Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 497

Langford Medical's compliance meeting dragged on until three in the afternoon.

The air conditioning in the conference room was blasting, and despite the bright sunlight outside the windows, not a single person at the long table looked relaxed.

Once the Family Companion Project had halted all new in-home services, the project team had been the first to panic.

In the past, they had paraded the prestigious Langford Medical name around, negotiating authorizations with families, securing data interfaces with hospitals, and spinning PR to the media with perfectly rehearsed pitches. Now that Thorne Medical Systems' oversight team had officially hit the brakes, all those polished pitches had dissolved into glaring liabilities.

Why were there unauthorized family videos sitting in the promotional database?

Why weren't complaints escalated immediately?

How had Willow bypassed the project team's approval to directly access the PR guidelines?

Every single question demanded a signature.

And someone to take the fall.

The project manager finished reporting the compliance progress, a fine layer of sweat forming on his forehead.

"Mr. Langford, we're currently drafting the new authorization forms for our existing families. We expect to hand them over to legal for preliminary review by the end of the day."

Lawrence flipped a page in his folder.

"How many days have you been drafting them?"

The manager's voice dropped.

"Two days."

"Is that just for the re-authorization form, or the entire project's informed consent protocol?"

A heavy silence hung over the conference room.

The head of legal stepped in. "Mr. Langford, we recommend completely overhauling the informed consent, opt-out mechanisms, and secondary use restrictions. The previous iteration was frankly too vague."

Too vague.

The words were spoken lightly.

Lawrence looked up, his predatory gaze locking onto them.

"Who approved it in the first place?"

Nobody answered.

This kind of silence was a familiar staple within Langford Medical. When a project was advancing, everyone wanted a piece of the credit. The second things went south, it all devolved into a game of pointing at standard procedures.

Lawrence slammed the folder shut.

"By the end of today, I want every version of the authorization forms, promotional material access logs, and complaint resolution records pulled up. Do not make me ask twice."

The executives scrambled to nod their agreement.

His phone buzzed on the table.

Lawrence glanced down, seeing a direct message from his lead counsel.