Comments on: Fee earner barred after emailing himself client files before switching firms

By: Essex Bint

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:13:33 +0000

In reply to Pete.

I do not think it was to poach the client was it? He wanted templates and workflow documents, and the content he used would have been content he authored. It just saves time when you know the work you put into a well-drafted IPO or share agreement – stops you having to reinvent the wheel every time! However, all firms now check for this with their IT department, monitoring emails and using DLP software.

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By: Old codger

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:54:32 +0000

In reply to Fazzza.

A tale as old as time. 99.9% of all City lawyers will maintain a “secret” stash of all their semi-valuable templates and precedents for when they move shops.

Otherwise everyone would realise you know nothing and have spent a career of filling out forms.

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By: Cowboy

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 21:42:46 +0000

By: Legally ginge

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:54:11 +0000

By: Fazzza

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:59:35 +0000

I know lots of partners at top 20 law firms who have banks of templates stored on their current firm servers from the likes Squires and DLA Piper…(actually still says the name of the firm on the template). I keep that knowledge in my back pocket for when someone tries to get funny with me.

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By: Fee earner

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:32:56 +0000

By: Misc

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:06:23 +0000

He wasn’t a solicitor, in case anyone else also didn’t realise that: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/solicitor-check/526634/

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By: Rainman

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:10:39 +0000

By: Gambo

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:38:33 +0000

If he just did it to carry on using the firm’s templates rather than poaching clients, ending his career sounds very harsh to me – perhaps the contempt was the deciding factor…

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By: Barrington Stir

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:11:05 +0000

I hate the term “fee earner”.

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By: Pete

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:12:08 +0000

Years ago, you just notified the client you was moving on and they would see you at new firm and sign an authority. Was he that desperate for work he emailed private client information to his own account. I noticed now his new firm McDermott Smith went into administration with debts of £37m. Wow, truly stunning.

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By: Oh no

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:31:32 +0000

I think everyone who has ever moved firms will be crappimg themselves at this and keeping all the print outs they made before jumping ship under lock and key or investing in a shredder.

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