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“Drugged Up, Crazy Feral”: Rigby Cooke Law Grad Learns Valuable Twitter Lesson
22 February 2012 6:42 AM | 1 Comment
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Salvos Legal Update: CLE Series in March, Job Opportunity, New Office and Michael Kirby
21 February 2012 8:02 PM | 6 Comments
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Trade Mark FAIL! KingsWood Mallesons’ “The Power of The Scorpion” Advertising Campaign
20 February 2012 10:39 PM | 13 Comments
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BABEWATCH: (Minter Ellison?) Lawyer Laura Weston’s FHM Swimsuit Modelling History Exposed
17 February 2012 6:44 AM | 22 Comments
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GOLDEN NUGGET! DLA Piper Shamed By Survey Results, Reports Increased Interest From Grads
15 February 2012 10:45 AM | 6 Comments
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Grad Gossip
The Singrid Effect; KPMG’s Bernard Salt Marshals Apes on “Planet Normal”
7 December 2010Part of what Firm Spy stands for is to give junior corporate employees an opportunity to ventilate their views about corporate firm partners and management without fear. This is reflected on our "A...
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(No) End in Sight; Clayton Utz Suffers MORE Painful Blows
20 April 2010Here at the Firm Spy, we tend to take delight in the misfortune of greedy partnerships, especially those who we consider mistreat junior staff when times are tough. During the GFC, for example,...
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Ernst & Young Announces Grad Start-Date Deferrals as PKF Staffers Brace For Redundancies
25 January 2012In late November, we revealed that PwC had resolved to defer the start dates of its Corporate Finance grads by six months, in the process evoking painful memories of the cruel ultimatum the firm of...
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EXCLUSIVE: Firm Spy One-on-One Interview With Retiring Mallesons Chief Executive Partner Robert Milliner
4 November 2011Since our inception many moons ago we have tended, rightly or wrongly, to single out the figureheads, or Chief Executive Partners, of the various firms about which we write. The Spy takes the vie...
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Where(s) the Fox at? Update on the Australian Integration of DLA Piper
14 April 2010The emergence of key international firms in the domestic market has been a key development in 2010. We’ve seen the merger of Deacons with UK silver circle firm Norton Rose and the arrival of Alle...
Read moreRun of the Milliner; Mallesons/Clifford Chance Merger One Step Closer
23 October 2009If you're still doubting the imminent prospect of a Mallesons/Clifford Chance global merger, take one look at the Run of the Milliner. Our favourite Chief Executive Partner, who a remarkable 58 of you think is a part-time warlock (see poll, to the right), featured in an article earlier today in The Australian about changes to lawyer remuneration in which the following was said: Mr Milliner said the speed at which Australian firms abandoned "lock-step" salaries for all employed lawyers with the same years of service would be strongly influenced by international practice. He said the use of lock-step salary setting had been declining at major British law firms before the global financial crisis and there was no reason why this trend should not continue once the global recovery bec...
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Freehills Cutbacks an Effort to Reduce Carbon Emissions, Not Save Partner Dollars
4 August 2009A few weeks ago, the sleepy New South Welsh hamlet of Bunadoon voted to ban bottled water. Local businessman and Bundy on Tap organiser Huw Kingston said almost 400 people turned up to the Bundano...
Read morePunjabi (Pw)MC Mark Johnson Offshores More Australian PwC Jobs
18 March 2010At a time when major international corporate firms are creating a presence in Australia, it is something of an omen that international accounting heavyweight PricewaterhouseCoopers is rumoured to be actively seeking to move some of its work to affiliate offices in locations with favourable exchange rates. The end result of this is one of two things: the client gets charged less for the same work; or the PwC partnership forces the client to pay the same for work that in fact costs less and retains extra profit. Our guess is that the latter is what is happenening. Thanks very much to the anonymous PwC spy who sent us the following comments: Howdy Firmspy. Thought you might be interested in this. I have received word that PwC is looking to target a minimum of 20% of persona...
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Minter Ellison Lawyer ‘Discussed Child Sex, Rape, Bestiality and Incest’ in Recorded Conversation
2 April 2009A rather salacious incident recently came to the Firm Spy's attention, as reported in The Australian. According to court reports (and we express no opinion as to their truth or otherwise), a form...
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Leaked Youtube Video Controversy as Baker & McKenzie’s Chris Freeland Takes Centre Stage
20 August 2010A reasonably de riguer portfolio of legal-media platitudes greeted Chris Freeland last week as he commenced his new role as national managing partner of Baker & McKenzie. Freeland, a recent G...
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