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UPDATED “Jobs For The Boys”? QUOTALS Accused of Siphoning Freehills Job to Inner LSS Sanctum

6 June 2011

When the FS team gets nostalgic and thinks back to our uni days, a few OF us recall life in the law faculty. There were the weekly BBQs, LSS Law Ball Orgies, and the pub-crawls with "BYO Vomit Bag"...

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Allens Arthur Robinson Offers Staff 4-Day Working Week

27 October 2009

It came as news to us that national top-tier firm Allens Arthur Robinson recently offered staff a 4-day working week. As reported in the current BRW: Allens Arthur Robinson managing partner Mic...

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Deloitte Barnacles Bonus Bill & PwC Lacks Maturity in MASSIVE Growth Surge

31 August 2011

Bonuses Denied Despite Deloitte Growth Australia's fourth largest accounting firm by revenue, Deloitte, this year grew its income by an incredible 14 per cent. At that rate, the firm will have d...

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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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Michael “Trench” Mitchell Comments on Clayton Utz “Stalkbook” Case

20 October 2009

Great work by our friends at Lawyers Weekly getting the following comments out of Michael Mitchell - the figure at the centre of claims Clayton Utz sexual misconduct: NSW case law clearly states that it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine if there is substance to an allegation prior to a substantive hearing' (Ehl v. Department of Education and Training) Therefore, it was deeply troubling that the President of the Anti-Discrimination Board dismissed all of my complaints as being without a substantive basis prior to a substantive hearing, especially considering that the President did not explain his reasons in any way.  Following the President's decision,  Clayton Utz's legal counsel Kate Easton argued that  in order for me to be granted leave to pursue my complaint, I was r...

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King & Wood Mallesons: The Shape of Things to Come?

28 November 2011

As has been widely reported, Mallesons partners voted last Wednesday to approve the merger with Chinese firm King & Wood.  Not that we thought they'd do otherwise, despite our controversia...

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BREAKING NEWS: King & Wood Mallesons Merger Confirmed as Mallesons Braces For Beijing Merger Exodus

15 December 2011

State-based Mallesons managing partners have today conducted briefing sessions to confirm that the Chinese government has assented to the link up between the country's third largest law firm and Au...

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Deal or No Deal? Andrew O’Keefe Asked to Move AAR Articled Clerk Admissions

2 January 2009

Disgraced host of Channel 7 game show 'Deal or No Deal', Andrew O'Keefe, is presently deliberating over whether to accept an invitation from a group of Allens Arthur Robinson Melbourne Articled Cle...

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Deloitte Boss Giam Swiegers Boasts of ‘Double Digit Growth’ Amid Redundancy Rumours

11 June 2009

Since the GFC struck the Firm Spy has regularly queried whether firms have been using the economic climate as the scapegoat for firm redundancies which are in truth attributable to partner greed. ...

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Clayton Utz HR Delivers ‘Third Blow’ To Sydney Grads

9 November 2009

Thanks to the anonymous Clayton Utz spy who sent us the following audacious comments on the weekend.   Dear Firm Spy, I am a long-time reader but a first-time Spy. You recently reported that in March this year, as part of the “Clayton Utz firm-wide salary freeze”, rotating graduates who had been promised salary increases of at least 5k at the end of each of their three rotations were ‘dodged’ when it came time to make-good on those promises. Well despite Clutz making $491 million last financial year, on 16 October the firm delivered its third blow below the belt to Clutz grads - we were dodged in March, we did not even receive CPI at the end of June and now we have been dodged yet again! On 16 October we were ordered by HR to assemble and form ranks ready to be addressed b...

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