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Law Firm Learned of Planned ‘Raid’ After MP Left Docs on Copier, Filing Says

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By Martha Neil

Oops. If you're a law firm managing partner trying to secretly shop some of your colleagues to a competing law firm, it's best not to leave documents from a PowerPoint presentation intended for the prospective new firm's management committee on your current firm's office copier.

But that's what allegedly alerted an equity partner at Taylor Wessig's 55-lawyer French subsidiary to managing partner Arnaud de Senilhes's claimed plan to lead a group of non-equity partners to New York-based Nixon Peabody, reports the AmLaw Daily.

On Monday, a New York court in Monroe County will hear competing motions for summary judgment in litigation subsequently filed over what the French firm has characterized as a "raid" by Nixon, in claimed violation of an anti-poaching agreement entered into between the two firms in conjunction with merger talks.

Among filings made Friday in anticipation of the hearing was… Continue reading...

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