Reply #4: If YOU want to credible, don't be blind to Toyota's bad history.

[TexasObserver]

Toyota has a history of being deceitful when dealing with consumers, government regulators, and judges - according to their former lawyer. It's unwise to trust them about anything.

Ex-Toyota Lawyer Sues Automaker

Lawsuits brought by unhappy former employees are never welcome. But when a lawsuit is brought by a former in-house lawyer, it's likely to be much messier.
And when he accuses his former company's current and past general counsel of willfully ignoring him when he told them that the company was concealing and destroying evidence it was required to turn over to plaintiffs in lawsuits -- well, it doesn't get much uglier than that.
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Biller filed his complaint in federal court in Los Angeles in late July, but it's only just been publicized. In it, he describes four tumultuous years at Toyota -- 2003 to 2007 -- where he was national managing counsel in charge of defending litigation brought in rollover accidents involving the popular 4Runner sports utility vehicle. "Key Toyota executives," he alleges, "have conspired, and continue to conspire, to unlawfully withhold evidence from plaintiffs and obstruct justice in lawsuits throughout the United States."
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Biller's allegations go way beyond the circumstances of his dismissal from the company. He accuses Toyota of obstructing justice and violating civil racketeering laws. The lawyer asks that the company be enjoined from enforcing the confidentiality clause that was part of his 2007 severance agreement, and that it pay damages for allegedly harassing him and forcing him to resign.

Biller's disagreements with Toyota first began, his complaint says, when plaintiffs' electronic discovery demands began ramping up in 2004. He warned his superiors that the company was not being forthcoming. His warnings, he says, were ignored. Nevertheless, he continued to complain about discovery violations, initiating three separate meetings with then-GC Ogilvie in late 2006 and 2007. For his efforts, his complaint says, he received a poor work evaluation.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433517521

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