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CALL FOR GOSSIP – Involuntary Annual Leave, Xmas Parties & Clayton Utz Sex Dolls

8 December 2010

A major issue for many of our readers at this time last year was an obligation to take valuable annual leave in the Christmas/New Year period. Miserly corporate partners, hiding beneath the veneer ...

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Fox Tale; Charting Ex-DLA Phillips Fox Lawyer James Gorman’s Rise to the Top

17 September 2009

A regular target for the Firm Spy's opprobrium is the apparently soon to be formally internationally merged national law firm DLA Phillips Fox. But even we must take pause to acknowledge the aw...

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Compensation Hotline; Shine Lawyers Set to Announce Acquisition of ALC Lawyers

9 November 2010

[UPDATE - this rumour has since been denied by  Shine Lawyers through our friends at Lawyers Weekly. We would ask the same spokesperson from Shine Lawyers and and the journo from Lawyers Weekly to...

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“Neil Down”; PWC Staff Irked By Indian OffShoring

10 December 2009

This comical, insightful goss from an anonymous PWC spy earlier today: "Neil" down or get taken down. Seems the good news machine at PWC continues spreading propoganda with last week a new entry to the calendar - an internal firm services town hall. these are the poor IT and Operations schleps who are at the beck and call of partners and the oddly named Chief Costs Officer "Neil" Wilson. In an effort to encourage morale Neils summonsed all 500 staff to a dark 3 star hotel ballroom for a 2 hour workshop; what staff were faced with was news that decisions on job offshoring to India would be made before christmas, some bad jokes and attempts at reaching the people and in what one person said was insulting a reference to the fact that even broom sweepers at NASA were as respected as a P...

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How Much Do Mallesons Partners Earn? AFR Law Firm Profit Survey

22 September 2009

Thanks to the AFR for the following profile: Partner Remuneration System Lock-step, virtually full equity partnership Partner Pay For 2008/09 Most of its equity partners earned $1,400,00...

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Rumour: Deloitte Considers Purchase of BDO QLD/WA as BDO Legal Action Commenced

13 April 2011

Continuing with the theme over the last few weeks, we today publish yet another set of rumours emanating out of embattled mid-tier accounting firm BDO. First this, from an anonymous BDO spy: Given...

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Corrs HR Manager Alexis Navie, Retention & the Dodgey MoS Cafe EoFY Party

27 July 2010

Corrs Chambers Wesgarth HR manager Alexis Navie has made a bit of a habit of using media to broadcast her peculiar views on a variety of matters over the years. For example, despite having no ap...

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Allens Arthur Robinson Cancels Christmas (Party)

14 November 2008

Against the backdrop a worrying global financial climate, the Allens partnership has made a curious firm response: to cancel the Christmas party. Dresses in the closet. Tinsel in the cupboard. ...

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Freehills Partner Gavin ‘Hells’ Bell Queries Rise in Masters Applications

3 September 2009

In a terrific article by ALB profiling reasons for and against bolstering education through a postgraduate Masters course, Freehills CEO Gavin Bell said: "We have seen a slight increase in the num...

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50% Turnover Year on Year: KPMG Transaction Services Team Labelled “A Joke”

15 November 2011

It makes you wonder. If the ground is falling out from under a particular team and staff within that team are watching their utilisation plummet, there's no real business case to replace staffers w...

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