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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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Lack of MOMENTUM; Clayton Utz Stripped of Employer Credentials

11 March 2010

Earlier this week, the federal governement, through its Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), named 12 Australian law firms that support women in the workplace. Those named were: Corrs Chambers Wegarth, Baker & McKenzie, AAR, Blakes, Cooper Grace Ward, Freehills, Holding Redlich, G+T, Maddocks, Mallesons, McCullough Robertson and Sparke Helmore. One firm was conspicuous in its absence - Clayton Utz. We received the following comments from an anonymous spy last night in relation to the non-appearance of Clutz this year: Six is an interesting number. Six is the number of new partners @ Clutz - all male. It is also, according to what firmspy would have us beleive the number of grdauates - all female who were terminated by Clutz in Melbourne. Considering ...

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This Year’s Winners: Minters, Freehills & Blakes – Top Tier Revenue Stats Revealed

30 August 2011

Some highly interesting stats in the current edition of BRW (25/08). It is the BRW Top 500 Private Companies edition and it records the FY 2010/11 revenue results of all of Australia's major law fi...

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Weekend Warriors: How Mallesons Juniors Work Harder Than The Others

1 May 2011

[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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Deacons/Norton Rose Thaws Pay Freeze For “Most” Lawyers

12 February 2010

Thanks to the anonymous Deacons/Norton Rose spy who sent us the following tip last night: After freezing our salaries last year, Norton Rose has decided to thaw them. We all got an email from Don Boyd this afternoon saying there had been a review and the outcome "will result in salary increases for most of our lawyers." The increase will be back-dated to Jan 1. I will be checking my payslip very carefull on Monday. Uh oh! Not the now tried-and-true use of opaque language like "most of our lawyers"! Does this mean 51% will get increases in pay? Who will miss out? Sounds to us like Don 'Dubya' Boyd might have another major gaffe on his hands. This thaw, if true, comes after similar moves by Freehills and Minter Ellison (who promised staff a thorough 'review', whatever that means) la...

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PwC Rumour; Staff Forewarned ‘Start Looking for Another Job’

13 October 2009

Following news we reported a couple of weeks ago that PwC is poised to make further job cuts, we received the following interesting tip from an anonymous PwC spy yesterday: PwC is at it again! Fol...

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Firm Spy Remuneration – Mallesons Lawyer Salaries

11 November 2009

Please find below our revised report into Mallesons lawyer salaries. Thankfully, the firm has introduced a sweeping redundancy scheme in between the receipt of many of these responses and today's publication, making it difficult to determine who has submitted the relevant responses and whether they remain at the firm. Of course, we're dealing with a chief executive warlock, so anything is possible! Please let us know if you're worried that we have inadvertently exposed you as an anonymous tipster (of sorts) by sending us your remuneration package details. We still need more people to complete the survey, so by all means continue your great work by filling in the remuneration survey. We will post each of the Big 6 law firms in order of revenue. Mallesons is on the record as sayin...

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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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Freehills Leading Practices Review: Is Your Group on the Chopping Block?

31 March 2011

A couple of weeks ago we broke the story that Freehills was considering severing its ER group from the firm. We later calculated that the move would net partners an average profit of under $12,000 ...

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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; DLA Merger Talks Intensify Amid Absence of “Financials”

17 March 2010

We reported in August 2009, in a post entitled "DLA Phillips Fox(t)rot; Formal Merger DLA Piper Sought", that national mid-tier firm DLA Phillips Fox was seeking an early 2010 formal financial integration with DLA Piper. In the current edition of BRW, incoming DLA Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland sheds some light on the prospects of a full merger: After just three weeks in the role, most recently managing partner of DLA Piper's Dubai office, has been forced to defend the Australian firm's merger talks with his former firm... Holland said negotiations were going well but stops short of offering a time line for completion. However. a global DLA Piper partner's conference in May could lead to a more definitive time frame... "All I can say is our relationship with DLA P...

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