A video clip of a Biglaw partner’s indiscretions with a colleague have gone viral. An unnamed Allen & Overy partner was caught on camera through the large glass windows of the firm’s London office in an amorous embrace — which the firm is characterizing as “inappropriate workplace conduct.” Which… points for the understatement.
The video has been making the rounds on WhatsApp, and Jamie Hamilton at RollOnFriday details the footage — which was reportedly filmed months ago by a pedestrian walking through Spitalfields Market by the A&O office:
The camera zooms in to show a younger woman embracing the older, white-haired partner, who, in broad daylight, in a glass-fronted office, which opens onto a London market, proceeds to merrily move through the bases while rubbing against her.
“Oh. My. God”, remarks the cameraman, who spared audiences the worst of it by slapping a Parental Advisory sticker over the cursed footage before releasing it online. “Watch his hands, look at his hands”, mutters his companion.
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The clip sports a joking parental advisory label and the caption :
UGHHH! SOMEONE IS STAYING LATE AT THE OFFICE ???? ???? ????
Now that unnamed partner is out of a job, as RollOn Friday says, he was “permitted to resign”:
But the cost has been high for the partner, who was not supposed to be in the office at the time, and was definitely not supposed to be in the office breaching social distancing guidelines by fumbling at a youngster, and was absolutely not meant to do it all on Instagram.
Once news of his indiscretion reached the wider partnership, he was permitted to resign.
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A spokesperson for Allen & Overy provided the following comment about the incident:
“The video depicts inappropriate workplace conduct which is not in line with our Code of Conduct. The matter has been investigated and addressed in line with the firm’s internal processes.”
Hopefully the lawyer will learn what is and is not acceptable at work… and that you can, in fact, see through glass.
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