BLM was compelled to rifle through its rubbish after an employee was accused of dumping critical documents in the bin before she left.
The staffer, who until recently worked in the firm's Southampton office, failed her three month probation period. A source told RollOnFriday that on her last day she fed "all her court proceedings into the confidential waste bin including signed defences". And, they claimed, she pinched a copy of the office's client database, the "client matrix", on her way out.
However a spokeswoman for the firm told RollOnFriday that nothing important was shredded or nicked. She said that after a colleague "raised concerns regarding court papers being thrown into our confidential waste", the firm "checked those papers to be sure and found that everything placed within the confidential waste at the time of her departure included surplus drafts and copies, which were perfectly appropriate for the confidential waste". She said, "There was absolutely no risk to any of our case work”.
She said the firm also found "no proof that any documents left the firm". And that will only change when the sacked staffer begins tempting clients away like a cut-price Jerry Maguire. In the meantime, at least people noticed when she left, unlike the Managing Partner.
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The staffer, who until recently worked in the firm's Southampton office, failed her three month probation period. A source told RollOnFriday that on her last day she fed "all her court proceedings into the confidential waste bin including signed defences". And, they claimed, she pinched a copy of the office's client database, the "client matrix", on her way out.
And her leaving speech had a lot more 'feck you you fecking feckers' than they usually do. |
However a spokeswoman for the firm told RollOnFriday that nothing important was shredded or nicked. She said that after a colleague "raised concerns regarding court papers being thrown into our confidential waste", the firm "checked those papers to be sure and found that everything placed within the confidential waste at the time of her departure included surplus drafts and copies, which were perfectly appropriate for the confidential waste". She said, "There was absolutely no risk to any of our case work”.
She said the firm also found "no proof that any documents left the firm". And that will only change when the sacked staffer begins tempting clients away like a cut-price Jerry Maguire. In the meantime, at least people noticed when she left, unlike the Managing Partner.
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There was a Partner in the Manchester office who thought that scanning documents onto the CMS was against the Data Protection Act.
There was also an incident when someone on their probation period took a file home to work on during the weekend (as the litigated files she inherited had just been collecting dust for over a month).
When she mentioned it during a probationary review the Partners decided there had been a security breach, told the client and it triggered an audit.
No good deed goes unpunished there.
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What do you expect?!! You have only got yourselves to blame BLM. Not bashing but just honest reporting and exposing a firm who are treating staff badly and causing havoc.
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ROF, do another story on Monday about the Southampton redundancies - these comments are often the only place current employees can discuss what's going on. As a current employee I do wonder if we're circling the drain.
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How can you say it's gone from strength to strength when Blm have lost countless clients Mod nhsla ageas to name a few. The have announced two batches of redundancies in the space of a few months, Gary Allison has left *huge warning* 9 partners left Southampton office last year( and the rival firm and still poaching) and all you can rely on is 21% increase on PEP? Are you accounting for year 2015-16 when it plummeted by 28%? So in actual fact your 21% increase doesn't sound that great? Pep is for Eps so well done them but what about the rest of the salaries partners, solicitors, fee earners and support staff? they are the ones breaking their backs whilst it's the EP losing contracts and now the ones that work the hardest have lost their jobs!! Ie the 26 people in Southampton which you have just denied happening! I'm gob smacked.
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Do you have any other stupefying non-news of this nature to share?
Reminds me of a local newspaper headline I once saw: "Man escapes injury"
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Don't worry we are all getting ready to go elsewhere but in the meantime we will just turn up and get paid as we can't be bothered to do any work. Time we took the **ss now.
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