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Brydens Lawyers Archive

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Blakes, Mallesons & Allens; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

9 June 2010

Considered Clint Eastwood's greatest cinematic triumph, the 1966 classic spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a story (says Wikipedia) of three gunslingers competing to find a fortun...

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I Can’t Believe it’s Not: A PwC Pay Freeze

13 May 2009

Whereas other corporate services firms, such as Minters, Freehills and Allens, have been forthright in announcing firm-wide pay-freezes, global accounting giant PwC has quietly gone about implement...

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No Second Chance at Clifford Chance

9 January 2009

News just to hand.  Clifford Chance has become the first Magic Circle firm to announce a formal redundancy scheme for 'a number of lawyers'.  An initial round of '70-80' layoffs will be undertake...

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PwC Admits Offering Graduates Cash to Defer

29 July 2009

It is always nice to hear when a rumour that we exclusively report is subsequently confirmed by the firm in question. And so, it is with a sense of pride that we can today report confirmation of a ...

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Rumour: Blake Dawson Votes on Ashurst Merger, Merger to Proceed

31 August 2011

The Blake Dawson partnership met and voted on a proposal to merge with London Silver Circle firm Ashurst on 20 August and the proposal was approved, if our source is to be believed. The passage of ...

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Burgess v Corrs Chambers Westgarth: Prepare For Brutal Litigation Trench Warfare

10 June 2011

Last week we exclusively reported that Corrs Chambers Westgarth is embroiled in an ugly spat involving former graduate at the firm, Ms Louise Burgess. Ms Burgess’ application alleges unlawful ...

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Clayton Utz Partner Joe Catanzariti Intimidates Sacked Worker

11 September 2009

Splashed arcoss national media yesterday was yet another sordid tale emanating out of besieged national law firm Clayton Utz. It involved a sacked Clutz lawyer, Michael Mitchell, who apparently sen...

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Details Emerge of DLA Phillips Fox Redundancy Package

4 August 2009

In response to our report last week that Mallesons Sorcerer Partner Robert Milliner is apparently thrusting objectionably low voluntary redundancy packages under the noses of anxious staff, we rece...

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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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Ernst & Young Announces Grad Start-Date Deferrals as PKF Staffers Brace For Redundancies

25 January 2012

In late November, we revealed that PwC had resolved to defer the start dates of its Corporate Finance grads by six months, in the process evoking painful memories of the cruel ultimatum the firm of...

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