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Greg is an associate in a large law firm. Greg is asked to be part of the team that is defending a lawsuit by a group of parents and public health organizations against a liquor company. The lawsuit alleges that the company markets fruit-flavoured sugary alcohol drinks to youth in order to get them addicted to alcohol, and that this leads to binge drinking, alcohol poisoning and traffic accidents. Greg’s older sister died from mixing drugs and alcohol and his mother is an alcoholic. He does not drink and thinks that liquor companies cause great social harms. He knows that the liquor company plans to probe whether the parents abuse alcohol to show that the young people’s drinking problems are the parents’ fault and not the company’s. Does Greg have any options in responding to the partner’s request? What should he do and why?