We found the following comments penned by an anonymous Minter Ellison spy in the Lawyer Remuneration Survey to be so comical that we decided to dedicate an entire post to it. A tirade of the very highest order ! If you would like the more specific details of Minter Ellison Firm Spy Remuneration Report, click here.

your Senior Associateship begins now, son

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Minters must win the award for Australia’s tightest law firm. A salary wide freeze continues even though the managing partner of our firm admits we are making budget. Many SA’s don’t even get a Blackberry (all lawyers get them at some firms). Rise to the lofty height of SA and you will get a mobile phone though… What is this, the mid 90’s?!

There’s a hostile approach to technology - three people need to sign off before you get the “privilege” of being able to log in from home… apparently if they cant see you doing the work, you can’t be trusted to do it. To make it worse there’s a lot of incentive to work from home because the offices are old, the chairs are unergonomic and the fit out is falling apart (I’m being serious!).

Perks don’t even exist: even the fruit box has been stopped. The printers and photocopiers break down with amazing regularity and the library is so underfunded it has practically turned into a museum. Sadly the tightness doesn’t stop with staff - client functions are embarrassing compared to other firms … just because you offer wine doesn’t make it a classy function.

The tightness apparently doesn’t stop with the client functions either - recall last year’s Minter Ellison staff Christmas party which ran out of beer? More troubling is the question raised as to whether Minter Ellison can lawyers be trusted on their lonesome. Without detracting from the sheer brilliance of the comments, we would point out that some Minter Ellison billing narrations have been characterised as “opaque” in the past. But still, what gives!?

We agree that the firm is probably making budget. No less than NINE partners were made up earlier in the year. Given that a whopping 40% of partners are reported to have taken home $1,100,000.00 in the twelve months to June this year, it is hard to see how things can have suffered a downturn. Plus they’ve got all that extra cash laying around to throw at excellent initiatives like the Minter Ellison branded coffee cup!

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