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Allen and Overy Archive

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KPMG Rumour: Up to 300 More Redundancies?

18 June 2009

As KPMG staff head to the Poo Polls in the next few days, the latest rumour floating about the office is apparently that, if partners are unable to implement the planned leave of absence/4-day week...

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50% Turnover Year on Year: KPMG Transaction Services Team Labelled “A Joke”

15 November 2011

It makes you wonder. If the ground is falling out from under a particular team and staff within that team are watching their utilisation plummet, there's no real business case to replace staffers w...

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Cruel Twist; Clayton Utz Unpaid Leave of Absence Followed by Pay Freeze

26 May 2009

With questions still being asked about Clayton Utz's conduct in relation to the pay freeze uncovered by the Firm Spy, we can today report that, at least for some Clayton Utz staff, it came on the b...

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Mallesons Bloodlust; Employee Hearts Sink Over “Anemic” Pay Rises

5 July 2010

To have the ticker to pump decent pay rises into employee hearts and minds, partners must have enough blood money in the bank to share. That, or the promise or reasonable certainty of money to come...

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DLA Piper Neo-Darwinism: Growth Through Attrition & Survival of the Slimmest

12 May 2011

In case you missed it, DLA Piper's second in charge of international operations, a Mr Andrew Darwin, has made a staggeringly ambitious growth target for his new-look firm. We couldn't confirm his l...

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Gilbert + Tobin, Telstra & the Fixed-Fee Billable Unit

4 February 2010

We reported last week the rumour that Mallesons might need to prepare for an exodus of lawyers, in particular from its Melbourne office, in light of the emergence of a new Gilbert + Tobin office in the city.  In response to that post we received the following comments from an anonymous (ostensibly a Mallesons) spy: Firm Spy is always good for a laugh. If only you guys had the balls to apply the blow torch to Gilbert & Tobin the way you do to other firms. You read like a PR outfit for G&T. It’s not even subtle. Clearly our friend missed the berating we gave Danny Gilbert over his use of the word "sanguine". In any event, we're always keen to moderate any biases in our reportage, so this got us digging around for some dirt on G+T. Thankfully, two anonymous tips have come...

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Former Minter Ellison Partner Simon Alroe Creates Blog Site

29 September 2009

Recently de-equitised Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe, the subject of an apparent Survivor-style 'voting off the island', has created his very own blog. Alroe, who the Sunshine Coast Daily re...

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Punjabi (Pw)MC Mark Johnson Offshores More Australian PwC Jobs

18 March 2010

At a time when major international corporate firms are creating a presence in Australia, it is something of an omen that international accounting heavyweight PricewaterhouseCoopers is rumoured to be actively seeking to move some of its work to affiliate offices in locations with favourable exchange rates. The end result of this is one of two things: the client gets charged less for the same work; or the PwC partnership forces the client to pay the same for work that in fact costs less and retains extra profit. Our guess is that the latter is what is happenening. Thanks very much to the anonymous PwC spy who sent us the following comments: Howdy Firmspy. Thought you might be interested in this. I have received word that PwC is looking to target a minimum of 20% of persona...

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How Much Do They Earn? Freehills Partner Salaries Exposed

9 December 2010

Over the last few months, the PR teams at a couple of major law firms have taken to emailing Firm Spy with various propaganda media releases ostensibly aimed at generating positive media sentiments...

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Corrs Closes Doors: Gold Coast Office Closure

25 July 2008

In contrast to its graduate recrutiment page, which heralds to prospective graduates that 'Corrs opens Doors', Corrs Chambers Westgarth today loudly shut the doors to its Gold Coast Office. This mo...

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