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African legal body defies the vultures

Is that the sound of cynical laughter I hear? Allen & Overy making a nice little earner suing the Zambian people....whatever next? I knew all this talk from A&O about being a 'nice' firm was just cheesey PR - but, wow, this really shows how cynical a firm can be - sending out press releases about pro bono and community projects, but attacking poor countries for the meanest of all businesses. Not as if A&O partners really needed to take on such a job to feed their kids - I mean, this was at the peak of 2007 when this case came to court - hardly a period when A&O was short of work - yet it seems they still jumped at this one. So much for corporate responsibility. Excellent to see what a former A&O lawyer is now doing to help African countries to address this imbalance.

30-Sep-2010

9:34 am