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Arnold Bloch Liebler Archive

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EXCLUSIVE: makingcareerNONSENSE – Corrs Chambers Westgarth Embroiled in $500k Grad Harrassment Suit

31 May 2011

Earlier this year, our friends at ALB awarded Corrs Chambers Westgarth the Gold Employer of Choice 2011. We're not sure what this means exactly, but it sounds impressive and the firm certainly agre...

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Norton Rose Partner Michael Tooma Disharmoniously Defends Current Bullying Laws

4 November 2010

As many of our readers working in employment law are doubtlessly by now aware, the Victorian Government recently announced potential changes to workplace laws that would create tougher penalties fo...

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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; DLA Merger Talks Intensify Amid Absence of “Financials”

17 March 2010

We reported in August 2009, in a post entitled "DLA Phillips Fox(t)rot; Formal Merger DLA Piper Sought", that national mid-tier firm DLA Phillips Fox was seeking an early 2010 formal financial integration with DLA Piper. In the current edition of BRW, incoming DLA Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland sheds some light on the prospects of a full merger: After just three weeks in the role, most recently managing partner of DLA Piper's Dubai office, has been forced to defend the Australian firm's merger talks with his former firm... Holland said negotiations were going well but stops short of offering a time line for completion. However. a global DLA Piper partner's conference in May could lead to a more definitive time frame... "All I can say is our relationship with DLA P...

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The “Look & Feel” of Blake Dawson – Wikipedia Page Hijacked AGAIN

21 April 2010

You'll recall that in the wake of firm-wide redundancies in March 2009, in which the firm laid off 89 staff, the Blake Dawson Wikipedia page was hijacked. The following comments briefly appeared on...

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PwC’s Mark Johnson Picks Up The Panic Phone

29 March 2010

Sometimes we wonder whether corporate firms have an panic-phone with a direct line to BRW. Take the interview with PwC Chief Executive Mark Johnson in the current edition as an example. Johnson, whose worldliness and refinement stems from having: spent his entire working life at PwC... expresses in the interview his dismay at the harsh treatment PwC received in the media last year: On a crisp autumn morning in 2009, PwC's newly appointed chief executive partner Mark Johnson sat in breezy forecourt in Sydney's Darling Harbour, fuming over what he saw as the careless disregard of the business press in reporting gloom day after day; over perceptions about job losses and corporate collapses turned into reality; over the impact of armchair theories on capital works and investment and t...

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Allegation; Freehills Partner Chris Jose ‘Aggressive’ to Former Lawyer Nicole Stransky

3 March 2010

After a fantastic year in 2009 in which the firm won the inaugural Firm Spy Corporate Firm of the Year Award, Freehills has descended into damage control today with a former lawyer alleging the firm discriminated against her. According to The Age, the case highlights the poor working conditions at law firms. The lawyer in question is Nicole Stransky, a 50 year old, who was employed at Freehills from 2006. She claims she was bullied and harassed during 2008 and 2009 to such an extent that she developed suicidal thoughts and a general deterioration in her mental health. It is quite ironic that these allegations are being levelled at the firm, given that Freehills ex-managing partner Peter Butler said at the 2007 Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture (an event honouring the legacy of a ...

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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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The Real Story; Clayton Utz Partners Defect to Magic Circle Rival Allen & Overy

9 February 2010

The Genesis In November last year, the Firm Spy reported that Clayton Utz had appointed Darryl McDonough as the new CEO of the firm. At the time, we reported that McDonough’s appointment very much came to the chagrin of some Clutz partners. An excellent Clutz spy told us the following: “one of the senior lawyers has heard that [Clutz board member] Linda Evans told the partners at the AGM a week ago that she wanted the firm to change its size and shape. Apparently some partners think this is code for dumping 30 to 40 partners”. The Firm Spy understands that Evans was instrumental at board level in securing McDonough’s appointment. Very soon after this appointment, the Firm Spy understands that a number of Clutz partners began looking for employment opportunities with...

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Possum Poo; Mallesons, AAR, Blakes & CGW Scoop Dodgey Corporate Awards

21 May 2010

Other than the coveted suite of Firm Spy awards, including the Down Low Medal, Partner of the Year and Firm of the Year, the various prizes and trophies awarded to corporate Australian firms are a ...

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‘We Will Revolt’; Warning to Blake Dawson Partners on Pay Freeze Fears

1 June 2009

A storm is brewing at leading Australian law firm Blake Dawson over fears that partners will announce a pay freeze later this week. We received the following information from two separate source...

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