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Food Fight at Tress Cox: Fat Trimming Trims Lawyers But Fails to Slim Melbourne Partners’ Waistlines

13 October 2011

An anonymous spy sends word of trouble at Tress Cox.  Sounds like the full gamut of fairly typical issues for semi-integrated national firms: partnership squabbles, uninspiring leadership, brain d...

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Ernst & Young & the Restless Staff Query ‘Departures’ amid New Redundancy Rumours

10 June 2009

In a huge week for Big 4 accounting screwups gossip, the Firm Spy can today reveal new rumours of discreet sackings, but this time at Ernst & Young. This from an Ernst & Young spy today:...

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Rumour; Deloitte Voicemail Reveals Drug Dealers Deleted

31 July 2009

The Firm Spy has been very critical of Deloitte in recent months. We thought that the massive growth in partnership profits against the backdrop of rumours of cutbacks, a pay freeze and continu...

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EXCLUSIVE – Freehills CEP Gavin Bell Debunks LPR Amid New Departures

18 August 2011

In 2011, we have seen a number of major departures from top-tier law firm and GFC employer of choice - Freehills. In May we broke the news that Freehills had lost its Melbourne-based Superannuation...

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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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28,000 Law Students & Growing: We Ask The Council of Law Deans Whether Australia is Over-Lawyered

2 November 2011

In case our position still isn't clear, we'll say it again here. We think there are too many law students and too many law graduates in Australia. This very issue to our minds gives rise to the str...

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Rumour; Clayton Utz Graduates Dodged By Partners

1 September 2009

Thanks to the Clayton Utz spy who made the following comments: All graduates were told they would receive a salary increase of at least $5k p/a at the end of each of our 3 rotations (every 6 month...

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Pants Down! Freehills Lawyer Photographed By Perverted Cleaner

4 March 2010

We were dismayed to find out this morning that a rumour, heard several months ago by a Firm Spy team member but later dismissed because it appeared too farcical, is in fact legitimate. Yes, a perverted former Freehills cleaner with voyeuristic urges took it upon himself one evening late last year, on his nightly dunny-scrub, to photograph an unsuspecting Freehills lawyer perched atop the throne! Oh behave! As reported by The Age: A FORMER cleaner who aimed a camera at a woman in the toilets at Melbourne law firm Freehills faces a possible jail sentence. Rodrigo Garcia, 27, entered a cubicle in the Collins Street building after placing a cleaning sign outside the male toilets. Leading Senior Constable Stuart Hastings yesterday told Melbourne Magistrates Court that about...

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‘We Will Starve’; PwC Staff Outrage at Rumoured Mass Partner Retirements

28 May 2009

As reported in today's Finacial Review against the wishes of the PwC partnership: ...it is understood between 40 and 50 partners were given the option [of a payout] to leave the firm before June 3...

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Premature Evacuation; DLA Phillips Fox Decimated By Mass Defections Pre-Merger

11 March 2011

Both the DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox partnerships confirmed last week that the vote to merge had been successful and that DLA Piper would officially arrive on 1 May 2011.  This means that 75% o...

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