Premium: Lawyers should be put in State Capture dock – starting with Baker McKenzie

The money, and all the firm's fees, should be surrendered to the authorities, along with a "client privileged" Baker McKenzie report on Bain's involvement at SARS.

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17 Feb 2022, 9:18 am

Sometimes I wish that by some miracle, every member of our tribe decided to consume a particular piece of our content. Because sometimes what it contains is so shocking that were knowledge universal, outrage would force the implicated parties to atone.

This is sometimes. And the content I'm referring to is an interview between my colleague Michael Appel and his guests Adv Erin Richards and whistleblower Athol Williams. It's now on the BizNews TV channel on Youtube. Click here to watch.

The interview exposes appalling behaviour by Baker and McKenzie, a brash, no-consequences global legal firm with a significant presence in South Africa with a website offering click throughs to 10 SA partners – Darryl Bernstein; Johan Botes; Janet MacKenzie; Lodewyk Meyer; Lerisha Naidu; Ashlin Perumall; Virusha Subban; Mike van Rensburg; Kieran White; and Marc Yudaken.

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