Linklaters: Associate-Verschwörung?
am 10.05.2007 von http://www.jurabilis.de
Linklaters has fired three associates from its Portugal office after discovering their plans to leave the firm and set up the Lisbon office of a major competitor.
The document, called Project Iberia, was found saved on the desktop of one of Linklaters laptops, and detailed how the associates would leave the firm to launch a new office with a major international firm.
[...] Bleck said the associates were given 24 hours to …
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