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WA Bar Archive

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The Freehills Freeze; Cold Days Ahead as Staff Pay is Frozen

20 March 2009

After months of redundancies and cutbacks in mid-tier firms and below, it seems that the global financial chill is spreading upwards.  After many requests for updates on the 'big three' -- Malleso...

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Former Deacons & Minter Ellison Lawyer Melissa Hammett Bemoans Online Dating

24 November 2009

[EDIT - thanks to the spy who informed us that Melissa no longer works at Minter Ellison, having moved first to Deacons (working in Construction underneath partner Keith Redenbach), before taking a...

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Allens Arthur or Martha? Confusion Reigns over Voluntariness of AAR Redundancies

6 July 2009

We received two emails last week from Allens spies who insisted that some of the 114 people populating The List (voluntary redundancies) emailed by Michael Rose around the firm on Thursday were in...

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Lowering the Bar; Clayton Utz Makes Junior “Senior” Associate

27 April 2010

In the wake of the defection of 14 Clayton Utz partners to A&O earlier this year, we reported that a group of Clayton Utz lawyers met confidentially to discuss the demands they would place on t...

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Slopping Out: Mallesons Fail Jail Now Facing Tenancy Squeeze in Melbourne

6 July 2009

It was reported in May that female inmates at an Irish penitentiary were being forced to share over-crowded cells: Thirty female prisoners – including two pregnant inmates – were "crammed" int...

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Mallesons Exec Kate ‘Busta’ Rimer Tells Staff Not to Look Overseas

13 November 2009

Hypothetical scenario: Imagine you're the number 1 person at your firm in relation to staffing levels. Imagine further that at the very end of the GFC, your firm decided to implement a massive red...

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Blake Dawson Loses One Badcock & Gains One “Sweet” Non-Porn Teen Singer

16 March 2011

You'll recall in 2007 Blake Dawson dropped the "Waldron" from its name as part of a notorious rebranding that saw the firm inexplicably link itself with a gay porn star going by the same name. Blak...

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Spring Semester XXX Road Trip: Blake Dawson’s Lurid Filmography Exposed

9 June 2011

Step inside a world of tight leather pants, gold-plated neck-chains, sweat, body-odour and a cast of fun boys. Film budgets are low, timeframes are tight and performance anxiety can kill a career i...

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More Graduate Statistics; Vacation Clerk to Graduate Progression Percentage

16 September 2009

We thought it was worth replicating two of this week's posts to calculate the odds that a vacation clerk will be offered a graduate job among major Australian law firms. That is, by contrasting 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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