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Baker and McKenzie Archive

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Talking the Talk at Henry Davis York; Times are Great!

15 December 2008

GFC? What GFC? Like Clayton Utz and Freehills in recent days, Henry Davis York has come out with comments which are either a calculated effort to allay lawyer employment fears, or a genuine indi...

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SETTLED: Rumoured Six-Figure Deal Ends ClizzoBridgetz as Manwhore Email Surfaces

28 November 2011

Australia's most rotten legal sex affair - ClizzoBridgetz -  has finally drawn to a close. Last week's settlement will mark an end to a chapter that has staggered even the most veteran legal...

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AAR’s Michael Rose Talks Down Money Focus… As Revenue Reportedly Soars

1 October 2010

We couldn't help but seize upon the following comments from Allens Arthur Robinson Chief Executive Partner Michael Rose in a recent SMH article (which we regard as yet another self-congratulatory i...

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Deloitte’s Rumoured Secret-Sackings Intensify as GFC Strikes

9 June 2009

Ever since we revealed rumours that suggested Deloitte has been underhandedly managing people out of the firm, rather than forthrightly announcing redundancies, we have received a flood of emails f...

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Where(s) the Fox at? Update on the Australian Integration of DLA Piper

14 April 2010

The emergence of key international firms in the domestic market has been a key development in 2010. We’ve seen the merger of Deacons with UK silver circle firm Norton Rose and the arrival of Alle...

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The Denis Brock Crock; Clifford Chance Defector Just Visiting Mallesons Best Friends

5 August 2010

We went looking for some news on Mallesons last night and stumbled onto an interesting piece. A cursory search on Google news revealed no less than three articles featuring a jubilant Mallesons boa...

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KPMG Announces Redundancies; 99 Sackings Take Total to 200 Lay Offs

8 April 2009

It is with a sense of regret that the Firm Spy, cap-in-hand, confirms a prediction we made off-handedly in February this year. On 14 February, we wrote a short post updating readers about the ph...

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How Much Do Blake Dawson Partners Earn? AFR Law Firm Profit Survey

22 September 2009

Thanks to the AFR for the following profile: Partnership Remuneration System Performance-based across eight levels, up from six, with a bonus. Partnership Pay 2008/09 The lowest level partner...

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PwC (Optional) Unpaid Leave of Absence Initiative Receives Approval

16 June 2009

PwC today announced that 3500 staff agreed to participate in its 'I Cant Believe It's Not: A PwC Pay Freeze' initiative. Chief Executive Mark Johnson said in today's AFR: This is one of the better...

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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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