Although it agreed there was “sufficient evidence” that a senior associate at global law firm Allens sexually harassed a second-year lawyer, the Legal Services Commission will not pursue discipli
No way this will come back to haunt us.
A senior associate at Allens, the Australian firm in a global alliance with Linklaters, has outed himself as having sexually harassed a colleague. She has expressed outrage that he is now being considered for promotion.
Fiona Thatcher was a junior lawyer in Timothy Leschke s infrastructure projects team when, she said, late on Friday night in July 2015 he sent her a string of texts aggressively demanding sex.
Leschke, who was an associate, then appeared at her apartment complex and rang her security buzzer for 15 minutes, reported the Australia Financial Review, and sent her a similarly demanding text the following morning.