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Grant Fuzi & Bridgette Styles; Update on Clayton Utz’s Other Two Litigation Dogfights

17 December 2010

Building on from the five posts below, we've decided to publish a post updating you all on Clayton Utz's two other legal proceedings in 2010. Three legal proceedings, 14 partner defections, embroil...

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Punjabi (Pw)MC Mark Johnson Offshores More Australian PwC Jobs

18 March 2010

At 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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MAJOR EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaked Confidential Holding Redlich Board Report Reveals Sick And Sorry Workplace

2 September 2011

National law firm Holding Redlich performance manages staff it hopes will quit the firm by diverting work and making employees feel they are under-performing, according to a confidential r...

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More Details on Collapse of WA Law Society Articled Clerk Recruitment Scheme

10 August 2009

Thanks to the anonymous spy who emailed us the following tip on the weekend: Dudley Stow's President's Report from this month's 'Brief' (Law Society Journal): "At the time of writing the Articled ...

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Snake & Bake! Baker & McKenzie Hisses at Long-Nosed Adder SAs

1 July 2010

In late August last year, with a post entitled "Shit Sandwich", we reported the news that Baker & McKenzie had elevated Bruce Hambrett to the chairmanship of its Australian offices. We reck...

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Rumour; Freehills Flouts Law Society Graduate Guidelines

3 August 2009

In a report that was far from a surprise, The West Australian noted recently that graduates can expect a more difficult time securing employment this year as a result of the GFC. Importantly, the a...

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PUNCH ON! Brawl Allegedly Erupts Between Senior Minter Ellison Lawyers at Client Function

29 November 2011

Seriously. We've heard some absolute crackers out of Minter Ellison over the years. There was the debauched bestiality phone call involving one of the firm's special counsel. A few months down the ...

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Rumour: Sacked AAR Secretary “Received Permission” To Access External Emails

25 May 2011

In our most recent AllensGate post we wrote the following: We understand that on 4 April 2011, a firm-wide AAR email was sent relating to the personal use of AAR email and reiterating all other f...

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Unratcheted Derelicte; AAR Performance Pay is Really Really Good Looking

22 June 2010

In an excellent article, aptly entitled Fears over performance pay, the AFR (4/6) gave an overview of the apparent shift in international legal circles from lock-step remuneration, based on experie...

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Deloitte Denies Claims that Workers are being ‘Managed Out’

18 June 2009

Deloitte's Vessa Playfair, the same character who took a pot-shot at other Big 4 accounting firms by saying 'they have been prepared to retrench and we haven't' when the firm instituted a pay freez...

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