A storm is brewing at leading Australian law firm Blake Dawson over fears that partners will announce a pay freeze

Blakes lawyers revolt over pay freeze

We received the following information from two separate sources over the weekend:

I have been informed that the Blake’s partnership is actively deliberating over a pay freeze right now, with a view to making an announcement next week… I wanted to express to the Firm Spy, so that this information could be fed through to the partners via your site, that a pay freeze will seriously offend all Blakes lawyers. Business is booming here. I do not know of a single lawyer with any capacity right now… A pay freeze would be a gross act of partnership profiteering.

And this, from another source:

If Blake Dawson partners announce a pay freeze next week, I think it will cause a revolt… The redundancies went too far and we’re now very light in many areas, meaning that billings must surely be high.

In February, Blake Dawson took the revolutionary steps of announcing that it was intending to make many sackings.
The firm then duly sacked 89 workers, but advised the affected workers to tell their colleagues they were ‘going home sick’. The Blake Dawson Wikipedia page was then hijacked in relation to the debacle.

Will a pay freeze affecting over-worked lawyers cause yet another GFC first at Blakes; an employee revolt?

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