Clifford Chance Lawyers Warned About Running the Meter
Lawyers and staffers at Clifford Chance were warned yesterday that they need to be more careful about running the meter.
No, not the billable hours meter. The taxi meter. Seems that at least a few may have kept cabs waiting curbside at the firm’s London office for significant periods of time. That has helped to run up taxi costs that the firm’s London managing partner called excessive in an office-wide e-mail yesterday, according to the Lawyer.
“In the light of the difficult economic climate, of which you are all aware, we are reviewing our expenditure on taxis in the London office, as this has risen to unacceptable levels,” writes Jeremy Sandelson in the e-mail.
Under firm policy, those working at the office after 9 p.m. during the winter and 10 p.m. during the summer, may take a taxi home. Cab fares are not supposed to exceed 60 pounds (about $119 in U.S. dollars).
