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UPDATE FS Halloween Special: The Wicked Witch of the West, Shine Lawyers’ Erin Brokovich’s $2m Pay Day

1 November 2011

This post won't be published until 1 November 2011, but right now, while we're writing it, it's Halloween. We've got the FS rear-projection 1990's style TV on in the background and the scariest of ...

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A&O Code Red; Freehills Partners Call For Changes to Equity Distributions

17 February 2011

At close of business 2010, if you had asked a legal industry commentator to name the best, most prestigious Australian law firm, chances are they would have said eaither Freehills or Mallesons. The...

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ClizzoBridgetz: Latest Developments in Australia’s Most Rotten Legal Sex Affair

6 July 2011

"Scorned lover". "Whispering campaign". "Locker room banter". "Spading other girls". "Looking for his next victim". "Being such a slut". "Taking advantage of her". "A raving idiot". "She felt haras...

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BABEWATCH: (Minter Ellison?) Lawyer Laura Weston’s FHM Swimsuit Modelling History Exposed

17 February 2012

We first touched on the very serious industry issue of "which law firm has the hottest lawyers" back in July last year when we published the insights of a Melbourne-based pervert. The fellow had a ...

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ANZ Announces Hundreds of Reudundancies After Several Months of Rumoured Hushed Exits

18 January 2012

The year has opened on a gloomy note indeed for those in Australia's financial sector with news earlier this week that ANZ intends to drastically shave headcount. On Tuesday, the cuts got underway ...

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Digging Deeper Reveals Tighter Wad; Freehills’ Executive Counsel

25 May 2009

A spate of rather venomous emails from Freehills lawyers compelled the Firm Spy to do some investigative journalism into the recently announced, yet mysterious, 'executive counsel' role. What is...

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UPDATE; Tenth Partner Allegedly Defects in DLA Phillips Fox Premerger Evacuation

17 March 2011

[ED we received the following anonymous update to yesterday's post (re-posted below) on the mass defection of DLAPH Brisbane partners pre-merger: More chaos at DLAPF with another partner resigning...

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The Reject Shop: Blake Dawson Gives Seasonals a Chance, Then Rejects Them

16 September 2011

With the waistline of major Australian law firms contracting as changes in leverage become more entrenched, conditions are deteriorating for law students across the country. It is not a good time t...

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Fresh Claims of Clayton Utz Graduate Redundancies

10 July 2009

It emerged earlier in the week that hard-up Latvians, unable to procure a traditional bank loan, can now pledge their soul as security for a revolutionary loan scheme pioneered by the Kontora Loan ...

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The “Beast” Who Stole Christmas? AAR’s Ron Fielding & 1-to-1 “Instructions”

6 May 2010

It was a while ago now, but you may recall in late 2008 we reported the alarming news that Allens Arthur Robinson had decided to cancel its Christmas party.At the time, the firm made the following ...

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