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Blake Dawson High Anxiety @ BHP Situation as 1st Years Lose on Pay

9 April 2010

On March 9 this year Blake Dawson announced on its website that partner David Williamson had been appointed Chief Legal Counsel at BHP. In that announcement, the following comments were made by inf...

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Mallesons Moves to Fixed-Fee Arrangements with Major Client Telstra

25 March 2010

There has been much talk in recent times about how, as a consequence of the GFC, law firms will be required to change the way they operate to adapt to the needs of clients. Clients, it is said, are sick of incurring extravagant legal costs when, for a fraction of the price, they can employ their own legal teams for a great deal of the day-to-day work they require. The in-house lawyers, for their own part, tend to be remunerated much more favourably than their junior private brethren, while the clients themselves drastically reduce legal bills. By way of adaption, clients have been calling on firms to consider alternative fee arrangements, including fixed-fee arrangements, as we emerge from the GFC. In this regard, mid-tier firm Gilbert + Tobin has been cavalier. Danny Boy Gilbert ...

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Chocolate Biscuits GONE Following Cuts in PWC Discretionary Spend

26 October 2009

Thanks to the PWC spy who sent us the following comments in response to our recent story that some PWC are rumoured to have been told to start looking for a new job: I also work at PwC and hav...

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Mallesons World Cup Babes, A&O Defector David Poddar & Jana “Drama” Pittman

28 June 2010

Congratulations to the AFR legal affairs team for their excellent work last Friday. For those of you who missed it, we suggest you get your hands on last Friday's AFR and read the annual Partnershi...

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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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Charm Offensive; Freehills Lures Seasonal Clerks With Booze-Fuelled Parties

13 July 2009

You might have thought that a GFC, a  pay freeze, threats of eliminating casual-clothes Friday, and the creation of a new position to preserve partnership equity points would compel top-tier law f...

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Details Emerge of DLA Phillips Fox Redundancy Package

4 August 2009

In response to our report last week that Mallesons Sorcerer Partner Robert Milliner is apparently thrusting objectionably low voluntary redundancy packages under the noses of anxious staff, we rece...

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Rumour: Partner Tony Wassaf Knocks the Jones Daylights out of AAR?

25 August 2010

In early September 2009 our friends at ALB reported that Jones Day was intending to build its Sydney office into a "full service offering". To achieve this, the firm recruited the head of Freehills...

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Mallesons Sydney Treats Partners to Harbour Dinner at One-Hat Restaurant

25 July 2011

Two weeks ago, Mallesons CEP Robert Milliner donned his Gandalf wizard's staff to prophesise that there were "choppy waters ahead", despite the firm posting higher turnover and contemplating a lucr...

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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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