RollOnFriday can exclusively reveal that Deirdre Dare, the legal profession's favourite smutty novelist and dodgy poet, is suing Allen & Overy for £3.5million.
Dare was a senior associate at A&O's Moscow office until the firm took exception to her posting a dirty novel, bad poetry and pictures of her wearing not very much on the web. Readers with strong stomachs can check it out here.
A&O fired Dare after she refused to take the site down. Despite bagging both her fifteen minutes of fame and a column on the Moscow News as a result, Dare announced that she would go after A&O. And indeed she has: this week she filed an employment tribunal claim for £3.5million against the firm. Which at least has got her some more publicity...
*original term replaced by RollOnFriday for reasons of decency.