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EXCLUSIVE: Oh HEIL! Arnold Bloch Leibler Ceases to Act For Company Spruiking Neo-Nazi Propaganda
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AARpocalypse Now; Michael Robinson Removed From Allens Website
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28,000 Law Students & Growing: We Ask The Council of Law Deans Whether Australia is Over-Lawyered
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BDO Gossip Roundup: Mergers, Secret Side Deals and Private Investigators
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UPDATE: Reflections on the "Hipster Hitler" Saga: Lawyers, Censorship and Professional Ethics
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Featured Stories
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CRACKED OUT! Ballarat Lawyer Zoe Gilder Boozed & On Meth When Car Crash Occurred
07 February 2012 2:32 PM | 4 Comments
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Marry Me Herbert! Freehills CEP Gavin Bell Confirms Herbies Merger Talks in Leaked Email
07 February 2012 11:45 AM | 1 Comment
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Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Garrett Williams Enters CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2012
06 February 2012 6:15 AM | 12 Comments
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FINAL CLEARANCE: 50% Off Mallesons Merchandise – Hurray (Sic) Stock Won’t Last!
02 February 2012 7:41 AM | 14 Comments
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“Dirty Little Promotion”: Swaab “Attorneys” Involved in “Legitimate” & Legal Competition
01 February 2012 6:40 AM | 9 Comments
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Grad Gossip
A&O Code Red; Freehills Partners Call For Changes to Equity Distributions
17 February 2011At close of business 2010, if you had asked a legal industry commentator to name the best, most prestigious Australian law firm, chances are they would have said eaither Freehills or Mallesons. The...
Read moreA Very Unhealthy 18%; Blake Dawson ‘F*ck-Us’ Exposed
14 October 2009Some dynamite just in from a Blake Dawson spy! Last month we reported a controversial post profiling the Blake Dawson pay-rise-pay-freeze. By 'controversial', we mean that it compelled a Blakes lawyer to rebuke us! We love getting feedback; comments like this from the Blake Dawson lawyer cause us to reflect on the content of our stories. Were we wrong to argue that Blake Dawson remuneration 'focus' was more about remuneration 'f*ck-us'? We will let you be the judge after reading the following information received from an anonymous Blake Dawson spy: Blake Dawson pay freeze - you have reported on this already, and Blakes came back with figures of 30% received rises - this INCLUDES those lawyers elevated from graduate to lawyer and lawyer to SA. However, it has now come to my at...
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Brisbanian Departure Ouch Amid Grant Thornton 2008 Merger Insight
6 April 2011On Monday we welcomed our first ever gossip from mid-tier accounting firm Grant Thornton with allegations that an external auditor recently found evidence of number-fudging in the firm's books.. We...
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‘Hostile Approach to Technology’; Minter Ellison Lawyer Fury
25 November 2009We found the following comments penned by an anonymous Minter Ellison spy in the Lawyer Remuneration Survey to be so comical that we decided to dedicate an entire post to it. A tirade of the very h...
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PwC Penny-Pinching; No Quarter Given to Generous Staff
2 July 2009Thanks to the PwC spy who gave us the following audacious assessment of the firm: I work at PwC in a leadership position ... PwC's Internal I.T. department BS Technology (not to be mistaken for Bu...
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“Idea Lifecycle”; KPMG Brain Explosion Brings Alumni “Evolution”
5 October 2010One of the fundamental ideals underpinning Firm Spy - which gives us motivation to continue burning the midnight oil while you all sleep - is an unyielding aim to expose and hopefully one day eradi...
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Mallefuns Gives Free Leave While Allens Arthur is Robbing Staff Holidays
15 December 2009We received a few replies to our call yesterday for news on the way firms are handling the Christmas shut-down. In essence, we were hoping to find out if any firms were using the opportunity - a tr...
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Flashed in the Pan; Clayton Utz Settles With Michael “Trench” Mitchell
14 December 2010The Michael "Trench" Mitchell v Clayton Utz legal controversy has both captivated and shocked legal observers alike since it emerged in mid 2009. The saga gave a unvarnished insight into the cultur...
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PwC Spy Unleashes Fury at “Greedy” Partnership Indian Offshoring
10 May 2010Following on from our recent stories profiling the attrition rate at Big4 accounting firms came these comments from an anonymous PWC spy over the weekend: As a PwC audit employee, I can vouch for ...
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2011 Graduate Intake: Top 30 Australian Law Firms By Revenue & Clerk to Grad Progression
13 December 2011In 2009 we published a highly popular report in which we calculated the probability of a vacation clerk progressing to a graduate position at a selected number of firms. There is a bit of a theory ...
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