You are once again the General Counsel for Tom Cruise Delivery Company ("TCDC"). The California Attorney General has issued multiple subpoenas for TCDC records and files over the past several months. The AG's office finally contacts you and Tom Cruise to formally notify the two of you, just as happened in the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad case, TCDC and its corporate executives (including you and Tom Cruise) will be criminally charged with cutting its prices. You and Tom Cruise know with 100% certainty that the charges are bogus, but it will also take several years and millions of dollars of TCDC's money to fight the charges (not to mention divert attention away from running the business). At the same time, the AG's office offers a plea deal, for TCDC to plead guilty and pay a fine - no executives will be indicted. Questions Presented Why might TCDC seriously consider the AG's plea deal and agree to pay a large fine rather than to be indicted and proceed to trial? As TCDC's General Counsel, how would you determine the optimal amount of legal research to undertake to prevent TCDC from violating the many thousands of federal and state (not to mention local) regulations