CITY DIARY: Slater & Gordon sacks amorous senior lawyer and paralegal
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoLove shack: Slater & Gordon’s London officeStruggling City lawyers Slater & Gordon, which recently reported a 27 per cent drop in turnover, has sacked one of its senior solicitors as well as his paralegal after they were repeatedly discovered in flagrante delicto in the firm’s Chancery Lane offices. A horrified junior staffer was said to have interrupted the couple’s amorous activities last month before reporting them to human resources. An S&G galley slave sighs: ‘Once more it appears the bosses have been fiddling while Rome burns.’This just in: Sports Direct porker Mike Ashley’s favourite food is a banana sandwich.
I’m advised he brusquely demolished five of them on the day he signed the House of Fraser deal. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Apropos the storm over Saudi Arabia, wowgoldone.com ex-Downing Street blunderbuss Steve Hilton sternly informs Twitter: ‘Remember that you are supporting this revolting regime every time you use Uber.’ The Saudis are of course big investors in Uber.
Strange how that never bothered him when his wife Rachel Whetstone was the firm’s handsomely paid head of communications.Cigar-chomping Habitat founder Sir Terence Conran says of his second wife, saucy novelist Shirley: ‘If I had my time over again, I wouldn’t have married her.
It was not a happy part of my life.’ Sir Terence is now 87, Shirley 86. As chin-stroking philosophers often ponder: Cui Bono? Grant Thornton’s departing boss Sacha Romanovitch will doubtless be glad to have more time with her family. Flame-haired mother-of-two Sacha, 50, placed an automated reply on her emails during the summer which read: ‘I’m off with my family right now, back on 23 July.
I’ll be reading, diving and playing with my boys while they still want to play with me!’ BBC business journalist Katie Hope’s tart reaction to the response: ‘Frankly, it seems a bit smug.’Fred Goodwin’s boardroom table from when he was head of Clydesdale Bank is being auctioned for charity for £4,000. At RBS, Fred commissioned a vast, triangular table for the boardroom with a carpeted space in the middle featuring the company logo. Dainty Fred would instruct RBS’s cleaners not to vacuum ‘against the weave’ so as to avoid leaving track marks.
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