Nori Southern CEO fired for consensual relationship with railroads Chief legal officer norick Southern CEO Allen Shaw was fired for cause by the railroads board for engaging in a consensual relationship with the company's Chief legal officer who was also terminated the railroad announced Wednesday evening a statement from the company on Wednesday said that sha had been dismissed for cause which could prevent him from collecting the kind of exit package that CEOs often receive when shown the door the company originally disclosed that sha was the subject of an investigation on Sunday sha had been CEO of one of the nation's four largest freight railroads for just over two years but it had been a turbulent tenure that included contentious