To the anonymous barrister who messaged Firm Spy – without leaving an email address – please get in touch with an email address as we’d like to hear from you.
Also, to the ex-Shine Lawyers employee – yes, you can definitely be of assistance – but we need your contact details too. Please email us again and leave them!
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The Sounds of Silence: Robinson's ResAARrection & the Indolence of Mainstream Media
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Mallesons Bloodlust; Employee Hearts Sink Over "Anemic" Pay Rises
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FS Mental Health Series: Fighting Depression & Surviving as a Corporate Junior
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Rumour: Luis Izzo Resigns Days After ClizzoBridgetz Suppression Order Lifted
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Smartass Summer Clerk Sends Firm Rejection Letter
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CRACKED OUT! Ballarat Lawyer Zoe Gilder Boozed & On Meth When Car Crash OccurredRead More
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Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Garrett Williams Enters CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2012Read More
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“Dirty Little Promotion”: Swaab “Attorneys” Involved in “Legitimate” & Legal CompetitionRead More
In March we reported that Nicole Stransky had brought an action against her former employer Freehills claiming that she had been bullied and harassed at work in 2008 and 2009. She alleged the firm ...
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[ED: This post was originally published in early December last year, during which time Firm Spy was blocked at Mallesons. Given that the site is now freely accessible by staffers, we wanted to make...
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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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Thanks to the PwC spy who gave us the following audacious assessment of the firm: I work at PwC in a leadership position ... PwC's Internal I.T. department BS Technology (not to be mistaken for Bu...
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Both the DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox partnerships confirmed last week that the vote to merge had been successful and that DLA Piper would officially arrive on 1 May 2011. This means that 75% o...
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The reality of the GFC has struck Australia, leavimg many jobless and many more concerned for their future prosperity. It also has hit the legal industry, with widespread lawyer redundancies and su...
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The Firm Spy can confirm today that a gob-smacking 115 staff of been collectively laid off from DLA Phillips Fox, Deacons & Corrs Chambers Westgarth in the last month. Numbers lost. Fearful ...
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We reported last week the incredible revelation that Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe had been arrested for allegedly harassing fellow Minter Ellison partner Trent Forno. Alroe appears to have...
Read moreWe understand that you're probably sick of reading about it - we're certainly sick of writing about it - so unless something explosive happens, we'll make this our final post about the Clayton Utz partnership defections to Allen & Overy. This post clarifies further the Clayton Utz machinations giving rise to the defections. We have extracted some excellent info from the AFR 12/2, shedding light on how former Clutz Banking & Finance head partner Grant Fuzi was the protagonist in the Clutz partnership defections: It is Mr Fuzi's history with Clayton Utz, and his long-time association with Mr Trahair, a fellow Australian, that was instrumental in facilitating A&O's bold and sudden arrival here. As one partner said about Mr Fuzi this week: "The mistake we made was taking hi...
Read moreWe were dismayed to find out this morning that a rumour, heard several months ago by a Firm Spy team member but later dismissed because it appeared too farcical, is in fact legitimate. Yes, a perverted former Freehills cleaner with voyeuristic urges took it upon himself one evening late last year, on his nightly dunny-scrub, to photograph an unsuspecting Freehills lawyer perched atop the throne! Oh behave! As reported by The Age: A FORMER cleaner who aimed a camera at a woman in the toilets at Melbourne law firm Freehills faces a possible jail sentence. Rodrigo Garcia, 27, entered a cubicle in the Collins Street building after placing a cleaning sign outside the male toilets. Leading Senior Constable Stuart Hastings yesterday told Melbourne Magistrates Court that about...
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