&gt; Mr. Balwani replied the next day, copying in Ms. Holmes. “I am extremely irritated and frustrated by folks with no legal background taking legal positions and interpretations on these matters,” he wrote. “This must stop.”<p>Wow. What a terrible response to get from company leadership. It should be completely appropriate for an employee to bring a concern to the attention of leadership based on a plain-English reading of a statute or regulation. Obviously, I don&#x27;t know what kind of email the person sent, but if it was something like, &quot;A plain English interpretation suggests that we are required to ... &quot; then the right response is to thank them for bringing it to attention, and then engage people for an appropriate review. Every time I&#x27;ve dealt with a legal situation in a corporate environment, the plain English reading was ballpark a correct way to understand it, with occasionally some detailed nuances for which it was important to have legal input, but which did not radically change the situation. I&#x27;ve never run into a case where the required action was opposite than it seemed, or anything like that, although I&#x27;m sure surprising things come up from time to time.<p>I understand why they might ask people to stop discussing it, on a big company email list or something like that, but bringing it to the attention of the appropriate company leader, is exactly the right thing to do. Thank them and look into it.