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Best in the West! KPMG Hoards ‘Good’ Banned Employees

25 August 2009

In the current edition of BRW, KPMG national managing partner James Allt-Graham made the following comments: We've gone to great lengths to hoard good staff... one of the realities in the medium t...

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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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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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Simon Alroe & The Jeopardy of the Minter Ellison Thawing Pay Freeze

15 January 2010

We reported in late December the revelation that Minter Ellison was intending to lift its pay freeze. At the time, we thought that the thaw was dubious, however, because only particular staff would be given good news in the "letter notifying them of the result of their review". Sounds a lot like Minters & Chief Executive Partner John Weber only intend to increase the wages of those members of staff it is fearful of losing. Over the break the Firm Spy received some disastrous gossip for the small few who genuinely hope to get a pay rise after the review. This from an anonymous - and apparently high-ranking - Minters spy: recently exiled Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe has had the criminal charges against him dropped. This must be one hell of a slap in the face to his former...

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One Day Out of Life; AllensGate Partners Forget About The Bad Times, Oh Yeah!

4 March 2011

HOLIDAY!! CELEBRATE!! If you're in a partnership that is facing allegations of possibly the deepest conflict-of-interest involving a law firm in Australia's legal history it's time for the good t...

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How Much Do They Earn? Freehills Partner Salaries Exposed

9 December 2010

Over the last few months, the PR teams at a couple of major law firms have taken to emailing Firm Spy with various propaganda media releases ostensibly aimed at generating positive media sentiments...

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Fail 2 Subjects & You’re ‘Fired’; PwC Introduces CA Policy

10 November 2009

In response to a recent post profiling suspicious survey results suggesting PWC is a 'top employer', we received the following comments from an anonymous PWC spy in relation to a revised Chartered Accountancy study policy: ... There are a lot of extremely pissed of employees at PwC feeling a little bit like indentured slaves that get dictated everything. [First] a ... pay cut to take ‘flexible’ leave. [Second]That there is no overtime system anymore (not that TOIL was awesome, but at least it was something). now CA. This firm just does not stop - graduates stay away and make sure you ask questions about how long your are locked in for if you want to do CA! PwC can now fire you if you fail 2 subjects. It’s all under the ‘policy’. Payraises were so bad this year that 2nd year...

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“Unacceptable Workplace Behaviour”: NSW Law Society Responds to Holding Redlich Starve Cycle

9 September 2011

A huge number of people have now read the exclusive report we published last week offering an insight into the toxic working environment at national mid-tier law firm Holding Redlich. We've had man...

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King & Wood Mallesons Responds to The F***ing Oath Debacle as Partner Purge Rumours Abound

12 April 2012

We understand that the weekly K&W Mallesons partnership lunch that took place in recent days was a funny one indeed. We're hearing from multiple sources that some of the Australian partners too...

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‘Cloud Computing’; Mallesons Cut-Backs Send Firm Technology into Hell

28 August 2009

With a voluntary redundancy programme presently afoot, it seems that Mallesons partners are looking for quicker ways to cut costs and technology is the clear victim. Earlier this month, Malleson...

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