Google Exec Clouded by Scandal a Veteran Silicon Valley Counsel

David Drummond, the chief legal officer of Google parent Alphabet Inc. and a one-time Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner, had an extramarital affair and fathered a child with a subordinate who was later asked to leave her post, the New York Times reported.

Drummond was among a handful of senior executives cited in the report, which indicated that Google has taken a lax approach to relationships between supervisors and their subordinates, to the detriment of the lower level employees.

Asked to comment on the Times report by Bloomberg Law, Google provided a copy of an email sent to employees ...