In a relatively harmless scoop usually reserved for our friends at ALB or Lawyers Weekly, the Firm Spy can today reveal that the incredible expansion of Gilbert + Tobin will now see it emerge as a player in the Melbourne legal market.

As reported by a G+T spy over the weekend:

Danny Gilbert has just made a speech confirming that Gilbert + Tobin will open in Melbourne, FYI.

It is hardly surprising that G+T is proposing to open new offices. It was noted in the BRW (1/10) that:

Telstra has adopted a retainer arrangement with Gilbert + Tobin [described as] “a fixed fee that covers a substantial amount of work.

Presumably the fixed-fee arrangement is lucrative enough for G+T to take on this massive amount of work, and with such a guaranteed amount of money coming into the firm, now doubt a new office down south will not break the bank.

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