After the assault, my attorney, Adira Brenner, told me to report everything at once.

The police documented my injuries, photographed what was left of my hair, pulled the surveillance footage from the executive hallway, and interviewed the employees who had seen it.

Blair was arrested that evening on assault charges.

But Adira was already looking at a second front.

“Conrad didn’t swing the shears,” she said.

“But if company resources were used to enable any of this — the affair, the cover, the woman — then we are looking at serious corporate-governance violations.