Freehills, Corrs Set to Push Grads Out of the Office in Landmark Deal

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Freehills, Corrs Set to Push Grads Out of the Office in Landmark Deal

Posted by The Spy | Posted in Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Firm Gossip, Freehills | Posted on 9.03pm

In the aftermath of a pay-freeze which the Freehills partnership has confirmed will last well into the future, and following Corrs’ ‘innovative’ measures to avoid paying excess dollars to underutilised graduates, the two firms have

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today announced an new method by which they can offload unwanted graduates: make them teach in schools. The two firms have joined forces to partner with Teach For Australia, a scheme reportedly designed to bolster the ranks of Australia’s education system:

Teach for Australia takes graduates and gives them accelerated training to teach in public secondary schools for two years.

The scheme is supported by both Freehills and Corrs, as well as Boston Consulting Group, and while the finer points of the partnership are unclear, it appears that graduates in these three firms will be able to participate in the scheme without fear of losing their graduate position once the two-year term concludes.

Not taken in by this apparently charitable act, a Freehills spy suggests that this is nothing more than:

a veiled attempt by the partnership to hedge their bets going forward… A couple in each intake of graduates will no doubt volunteer to teach and the partners will retain a discretion to permit them to do so, giving them an ability to hedge their bets at a time when no one knows what the future holds.

Do you think that Corrs, Freehills and BCG’s ‘partnership’ with Teach For Australia is simply a ruse to hedge their bets for graduate numbers into the future?

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(7) Comments

Anonymous Lawyer said on :26/Apr/2009 at 02:04

bad news. no similar plans here (Deacons) as far as I can tell, but weve been hit in other ways..
TTT said on :26/Apr/2009 at 05:04

I would have thought that even if the intentions are as maligned as you suggest, the fact that children in underprivileged schools will benefit is enough for this to be overlooked by the Firm Spy.
Rogan said on :26/Apr/2009 at 05:04

CLassic pointscore by the firms here
Loz said on :26/Apr/2009 at 06:04

I think this scheme is a great idea and this will have a positive impact on the beleaguered education system.
S4 said on :27/Apr/2009 at 08:04

Any word on whether there will be a wider requirement on employers losing staff to the scheme to keep open jobs for when the ‘teachers’ want to return to law firms etc (assuming they want to)?
Gerard said on :27/Apr/2009 at 08:04

Does this mean i can get out of this office and actually do something worthwhile?
Seasonal Clerk said on :27/Apr/2009 at 08:04

Maybe middletons should sign up rather than basically stopping all recruitment…