Remember that name, we thought we’d never hear it again? but no such luck . Ms Dare is back? trying to sue former employers and (excuse our Daily Mail language) write another steamy novel
Above the law have spent plenty of time researching this so we’ll leave it to them – although we must admit to not reading the whole article so you’ll have to click at the link below if you want to read all the gossip
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http://abovethelaw.com/2011/06/deidre-dare-wants-for-her-sexy-little-adventure-story/
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For those of you who have missed Deidre Dare, the expat lawyer who was terminated from the Moscow office of Allen & Overy after writing a smutty steamy online novel, give thanks. She?s baaaaaack.
Deidre ?To Russia With Donkey and Dwarf Love? Dare is struggling with the cash flow these days. The Columbia Law grad?s London lawsuit against Magic Circle firm A&O for unfair termination in its Russia office was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, so she filed a new complaint in New York. As you might expect from an amateur sex novelist, the complaint is rather juicy. Dare (a.k.a. Deidre Clark), who was a senior attorney in A&O?s London, Singapore and Moscow offices from 2007 to 2009, claims that she was terminated after giving into ? and later spurning ? her supervising partner?s sexual advances. (Excerpt: ?[Tony] Humphrey made sexual advances on Clark, who was intoxicated at the time. This conduct included intimate sexual contact. Humphrey kept saying ?I love sex.?)
Dare is upping the ante on the lawsuit. In London, she sued for ?3.5m, but in her Big Apple lawsuit, she?s hoping to take a bigger bite out of A&O: namely, $35 million in punitive and compensatory damages.
?I think NY will take jurisdiction,? Dare, a member of the New York Bar, told us by email. ?And thank god for that.?
In the meantime, Dare is working on another project that is, er, rather racy?.
She?s trying to raise funds for her smutty sexy novel: she?s seeking $25,000 to publish Expat, which is based on a BP scandal that went down in Moscow during her time there.? In a video plea for help, she says, ?I?ve exhausted my resources fighting my former employer.? We were on an email that went out to dozens of people, including partners and associates at her old firm, Skadden, Goodwin Procter, Clifford Chance, McGuire Woods, and Bingham (she neglected to use the good ole bcc). How close is she to her goal?
