how far out or off-the-beaten-path some of our multi-organization agreements or contracts were, this contracts specialist would work with us to find ways to make things work ... he was the very opposite of the stereotypical bad lawyer who does nothing but tell you “no” about everything you wanted to do, and then offers no alternatives ...
Excellent employee. I also had a compliance person I trained to work together to accomplish our mission.