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09 December 2016 / Frank Maher
Issue: 7726 / Categories: Features , Profession
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A rogue in your midst (Pt 2)

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In a second in a series of articles, Frank Maher advises upon how to discover rogue partners & employees

This is the second of three articles on practical problems caused by rogue partners and employees, and looks at how you might discover them.

First however, there is an interesting postscript to the first article, which looked at types of rogue behaviour (see “A rogue in your midst (Pt 1)”, NLJ , 28 October 2016, p 21). Readers will recall that many of these are far removed from the cases of theft from client or office account: they may encompass many types of misbehaviour where someone puts the firm at risk by failing to comply with the systems and controls which have been put in place to protect it.

Minor to major

We finished by looking at the American case of John Gellene, and Professor Mitt Regan’s conclusion that Gellene was prone to engaging in petty transgressions which, as his moral compass began to lose direction, led incrementally to more serious breaches. Each small step took him closer to his final

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