It is not a trap and it is not, in itself, improper.

Companies routinely offer to provide counsel to employee witnesses and there is nothing wrong with it, and in most cases the interests are genuinely aligned and the employee gets a very good lawyer for free.

But that lawyer’s client is a lawyer paid by the company, and the company’s interest and mine were not the same, and I knew they were not the same, because I had knelt on a carpet in Cleveland.

I took the work order out of my wallet.