In an attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it last month in New York state court by a recruiter who claims he played a role in placing a Hong Kong litigator at the firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell argues that the recruiter did nothing to aid the hire and does not deserve a $1.4 million commission.
The recruiter, New York-based Alan Metz, claims in his suit that six months after Davis Polk's Hong Kong office head, William Barron, rebuffed his call suggesting that he speak to "the head of the largest and highest quality litigation practice in Hong Kong," the lawyer about whom Metz was calling, Martin Rogers, moved to Davis Polk from Clifford Chance along with 17 other lawyers. Metz concedes that athough he never named Rogers in either his phone call or a subsequent email to Barron, "it was obvious" who he had in mind because of what he refers to as Hong Kong's "close-knit" legal community.
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