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Billion Dollar Bull Dust! Giam “Germ” Swiegers Shouts Staffers Day Off After “Execution” FAIL

17 May 2012

With the ink barely dry on his gutwrentchingly poor decision to warn sh*t-scared staffers that "you execute, or you're executed", Deloitte CEO Giam (pronounced "Germ") Swiegers realised that someth...

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Mallesons Facebook Competition DISLIKE; Social Media Foray DISLIKE; Graduate Recruitment DISLIKE

27 May 2011

A big congratulations to the Mallesons PR team for embracing social media in its graduate recruitment drive. The firm is really getting with the times: we can just see baby boomer partners all over...

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KPMG Advisory Suffers Employee Exodus as Deloitte Tax Looks For 7th Signal

6 April 2010

In recent weeks we have reported the rumour that Big4 accounting firms PwC and Deloitte are being crippled by a reported flood of employee departures. These departures, we speculated, are a result ...

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Pay Run of the Milliner; Mallesons Announces Christmas Bonus

27 November 2009

We reported last week that Mallesons' pay freeze is apparently showing no signs of thawing. This remains true, despite encouraging news received earlier today that the firm is giving staff a Christmas bonus, of sorts. Thanks to the anonymous Mallesons spy for the following information: Warlock Milliner has just delivered some long overdue good news - we're getting some money out of the partnership and just in time for Christmas! Not that it is very much, mind you. "3% of your wage" in the form of a bonus in the "December pay run". Is this the "pay run of the milliner"? It is interesting that the partners have chosen to carefully calibrate the bonus as a one-off payment, rather than a more permanent increase in our wages, annualised in each monthly pay.  This means that when the ...

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Clayton Utz Bans Graduates/Seasonal Clerks From Using Term “Mate”

19 October 2010

It has unbelievably been months since we have published anything substantial on embattled national law firm Clayton Utz. So it was with arms wide open (like embracing a forgotten mate) that we welc...

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‘Walk Out Or Be Pushed Out’; PWC Partnership Hotel Bunk Bed Frivolity

23 November 2009

Thanks to the anonymous PWC spy who sent us the following, bunk-bed share-room PWC partner info: To sum things up at PwC the whole firm is a mess. The culture and mood is so bad people are walking...

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UPDATE: Minter Ellison “Crashes” Onto Dept of Immigration Panel Minus Immigration Lawyers

7 June 2011

You'd be surprised if you read some of the emails that wind up in our inbox. We get everything from Russian spammers asking us to "send us metal products" to detailed information about very salacio...

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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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Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Garrett Williams Enters CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2012

6 February 2012

Not to be confused with his (almost) namesake - a self-important weasel from The Office famously known for overestimating his allure to members of the opposite sex - Garrett Williams, a junior lawy...

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Exclusive – New Leaked Clayton Utz Email Reveals Cold Summer Ahead for Most

17 December 2009

This is an interesting one. We could be off the mark here, but on our reading of the below leaked email from Clayton Utz mind speaker Chief Executive Partner David Fagan, there was almost an expect...

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