rein in the lawyers

I'm getting the distinct impression that the law arms of big firms have with the sales and marketing groups. I posted awhile back on this headache that Sun's lawyers were giving Ted Neward; now I read where MS' lawyers have been hassling MacSlash. In Ted's case, the marketing folks were properly horrified once they found out, and it looks like Scoble caught wind of MS' lawyer mess.

This points to a fundamental problem in the field though - legal departments are off chasing trademark, copyright (etc) problems down without regards to business issues. In the process, they are giving black eyes to their firms. Sounds to me like it's time for the marketing departments to start exercising oversight...