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Freehills Loses Superannuation Group to Lander & Rogers as Leading Practices Review Rolls On

19 May 2011

And now that we've got that emotional rubbish out of the way... let's move onto some good old-fashioned gossip - the stuff you visit us for! Following on from our posts profiling the Freehills L...

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PwC Spy Unleashes Fury at “Greedy” Partnership Indian Offshoring

10 May 2010

Following on from our recent stories profiling the attrition rate at Big4 accounting firms came these comments from an anonymous PWC spy over the weekend: As a PwC audit employee, I can vouch for ...

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GET BACK! The (H)AAR(D) Day’s Night Is Over: Tracking The Demise of Industry Icon “Robinson”

4 May 2012

Ignoring the obvious coextensive loss of "Arthur", it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to welcome "Allens Linklaters" without pausing to reflect on whether AllensGate - specifically, the tarnishin...

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BDO Gossip Roundup: Mergers, Secret Side Deals and Private Investigators

11 October 2011

[Update 17/10 - we've turned this post into a feature because, well, we thought everyone should get a chance to read "partners abusing the living daylights out of each other" in the comments.] T...

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Clayton Utz Redundancies – The GFC Enters New Territory

7 February 2009

In a clear departure from its earlier representations, Clayton Utz has today made two second-year lawyers redundant from its private equity practice in Sydney. Whereas mere weeks ago the Clutz m...

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Tiny Necromancer; Mallesons Staff Decry Rumoured Frugal Offer

31 July 2009

We reported yesterday the revelation that Mallesons has been forced, by dint of the GFC, to shed 5% of staff. Mallesons Chief Executive Clairvoyant Partner Robert Milliner, dismissed the heartwarmi...

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Rumour PWC Set For Third Major Restructure in 12 Months

18 November 2009

It sounds like something is definitely on the cards (again!) at PWC. Not satisfied with the cost saving yielded by ditching client Christmas cards and removing chocolate buscuits from the shopping list, an anymous PWC spy has revealed that more heavy-handed cut-backs are apparently looming: PwC to restructure AGAIN! So the rumours are running rampant aroudnd the office that we are once again going to have an internal "review / restructure/redundancy". For some departments that would mean the 3rd in he past 12 months. How is anyone expected to be productive if the moment you start to understand what it is you are meant to do they change it again? And what does that mean for your development? I am so sick and tired of being told they want to develop me when they a) have limited all tr...

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Delusional Darryl: Clutz “Bucking a Bit of a Trend” on Partner Defections

29 April 2011

The Firmspy team hopes everyone had a safe and happy easter.  Now that we're back on deck and recovered from our hangovers backlog of emails, we should return to our normal post schedule. Thank...

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Lift Profit Order: Allens Arthur Robinson Forges LPO Agreement in Embarassing Leaked U-Turn

27 February 2012

Back in October last year, we reflected on the emergence of legal process outsourcing (LPO) and the  "enveloping sh*t-fight" to forge a career as a successful Australian lawyer. If we thought ba...

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Sticking it to Minter Ellison; Xmas in July Morale Mission Falls Flat

19 July 2010

Our friends inside Minter Ellison have repeatedly told us in recent weeks that quality lawyers are departing the firm in unprecedented numbers. Preliminary results on the FIrm Spy Remuneration Surv...

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