11 December 2020
Have it out on email, the firm can t touch you (in Turkey, don t try it anywhere else).
Turkey s highest court has ruled that the Turkish branch of the Baker McKenzie network violated two of its lawyers right to privacy when it looked through their work emails to justify firing them.
A male lawyer, ‘EU worked under a female partner, AY , along with three other lawyers in a five person team at Esin Attorney Partnership ( EAP ), the Turkish member of Bakers Swiss Verein.
After a quarrel in 2014, the other three lawyers complained to management about EU and AY. They claimed that EU was being rude and creating an unpleasant working environment, but that AY s relationship with EU had led AY, who was the team manager, to side with him in every incident.