Bloomberg Law
July 31, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: Baker McKenzie Faces U.K. Sex Misconduct Prosecution

  • A former Baker McKenzie leader in London allegedly tried to corner and kiss a junior female colleague he had authority over. He then tried to stymie the firm’s investigation into the 2012 incident, according to a filing by the U.K.'s Solicitors Regulation Authority. The filing said the authority decided to prosecute professional misconduct allegations against Baker McKenzie’s former European and Middle East operations chief, Gary Senior, who left the firm last year, after 34 years.

  • Baker McKenzie also faces charges that another ex-partner and its former head of human resources let Senior “improperly to influence” an internal investigation into the ...

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