Is It OK For a Law Firm To Publicly Describe One Of Its Secretaries As ‘The Office Cougar’?

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By Legal Cheek on

The employee bios listed on the website of Liverpool law firm McKays are, like, totally hilarious. But it’s hard not to notice that the women get a rather rougher ride than the men.

While solicitors Adam McKay and Paul Richardson are gently ribbed for, respectively, being “famously blunt speaking” and wearing “snazzy jeans”, one female legal secretary is mocked for having “a thing for Irish men”, while – as you can see below – another is labelled “the office cougar”.