Former Fulbright & Jaworski partner Graham Simkin has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of false accounting and fraud.

Simkin, who resigned from the U.S. firm’s London office in September 2008, and his wife Zakia Sharif, who was dismissed as an office manager by the firm in the same year, have admitted to stealing as much as £100,000 from the firm in false expenses claims. Sharif has also been sentenced to 16 months.

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