Firm Profile – Norton Rose

Macquarie ‘Millionaires Factory’ Makes Scores of Graduates Redundant

18 August 2009

The Firm Spy is working hard to improve the quality and the quantity of its Investment Bank gossip. To this end, we welcomed the following anonymous tip received on the weekend: Macquarie Capi...

Yammer Hammer; Deloitte Ambassadors Give Grads “Authentic Experience”

8 March 2011

Deloitte head of people and performance, Alec Bashinsky, last week revealed that the firm would be calling on staff to act as firm ambassadors to graduates considering a career with Deloitte. It is...

Lactose Tolerant: Breastfeeding Gong Affirms Clayton Utz’s Commitment to Women

9 September 2011

Beleaguered by the repeated allegations that it is a "hostile place for women to work", not to mention having been striken from the EOWA register as an Employer of Choice for Women, Clayton Utz is ...

The Anomalously Transparent Mud Review; Mallesons Lifts Pay Freeze

31 March 2010

We reported yesterday the rumour that AAR recently informed staff that frozen pay would be thawed as of July 1. If true, this move would bring it into line with its competitor Blake Dawson. We went...

PwC’s Mark Johnson Picks Up The Panic Phone

29 March 2010

Sometimes we wonder whether corporate firms have an panic-phone with a direct line to BRW. Take the interview with PwC Chief Executive Mark Johnson in the current edition as an example. Johnson, whose worldliness and refinement stems from having: spent his entire working life at PwC... expresses in the interview his dismay at the harsh treatment PwC received in the media last year: On a crisp autumn morning in 2009, PwC's newly appointed chief executive partner Mark Johnson sat in breezy forecourt in Sydney's Darling Harbour, fuming over what he saw as the careless disregard of the business press in reporting gloom day after day; over perceptions about job losses and corporate collapses turned into reality; over the impact of armchair theories on capital works and investment and t...

Freehills Partner Gavin ‘Hells’ Bell Queries Rise in Masters Applications

3 September 2009

In a terrific article by ALB profiling reasons for and against bolstering education through a postgraduate Masters course, Freehills CEO Gavin Bell said: "We have seen a slight increase in the num...

Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 3)

11 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 3) In March 2010, Magistrate Hennessy of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell to amend his complaint under s 10...

TEMPORARILY REDACTED Controversial BDO Email Leaked: “[Redacted]“

11 May 2011

There has been much interest in this post since we redacted the contents of an allegedly leaked BDO email. We decided against the publication of several comments following both the original post an...

Economic Dawn of the Dead; Sun Sets on AAR Pay Rises

30 October 2009

In an excellent article in today's Australian profiling the likely exodus from law firms in the new year - owing to long hours for low, frozen pay while fat cat partners laugh all the way to the bank - the following is written: Susan Ferrier, director of people and development at Allens Arthur Robinson -- which has a pay freeze -- said the firm wanted to avoid quickly changing policies on recruitment in case the latest signs of improvement were a "false economic dawn". "Post-Christmas I think many professional services organisations will have a clearer picture of where things are going in the economy," she said. The Firm Spy has profiled, and commented upon, a wide array of wanker corporate idioms, but "false economic dawn" is a new one and a particularly offensive way, we think, of...

UPDATE: Mallesons Rehires Redundant Secretary as Melbourne Environment Group Withers

18 March 2011

Last year, Mallesons headcount underwent a major contraction following its redundancy scheme. According to BRW, in FY 2009/2010, Mallesons booted a total of 13.1% of its workforce, moving employee ...

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Billion Dollar Bull Dust! Giam "Germ" Swiegers Shouts Staffers Day Off After "Execution" FAIL

PriceWaterhouseCOP-THIS! King Tightwad PWC CEO Luke Sayers Sacks Hundreds of Staffers

QLD University of Technology Class of 2006 Alumni Jarrod Bleijie Appointed QLD Attorney General

Herbert Smith & Freehills Prepare For June Merger Vote & October "Freebies" Date

Fair Work Ombudsman Investigates Unpaid Law Interns & Unpaid Work Experience Students

Paraplegic Grossly Overcharged: Keddies Lawyer Founder Russell Keddie Admits Professional Misconduct

GET BACK! The (H)AAR(D) Day's Night Is Over: Tracking The Demise of Industry Icon "Robinson"

"I'm Part of the Mile High Club" - Law Students Bare All on "Dating in the Dark Australia"

Megafirm Ethics: NSWSC Chief Justice Bathurst vs The Australian Legal Affairs Editor Chris Merritt

"You Execute Or You're Executed" - Swinging Dick Swiegers Prepares Deloitte Staffers For Sackings

The Real Story: AAR Ditches "Robinson" Branding in Favour of Allens Linklaters "Alliance"

BREAKING NEWS: Allens Arthur Robinson & Linklaters Agree to Global Merger - More to Come

MAJOR FS EXCLUSIVE: Erin Brokovich's $2 MILLION Shine Lawyers Contract Revealed

LOOK AT MOI! Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1st Lady Kath Day, The Filum & Model Anna Denton

The New Bachelor of Arts? Why Do Only 52% of JD & LLB "General" Grads Qualify as Lawyers?

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