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Baker and McKenzie Archive

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Rumour; Deloitte Voicemail Reveals Drug Dealers Deleted

31 July 2009

The Firm Spy has been very critical of Deloitte in recent months. We thought that the massive growth in partnership profits against the backdrop of rumours of cutbacks, a pay freeze and continu...

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WANTED – Craig Raneberg: Alleged Fraudster Minter Ellison CFO Reportedly Took Millions From Partners

15 August 2011

Minter Ellison's former CFO Craig Raneberg is on the run and a wanted man. He is being investigated by South Australian Police over allegations he misappropriated several million dollars from t...

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Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2)

12 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2) In January 2010, Magistrate Hennessy of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell to correct orders a...

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Deloitte Faces Bullying Law Suit from Tax Financial Services Group 1

14 April 2011

We welcomed the news last week that the Victorian Parliament will soon enact laws that will expose workplace bullies to as much as 10-years jail. Referred to as "Brodie Panlock's Law", it is hoped ...

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UPDATE Surprise Spoiled: Mallesons Staffers to Receive Dodgey Gift to Memorialise King Mallesons’ Wood Merger

29 February 2012

What better way to leverage newly forged links with China than with a cheap t-shirt manufactured in Chinese sweatshop? It would at once be a poetic symbol of the globalisation of the manufacturing ...

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Freehills Says ‘Trend is Up’; Mallesons Says ‘Recovery Not Likely’

11 December 2009

When you've implemented a redundancy scheme that has given rise to a 25% constriction in the number of senior associates populating the office, it is time to speak out in media, ramp up the PR machine, and sell to staff/the public the rationale of such action. Accordingly, we saw Mallesons Chief Executive partner Robert Milliner quoted in yesterday's AFR as follows: 'Milliner said the size of the firm had been adjusted to reflect falling work volumes and a recovery was not likely in the medium term... "most of our clients here and overseas have gone through cost constraints, or because of the disruption of the debt markets have not been able to raise leverage to do the [M&A] activity they have done before". This comes just a few days after Mallesons spokeswoman Kate Rimer w...

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Hail to the King: Firm Spy Unblocked at Mallesons

2 May 2011

Plenty of chatter lately about the recent unblocking of Firm Spy by Mallesons. As we reported two weeks ago, the Powers That Be agreed that the ban was counter-productive and amounted to denyin...

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Rumour: Deloitte Considers Purchase of BDO QLD/WA as BDO Legal Action Commenced

13 April 2011

Continuing with the theme over the last few weeks, we today publish yet another set of rumours emanating out of embattled mid-tier accounting firm BDO. First this, from an anonymous BDO spy: Given...

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KPMG’s Perth Tax Division Counts Losses as “Maverick” Underpaid Staff Depart

16 March 2011

It has been a while since we've reported anything on Big 4 accounting firm KPMG; we thought the firm might finally be cleaning its act up. But then we received this: After up to 12 departures (fro...

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The Sounds of Silence: Robinson’s ResAARrection & the Indolence of Mainstream Media

25 March 2011

Two weeks have now passed since AllensGate done got real, and there's still nary a mention of the sorry saga in any of our favourite Friday legal rags.  This has led some spies to wonder why -- is...

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