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Moore Stephens Archive

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Family Farce; Spotlighting Corrs’ Parental & Flexible Work Policies

19 February 2011

One of the ways that firms on the threshold of "top-tier" status try to lure good quality laterals and graduates is through a point of difference. Be it pay, working hours, work benefits  or a mix...

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If You Fuz You Lose; Masterminding The Clayton Utz/A&O Partnership Defections

16 February 2010

We 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...

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Terminator 4; Deloitte Fires then Hires ‘New Weapon’ to ‘Wage War’

10 June 2009

It has emerged that despite rumours of 'Deloitte deletes' and 'underhanded sackings', Deloitte has found room in its vast offices for new employees. We received the following comments from a Deloit...

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AAR To Thaw Pay Freeze While Mallesons Unloads Annual Leave

30 March 2010

As demonstrated by our current weekly poll, only three top-tier Australian law firms appear to still have pay freezes in place. Since we broke the news that the Blake Dawson partnership needed t...

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‘Falling to Pieces’; KPMG Finds Poo Poll Loophole

26 November 2009

It has been far too long since the Firm Spy has received anything from its (formerly very lively) KPMG spies. Nothing really substantial, in fact, since we broke news that the KPMG Poo Poll had rec...

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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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Corrs Introduces ‘Female Talent Pipeline’

31 March 2009

In an interview in today's Australian Financial Review, mid-tier middleweight Corrs Chambers Westgarth announced an affirmative action policy to help women in the workplace designed '[to help] wome...

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PLT Repayment Schedules @ Top Tier Firms & The Corrs Graduate Rotation Shocker

5 May 2011

Whether you're in an accounting firm or a law firm, a major bone of contention among junior staffers can be the fine print associated with higher learning. A good example is found in our recent pos...

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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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Update; New Claims in Clayton Utz v Michael “Trench” Mitchell Saga

5 March 2010

Short of an earthquake shredding razing its offices, things could probably not get much worse for Clayton Utz right now. A few weeks ago we heard the scandalous details of the defections of over...

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