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How Much Do They Earn? Freehills Partner Salaries Exposed

9 December 2010

Over the last few months, the PR teams at a couple of major law firms have taken to emailing Firm Spy with various propaganda media releases ostensibly aimed at generating positive media sentiments...

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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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Mallesons Bloodlust; Employee Hearts Sink Over “Anemic” Pay Rises

5 July 2010

To have the ticker to pump decent pay rises into employee hearts and minds, partners must have enough blood money in the bank to share. That, or the promise or reasonable certainty of money to come...

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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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Fox Hole? Questions Raised Over Prospects of DLA Piper Merger

18 February 2011

In late January, DLA Phillips Fox announced what the whole legal world knew for some time - it would soon be officially merging with affiliate DLA Piper. The official announcement came approximatel...

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Rumour: Luis Izzo Resigns Days After ClizzoBridgetz Suppression Order Lifted

9 December 2011

By the measure of things, last week must have been a truly horrible time in the life of Clutz lawyer Luis Izzo. Emails he expected would remain correspondence between himself and the intended addre...

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UPDATE Rumour: BDO Directors Quit Amid Demands for MORE Personally Guaranteed Capital

23 March 2011

[ED BDO Chairman Tony Schiffman has sent an official response which we've included below] In its official response to our post last week reporting rumours of its impending collapse, the National...

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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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Incredible Update on AAR Lawyer Salaries & Performance Reviews

19 November 2009

Sounds like some of the figures we reported earlier in the week in the Allens Arthur Highway Robbery Robinson Lawyer Salary Report were off the mark. If you believe the comments of the anonymous AAR spy below, anyhow. The comments about the successful achievement of its "distribution curve", if true, offer the most candid insight into how Allens' partners are using tactical performance management to, at best, reduce lawyer salaries and, at worst, open up the possibility of reduced headcount. The target billable hours published for Allens Arthur Robinson are wrong. Accurate targets are: Law Graduate (unadmitted, equivalent of articled clerk or UK trainee): 4.5 hours ($67k incl superannuation) 1st year Lawyer: 6.1 hours (approx $68K includig superannuation) 2+ Lawyer: 6.5 hours (appro...

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Minter Ellison Partners Paid $1.1m+ After Apparently Sacking Mother of 5

28 September 2009

It emerged yesterday that an elderly home-invader found it necessary to berate ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer for failing to save Schapelle Corby from hard time in Kerbokoban prison. ...

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