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Kimmitt email ‘off the planet’, says legal doyen

Mark Leibler is the first law firm boss to go on the record with thoughts on the MinterEllison imbroglio that has become the talk of the legal and business community.

Michael Pelly

Legal industry doyen Mark Leibler has described the email that led to Annette Kimmitt’s departure from MinterEllison CEO as “totally off the planet and incomprehensible”.

Mr Leibler, the senior partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler and a confidant of politicians and business leaders for 50 years, said the way Ms Kimmitt reacted to news the firm was acting for Attorney-General Christian Porter was “completely misplaced”.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor

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