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You CanNOT Be Serious! Sadler v DLAPH – DLA Piper Embroiled in $630,000 Harassment Claim

27 June 2011

Several weeks ago we reported the allegation that a DLA Piper partner in the firm's Brisbane office had been on a "rampage of bullying". A spy noted the irony that DLA Piper would be accused of bul...

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LOOK AT MOI! Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1st Lady Kath Day, The Filum & Model Anna Denton

16 April 2012

When last we wrote about the Corrs Chambers Westgarth Chief Executve Partner, John Denton, we referred to a perplexing article from our friends at ALB which pointed to a plausible connection betwee...

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KPMG Staff Score iPhone 4 as Sexual Harassment Allegations Emerge

10 November 2010

We read with palpable disbelief the news reported yesterday that frontline KPMG auditors, and others, have been on the receiving end of the firm's greatest act of charity since, well, ever. Acco...

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Deloitte’s Partnership Voicemail Messages Spiral Out of Control

9 October 2009

Probably the Firm Spy's least favourite Big4 accounting-firm partner, Deloitte Chief Executive Giam Swiegers, has apparently dealt another cruel blow to already disillusioned staff. But before w...

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Herbert Smith Looks @ Blake Dawson For Major International Merger

20 May 2011

A few of you might have seen the speculation reported by The Lawyer that following the lead of other major City firms Norton Rose, Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance,  Herbert Smith is currentl...

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Dollar Bills, Are You For Sha-Ria(L)? Aussie Firms Flock to Islamic Finance

3 June 2010

NB - FIRM SPY IS NON-DENOMINATIONAL Last week our friends at Lawyers Weekly published an interesting article entitled Islamic finance:the next big thing?. In the opening grab, author Claire Chaf...

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Deloitte’s Rumoured Secret-Sackings Intensify as GFC Strikes

9 June 2009

Ever since we revealed rumours that suggested Deloitte has been underhandedly managing people out of the firm, rather than forthrightly announcing redundancies, we have received a flood of emails f...

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Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame Morphs into Firm-Wide PR Disaster

29 May 2009

Two days ago the Firm Spy commented on the sick timing of Minter Ellison's decision to publicise its alumni network 'Remember Me'. Of all the times in history in which P&D Coordinator Kerrie Bo...

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Baking Bread; No Pay Freezes in Sight at Baker & McKenzie

22 April 2009

Whereas top-ties firms Freehills, Allens Arthur Robinson and Minter Ellison have each now enforced a firm-wide pay freeze, it has emerged today that international heavyweight Baker & McKenzie i...

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“Opaque” Minter Ellison Billing Narrations Provoke Calls for Costing Change

22 October 2009

With a paradigm shift moving away from the billable unit in the offing, the following anonymous comments received from an anonymous Minter Ellison spy yesterday will no doubt add fuel to the fire: ... the vagaries of Minter Ellison billing narrations are probably a major part of what has provoked the corporate community to ask for wholesale changes to billing structures, such as fixed costs models. ... what on earth is "strategy advice"? Is it a "strategic" bathroom break in which a partner ponders how best to fudge his time sheet? These opaque narrations should be queried by corporate clients who should also demand a shift away from a model that allows partners to record seven-figure salaries with such ease... Do you have a favourite narration to get you out of a "low-billing" day...

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