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Gibson Dunn employee charged with stealing £38k from her firm
11 January 2013
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An employee at the London office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has been charged with stealing over £38,000 from the US firm.

Marion Carrington is accused of obtaining the money by submitting fake overtime claims and falsified petty cash receipts over a whopping six year period. She stands accused of bagging £10,754 in unearned overtime between 2004 and 2007, The Lawyer reports, and she is alleged to have upped her game considerably over the next three years by submitting phony timesheets totalling £22,911 between 2007 and 2010.

 
  An employee faking overtime last night

Carrington also faces two charges of committing fraud by false representation for allegedly stealing £5,404 of petty cash. She made bail and will appear at the Old Bailey on February 14th. Gibson Dunn - presumably busy tightening up their overtime claiming procedures - did not respond to RollOnFriday's request for comment.
 

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anonymous user
11/01/2013 02:09
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It seems Gibson Dunn have a problem in their accounts department in London!

From The Lawyer (10 December 2012):
Dionne Paull, who worked at the firm’s City office for almost three years as an accounts manager, is claiming sex discrimination and unfair dismissal against the firm. She is claiming for damages for injury to feelings, loss of earnings and for injury to health.
[http://www.thelawyer.com/gibson-dunn-faces-sex-discrimination-claim-from-former-employee/1015945.article]
anonymous user
11/01/2013 10:23
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I wonder whether they focus the same attention on whether their lawyers pad their time. Defrauding clients is a more heinous crime, but seems quite accepted in some US firms (FAOD, not making any such claims against Gibson Dunn - my experience is based mostly on a report I read of Bendini, Lambert & Locke).
anonymous user
21/01/2013 18:16
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I thought law firms had their accounts audited on an annual basis? The alleged fraudulent overtime claims are from years ago!
anonymous user
19/02/2013 12:51
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Hmmm if they cant manage their own accounts, how safe is the clients money?

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