We reported in late December the revelation that Minter Ellison was intending to lift its pay freeze. At the time, we thought that the thaw was dubious, however, because only particular staff would be given good news in the “letter notifying them of the result of their review“.
Sounds a lot like Minters & Chief Executive Partner John Weber only intend to increase the wages of those members of staff it is fearful of losing.
Over the break the Firm Spy received some disastrous gossip for the small few who genuinely hope to get a pay rise after the review. This from an anonymous – and apparently high-ranking – Minters spy:
recently exiled Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe has had the criminal charges against him dropped. This must be one hell of a slap in the face to his former, conniving partners Ken “Horny” Horsely and Trent “Porno” Forno. But more than that, the news I recently heard from John Weber that Alroe is intending to sue the firm for north of $15,000,000.00 must be sending shivers up the collective spine of all Minters partners – who, as everyone knows, are already paid at the very low end of the corporate law firm partnership wage spectrum.
Worse still, those lawyers hoping that Weber would make good on his recent promise to lift the firm-wide halt on pay rises can probably now expect their pay to remain steady in 2010.
You’ll recall that former Minters partner Simon Alroe was “voted off the island” in July 2009 for allegedly harassing colleague Trent Forno. Presumably the criminal charges mentioned by the anonymous Minters spy relate to charges of harassment arising out of an incident with Trent Forno. We understand that these charges were the primary rationale for de-equitising Alroe from the Minters partnership.
Accordingly, given that the charges were apparently considered as being without merit by QLD police, does this mean Alroe ought to be reinstated to the Minters partnership? Will Forno now be removed from the Minters partnership for registering charges that brought about the downfall of a colleague, yet were considered by authorities as being without substance?
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