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		<title>CRACKED OUT! Ballarat Lawyer Zoe Gilder Boozed &amp; On Meth When Car Crash Occurred</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[booze &#38; crack destruction First she got a drunken man who swung an axe at his mate&#8217;s head out of a jail sentence. Next, she convinced a Magistrate that a...]]></description>
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		<title>Marry Me Herbert! Freehills CEP Gavin Bell Confirms Herbies Merger Talks in Leaked Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[exploratory talks yesterday Following our article and subsequent analysis of the looming merger between Herbert Smith and Freehills &#8211; or &#8220;Freebies&#8221;, which we hope the firm will the rebranded &#8211;...]]></description>
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		<title>Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Garrett Williams Enters CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hellooo ladies Not to be confused with his (almost) namesake &#8211; a self-important weasel from The Office famously known for overestimating his allure to members of the opposite sex &#8211;...]]></description>
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		<title>FINAL CLEARANCE: 50% Off Mallesons Merchandise &#8211; Hurray (Sic) Stock Won&#8217;t Last!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[King & Wood Mallesons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Out of date merchandise For those peculiar Mallesonian sods who don&#8217;t get enough exposure to their workplace through gruelling 18-hour days and weekends in the office, a tantalising cut-price option...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Dirty Little Promotion&#8221;: Swaab &#8220;Attorneys&#8221; Involved in &#8220;Legitimate&#8221; &amp; Legal Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[an Australian attorney yesterday It has only happened a few times, but whenever we hear an Australian solicitor referring to themselves as an &#8220;attorney&#8221;, we quiver with vexation. A jerk...]]></description>
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		<title>Law Student Numbers &#8220;Uncapped&#8221;: ATARs Nosedive as Student Enrolment Levels Become Demand-Driven</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  the ferderal govt yesterday Some of our readers will know that earlier this month major reforms for Australia’s higher education sector took effect. The changes, regarded by some as...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Song of Love, Loss &amp; Hard Work&#8221;: Triple J Unearths Mallesons Lawyer Robbie True</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robbie walking the long road yesterday Did you listen to the Australia Day Triple J Hottest 100? We had it playing in the FS bunker and were pleased to see...]]></description>
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		<title>ANALYSIS: Herbert Smith Freehills Merger To Overcome &#8220;Panic&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Loss-Making&#8221; Operations</title>
		<link>http://firmspy.com/big-firms/freehills/7753/analysis-herbert-smith-freehills-merger-to-overcome-panic-loss-making-operations</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freehills pushes the button Since our recent article profiling the looming merger between Freehills and Silver Circle firm Herbert Smith, more details have come to light. We spent some time...]]></description>
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		<title>Anderson Rice Lawyers: No Art Collection, No Hand Ground Brazillian Coffee, No Managing Partner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anderson Rice passes on the Brazillian In case you missed the story late last week, the managing partner of Anderson Rice Lawyers &#8211; a small Melbourne-based law firm &#8211; and...]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Back! The New Site, A General FS Update &amp; The Year Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can see folks, we&#8217;re back at work and back online. We hope all our readers had a safe break and have some energy to get back into things...]]></description>
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		<title>Ernst &amp; Young Announces Grad Start-Date Deferrals as PKF Staffers Brace For Redundancies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[an EY audit partner meets grads In late November, we revealed that PwC had resolved to defer the start dates of its Corporate Finance grads by six months, in the...]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Sector Redundancy Explosion: Westpac Bank Prepares to Sack Hundreds of Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[here comes the razor's edge Following last week&#8217;s news that ANZ has fired approximately 130 employees apparently after periodically sacking more workers in the months prior to the announcement, comes...]]></description>
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		<title>TOXIC TIT FLOCK SHOCK! Frenzied Flesh-Bulbs Knock Down Shine Lawyers&#8217; Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[bunnies bust in Ask a plastic surgeon what fake breasts can do for a woman (or transgender individual) and you&#8217;re likely to hear a variety of responses that fall into...]]></description>
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		<title>Middletons Merges With Brisbane Firm Flower &amp; Hart as Baker &amp; McKenzie Considers QLD Office</title>
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		<comments>http://firmspy.com/big-firms/baker-mckenzie/7731/middletons-merges-with-brisbane-firm-flower-hart-as-baker-mckenzie-considers-qld-office#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bakers' global fluency freakshow Australia&#8217;s 15th largest law firm by revenue Middletons became slightly bigger on Friday with the announcement that it would merge with Birsbane firm Flower &#38; Hart....]]></description>
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		<title>Big4 Redundancies: &#8220;Dozens&#8221; To Be Sacked In Ernst &amp; Young Productivity Downturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EY's Finance team on Friday Australia&#8217;s 3rd largest accounting firm by revenue, Ernst &#38; Young, has become the latest professional services firm to officially announce job losses on the back...]]></description>
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		<title>Abortive FREEBIES!! International Merger Between Freehills &amp; Herbert Smith Set to Proceed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a good looking child? Herbert Smith Freehills. Get used to that name folks, coz it&#8217;s here to stay. Don&#8217;t believe us? Take a wander to www.herbertsmithfreehills.com &#8230; the domain name...]]></description>
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		<title>ANZ Announces Hundreds of Reudundancies After Several Months of Rumoured Hushed Exits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ANZ staffer leaves the building The year has opened on a gloomy note indeed for those in Australia&#8217;s financial sector with news earlier this week that ANZ intends to...]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Firm Spy Corporate Firm of the Year: Marque Lawyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We seek from our readers an indulgence but once a year &#8211; in a calendar that stretches the gamut of the corporate, the incorporate, the legal, the illegal, the parliamentary,...]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the KPMG &#8220;Air Wankers&#8221;: Voluntary Redundancy Exit Dates Delayed, Partner Walk-outs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tick BOOM!!! Citibank Employee Sacked Over Viral Neil Cannon Email Issues Proceedings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Cannon on a pre-tick-boom Friday night After naming and shaming Neil Cannon, only to become aware days later that his &#8220;Tick Boom&#8221; email was an elaborate hoax by a...]]></description>
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