An ex-Covington & Burling attorney has acknowledged her role in leaking information about the sexual harassment probe into former CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves.
Allison Diercks, who resigned from Covington after the firm suspended her, told the New York Times she doesn’t regret leaking despite the “staggering amounts of suffering” it has caused. She acknowledged she broke attorney-client privilege.
“What I did was wrong,” Diercks said in a Times podcast. “It was against the rules. There was no nuance to it. There’s no way around the bare fact that I violated a sacrosanct, bedrock principle of the profession ...
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