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How And Why Did It Go So Wrong?: Theranos As A Legal Ethics Case Study, G.S. Hans Mar 2021

How And Why Did It Go So Wrong?: Theranos As A Legal Ethics Case Study, G.S. Hans

Georgia State University Law Review

The Theranos saga encompasses many discrete areas of law. Reporting on Theranos, most notably John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, highlights the questionable ethical decisions that many of the attorneys involved made. The lessons attorneys and law students can learn from Bad Blood are highly complex. The Theranos story touches on multiple areas of professional responsibility, including competence, diligence, candor, conflicts, and liability. Thus, Theranos serves as a helpful tool to explore the limits of ethical lawyering for Professional Responsibility students.

This Article discusses the author’s experience with using Bad Blood as an extended case study in a new course on Legal …