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Clifford Chance Archive

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Corrs Closes Doors: Gold Coast Office Closure

25 July 2008

In contrast to its graduate recrutiment page, which heralds to prospective graduates that 'Corrs opens Doors', Corrs Chambers Westgarth today loudly shut the doors to its Gold Coast Office. This mo...

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Deloitte Partners Splurge on “Lavish Mansions” as Juniors Dodged on Education

8 April 2010

We published a report last year on the seemingly oppressive education conditions that Big4 accounting firm Deloitte forced upon junior staff. Our anonymous Deloitte spy noted in that post, in respe...

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Seasonal Clerk Calls Mallesons Lawyers ‘Arrogant’ in Staggering Outburst

1 June 2009

Seasonal clerks take up too much office room, are rarely helpful and sometimes smell, but it is not often that a law firm's effort to help clerks find graduate employment will actually cause it h...

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MAJOR UPDATES – EXCLUSIVE: KPMG Announces Major Voluntary Redundancy & Part-Paid Leave Scheme

24 October 2011

[UPDATE, 26/10/2011, various sections of this post have been updated following the emergence of new information overnight] Less than two weeks after the resignation of its China Practice leader,...

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Clayton Utz Launches iPhone App: Clients Groan, Nobody Cares

12 October 2011

Clutz have apparently just launched a new iPhone app: just what you always wanted, right?  Not so for this spy: I am absolutely astounded to have received an invitation to download "pocketCU"...

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3rd Degree Deal Backburn; Clayton Utz Incinerated By More Rumoured Defections

14 July 2010

In early June, The Australian characterised the IPO of Valemus as: the biggest of the year and the largest since Myer's ... float last year, potentially giving hope to the stagnant IPO market. V...

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Bank Sector Redundancy Explosion: Westpac Bank Prepares to Sack Hundreds of Staff

24 January 2012

Following last week's news that ANZ has fired approximately 130 employees apparently after periodically sacking more workers in the months prior to the announcement, comes news that Westpac looks s...

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Clayton Utz Redundancies are a ‘Conscious Choice to Keep Resources’

17 June 2009

In the current edition of BRW, Clayton Utz chief executive partner David Fagan makes the following comments: We've gone through a period where recruiting staff has been a difficult exercise, so we...

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Freehills Calls in External Advisors; Allegedly Considers Splitting Employment Group From Firm

17 March 2011

Last week it was reported that a Freehills executive counsel, Teresa Torcasio, and a partner, Steven Kerr, had defected from the firm to join the further-study tightwad partnership that is HWL Ebsw...

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PwC Penny-Pinching; No Quarter Given to Generous Staff

2 July 2009

Thanks 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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