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Rumour: Sacked AAR Secretary “Received Permission” To Access External Emails

25 May 2011

In our most recent AllensGate post we wrote the following: We understand that on 4 April 2011, a firm-wide AAR email was sent relating to the personal use of AAR email and reiterating all other f...

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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...

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Rumour; Deloitte Voicemail Reveals Drug Dealers Deleted

31 July 2009

The Firm Spy has been very critical of Deloitte in recent months. We thought that the massive growth in partnership profits against the backdrop of rumours of cutbacks, a pay freeze and continu...

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Deloitte Loses Audit Seniors While Non-Equity Partners Score Bonuses

8 March 2010

Thanks to the Deloitte spy who sent us the following comments over the weekend: Deloitte Private in Sydney has lost another 2 audit seniors. The rate at which Deloitte Private loses audit seniors is phenominal and partners, including cluster lead, Michael Kaplan, are living in a sense of denial in which they state that "nothing is wrong". Could it be that the entire Deloitte culture says lets screw staff with all we've got for the enrichment of the partner group? I love how Giam Swiegers, CEO, defends his and the partner greed by referring to the fact that at Deloitte people are motivated by being engaged, not being paid bonuses. Well then why do the partners get bonuses? Recent access to a file that should probably have been confidential reveals that non equity partners bonus in "t...

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Focus: Blake Dawson Emerges as Major International Merger Target

8 June 2011

We continue to hear noise that Blake Dawson is on the phone to firms abroad. As we've already reported, rumours abound that Blake Dawson has been talking to London firm Herbert Smith about the pros...

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Firm Spy Remuneration Survey – Minter Ellison Lawyer Salaries

6 November 2009

Err... it seems there is ALOT of interest in lawyer remuneration across the firms. The Firm Spy has experienced a major upswing in traffic this week, while our weekly newsletter subscribers have ro...

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Wayne’s World: Norton Rose Canberra Office Rumoured To Face Closure

23 August 2011

There was plenty of fanfare last week as Norton Rose announced that Don "Dubya" Boyd would be replaced as the firm's Australian figurehead by Wayne Spanner. 'It's Wayne's World, Wayne's World - par...

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28,000 Law Students & Growing: We Ask The Council of Law Deans Whether Australia is Over-Lawyered

2 November 2011

In case our position still isn't clear, we'll say it again here. We think there are too many law students and too many law graduates in Australia. This very issue to our minds gives rise to the str...

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AAR Loses Head (Count) After Short Jab, Upper Cut & Knockout Blow

7 July 2010

In a fistful of cinematic scenes that won't soon be forgotten, boxing underdog Rocky Balboa took viewers  literally step  by step through the elaborate training regimen that prepared him for hi...

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Clayton Utz Launches iPhone App: Clients Groan, Nobody Cares

12 October 2011

Clutz have apparently just launched a new iPhone app: just what you always wanted, right?  Not so for this spy: I am absolutely astounded to have received an invitation to download "pocketCU"...

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