Allen & Overy scored an unusual appellate win this week in its fight with a onetime lawyer at the firm who was fired after authoring an erotic novel, persuading a court in New York that the woman must submit to a psychological examination.
Deidre Clark—who, under the name Deidra Dare, wrote and self-published a serialized, steamy novel about an expatriate living in Russia—started pursuing wrongful firing and sexual harassment claims against Allen & Overy after she was let go in 2009. Prior to that, she had worked in the Magic Circle firm’s Moscow office as a senior attorney.
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