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Archive for October, 2008

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AAR Victoria’s Secret; Aconex Knickers in a Knot

25 February 2011

There were high-5s among the men and women of the FS office this week when it was announced, finally, that iconic women's underwear brand Victoria's Secret would be making its way down under. At th...

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Freehills Leading Practices Review: Is Your Group on the Chopping Block?

31 March 2011

A couple of weeks ago we broke the story that Freehills was considering severing its ER group from the firm. We later calculated that the move would net partners an average profit of under $12,000 ...

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UPDATE: MAN WHO’RE Bridgette Styles & Clayton Utz? FS Answers the Big Questions

23 June 2011

Last week the AFR in our view undersold the gravity of the Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles litigation nightmare. The newspaper referred to it, rather triflingly, as a "lingering PR headache". It is ...

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How Much Do They Earn? Clayton Utz Partner Salaries Revealed

21 December 2010

How will your firm look in 2015? "I'm very certain that we are going to be a very successful and strong firm." (Clayton Utz Chief Executive Partner David Fagan, 25/06/2010) Today marks t...

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The Deloitte Vow of Poverty; Giam Sweigers’ Daily “Prayer Time” Phone Calls

2 July 2010

A few weeks ago, you'll recall the sermon we delivered in respect of Deloitte Chief Giam Sweigers' "favourite management mottos". We  read Giam's commandments mottos, immediately took the Lord's n...

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Deloitte Boss Giam Swiegers Boasts of ‘Double Digit Growth’ Amid Redundancy Rumours

11 June 2009

Since the GFC struck the Firm Spy has regularly queried whether firms have been using the economic climate as the scapegoat for firm redundancies which are in truth attributable to partner greed. ...

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Double-Downer; Clayton Utz Forces Support Staff to Wear Name-Badges

30 March 2011

Apparently unlike the rest of Australia, we took one look at the KFC double-down "burger" and thought: good source of protein; delicious; one quarter of your daily caloric intake in a cheap...

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Freedom Shackled; Freehills Partner Tempers Earlier Encouraging Firm Comments

29 December 2008

In what might be construed as an effort to assuage the earlier message that the firm is 'in good stead', Freehills managing partner Gavin Bell has made some comments which will likely dampen the fe...

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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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Muscial Chairs; DLA Phillips Fox Sackings Amid Rumoured Floor Consolidation

30 June 2009

After our report on the KPMG tenancy reduction, we received the following information from a DLA Phillips Fox spy on the weekend: DLAPF Adelaide is on the hunt again. Five more support staff axed ...

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