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Banks Archive

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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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MAJOR EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaked Confidential Holding Redlich Board Report Reveals Sick And Sorry Workplace

2 September 2011

National law firm Holding Redlich performance manages staff it hopes will quit the firm by diverting work and making employees feel they are under-performing, according to a confidential r...

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Leaked Freehills WA Graduate Recruitment Email Confirms Scheme Departure

13 August 2009

Let us start by retracting any inference which we may have made in relation to Freehills consultant, and WA Law Society president, Dudley Stow. We commented last week on the irony that Dudley, ...

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Dead Cats Dont Bounce; Minter Ellison Partner Simon Alroe Faces Allegations

7 July 2009

As reported by Roll on Friday: A partner Minter Ellison has apparently been arrested for allegedly harassing a colleague. Simon Alroe, a partner in the firm's Brisbane office, was bailed by the ...

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Clock On; KPMG Workers Set to Work Long Hours as Resources Tighten

15 July 2009

It was with thanks to a courageous KPMG insider that we reported last week that the venerated Poo Poll resulted in an emphatic assent to the 'Temporary Work Arrangements'. We will now give you the ...

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PwC Admits Offering Graduates Cash to Defer

29 July 2009

It is always nice to hear when a rumour that we exclusively report is subsequently confirmed by the firm in question. And so, it is with a sense of pride that we can today report confirmation of a ...

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Ex-Deacons, Minter Ellison Lawyer Melissa Hammett Makes Contact

16 December 2009

Attractive. Intelligent. Successful. Funny. Endearing. These are but a few of the adjectives that we would use describe the delightful, yet surprisingly unlucky-in-love former Deacons/Minters la...

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New Details Emerge about Clayton Utz Involuntary Leave of Absence

19 June 2009

We revealed in May rumours that Clayton Utz had asked some of its employees to take an involuntary leave of absence, only to subsequently slap a firm-wide pay freeze on them. Yesterday an anonym...

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Wearing the KPMG Wire; Partnership Pay Talk Caught on Tape as Audit Loses Bonus AGAIN

8 July 2010

If it is true that we have "turned the corner" on the GFC, and firms now forecast significant growth over the next financial year, the case for junior employees to receive decent pay rises this yea...

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I Can’t Believe it’s Not: A PwC Pay Freeze

13 May 2009

Whereas other corporate services firms, such as Minters, Freehills and Allens, have been forthright in announcing firm-wide pay-freezes, global accounting giant PwC has quietly gone about implement...

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