Just for fun, let’s imagine that the U.K.’s departing prime minister, Boris Johnson, was a law firm leader.
A fellow partner is accused of bullying. He ignores it. A fellow partner breaks COVID rules. He ignores it. Amid a firmwide diversity push, he utters racial and homophobic epithets with impunity. He pushes for higher salaries…for partners. He attends partners-only lockdown parties, but tells his employees they never happened, despite an outside firm concluding otherwise. He tries to change the firm’s LLP agreement to exonerate a fellow partner who broke firm rules. And then again to save his own skin. He pushes a third party to hand him a six-figure sum so he can pimp out his corner office.
