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DLA Piper Archive

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REDACTED: Defections, Claire Winton Burn & Trust in Clayton Utz ‘Relationship Contracting’

6 August 2010

Occasionally we get it wrong with our stories and this is one such instance. No, we don't think the content we previously published was inaccurate, it was just way too personal and irrelevant. We agree with the comments from Marco below and have thus withdrawn the post. Send the Firm Spy your news and views!

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CALL FOR GOSSIP – Involuntary Annual Leave, Xmas Parties & Clayton Utz Sex Dolls

8 December 2010

A major issue for many of our readers at this time last year was an obligation to take valuable annual leave in the Christmas/New Year period. Miserly corporate partners, hiding beneath the veneer ...

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Wayne’s World: Norton Rose Canberra Office Rumoured To Face Closure

23 August 2011

There was plenty of fanfare last week as Norton Rose announced that Don "Dubya" Boyd would be replaced as the firm's Australian figurehead by Wayne Spanner. 'It's Wayne's World, Wayne's World - par...

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Allens Arthur Robinson Lures Graduates with Hollow Promises of International Travel

4 June 2009

Not only does Allens Arthus Robinson stubbornly refuse to offer graduates a decent rotation system, but it seems that the graduates' original decision to work with the firm may have been influenced...

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Enter The WA Dragon: How The Clifford Chance/Mallesons Merger Rests On One Man

8 September 2010

The prospect of a Mallesons/Clifford Chance merger is a topic that has been utterly done to death by news media in the last year, including by us. We regularly receive updated intelligence on the s...

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Blimey! Firm Spy Rebuked by Blake Dawson Lawyer

21 August 2009

In response to our story profiling the Blake Dawson pay-rise-pay-freeze, which we thought was less about 'focus' and more about 'f**k-us', we received the following email: The source who said no B...

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Update on Freehills Leading Practices Review & Some Housekeeping

20 May 2011

First up, we made a decision last night that all comments now have to be moderated before they get published. We originally required moderation and subsequently decided to allow people who had rece...

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UPDATE DLA Piper Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back With ChewBarker

13 July 2011

In March we exclusively broke the news that DLA Phillips Fox had suffered an embarrasing premature evacuation in its Brisbane office. Just weeks before the firm was set to complete its merger with ...

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EXCLUSIVE: PwC Pulls Jobs Trigger With Shock Graduate DeTerring Campaign

23 November 2011

What's the value of changing plans? It's a simple enough question. If plans are changed, what do you get out of it? Where is the value? It's a question several PwC grads asked themselves earlier th...

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How Much Do Freehills Partners Earn – AFR Law Firm Profit Survey

22 September 2009

Thanks to AFR for the following profile: Partner Remuneration Survey Performance-based, full equity partnership. Partner Pay 2008/09 The top partners are said to draw $1,900,000.00 after bonu...

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