Freshfields’ M&S saga: O’Brien admits conflict and accepts fine
Barry O’Brien’s fate as the sole Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner shouldering the blame for a 2004 conflict of interest was sealed as early as January. At O’Brien’s disciplinary hearing last week (2 August), his counsel Mark Howard QC of Brick Court Chambers told the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) that O’Brien had not had a “Damascene […]