Sydney Court Finds Aus Lawyers Guilty Of Conspiracy To Steal Clients & Millions Of $’s

Legal Week (UK) has this particularly tasty story about 3 Aus lawyers who obviously got a little greedy


LW (UK) reports

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A trio of Australian expatriate lawyers working at their own firm in Kazakhstan has been found guilty by a Sydney court of conspiring to steal clients and millions of dollars in fees from another expat-led firm at which they once worked, writes The Am Law Daily.

The Australians – John Forster Emmott, a former partner of legacy UK firm Richards Butler; Robert Nicholls, an ex-partner at leading Australian firm Freehills; and David Slater, a former in-house lawyer at Australian bank Westpac – reportedly lured oil and gas clients from the Almaty-based firm Michael Wilson & Partners (MWP).

Full story at? http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1558368/aussie-lawyer-trio-guilty-stealing-clients-millions-fees