A lawyer can find a legal issue in pretty much anything you intend to do. I've seen teams getting railroaded by this. It usually starts with someone higher up w

A lawyer can find a legal issue in pretty much anything you intend to do. I've seen teams getting railroaded by this. It usually starts with someone higher up wanting some legal advice and the lawyer seizes the opportunity and scares the hell out of execs. Sometime company had been burned by lawsuit already so they double down on even a remotely possible legal threats. Suddenly everything is required to go through the legal team who let you know that all your possible actions might cause getting sued. Before you know company needs a large legal team to review and craft complicated stupid agreements even with janitors. The fact is that there are fairly easy workarounds for this kind of legal threats. The "I Agree" is quite powerful button. Most consumer protection legal threats are actually fairly difficult to execute - thanks to severely weakened consumer protection laws in most states. Even if they do get executed in few rare cases or even become class action, settlements are fairly easy to achieve with often tiny impact on balance sheets. I understand that risks in automotive industry is higher when safety is compromised that case cause billions of dollars in recall in extreme cases (for example, Toyota and Firestone cases) but this is like wearing bullet proof vest all the time because you fear you will get in to some physco's shooting spree. These lawyer driven companies don't get wake up call until competition starts doing all these supposidly legally risky things and grabs all market share. Companies that win usually are fire firstt, ask forgiveness later kind. This is also the reason why enterprisy companies like Ford will never come out first with self driving car even if they had tech.