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Slater Gordon Archive

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No Second Chance at Clifford Chance

9 January 2009

News just to hand.  Clifford Chance has become the first Magic Circle firm to announce a formal redundancy scheme for 'a number of lawyers'.  An initial round of '70-80' layoffs will be undertake...

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Leaked Freehills WA Graduate Recruitment Email Confirms Scheme Departure

13 August 2009

Let us start by retracting any inference which we may have made in relation to Freehills consultant, and WA Law Society president, Dudley Stow. We commented last week on the irony that Dudley, ...

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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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Slopping Out: Mallesons Fail Jail Now Facing Tenancy Squeeze in Melbourne

6 July 2009

It was reported in May that female inmates at an Irish penitentiary were being forced to share over-crowded cells: Thirty female prisoners – including two pregnant inmates – were "crammed" int...

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CHUCKY LIVES! Minter Ellison CFO Craig Raneberg Admits Pinching $2.3mil Aint Child’s Play

19 March 2012

He very much cast the figure of an avaricious, figure-fudging recluse as he skulked out of the Supreme Court of South Australia last Friday. Downcast, double-chinned, and a long way from the lofty ...

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Firm Spy Remuneration – Mallesons Lawyer Salaries

11 November 2009

Please find below our revised report into Mallesons lawyer salaries. Thankfully, the firm has introduced a sweeping redundancy scheme in between the receipt of many of these responses and today's publication, making it difficult to determine who has submitted the relevant responses and whether they remain at the firm. Of course, we're dealing with a chief executive warlock, so anything is possible! Please let us know if you're worried that we have inadvertently exposed you as an anonymous tipster (of sorts) by sending us your remuneration package details. We still need more people to complete the survey, so by all means continue your great work by filling in the remuneration survey. We will post each of the Big 6 law firms in order of revenue. Mallesons is on the record as sayin...

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Land of the Free? Analysis of Lander & Rogers & the Business Case for Mid-Tier Defection

26 May 2011

Last week we broke the news that Freehills had lost its Melbourne Superannuation team to Lander & Rogers as part of the firm's much-maligned (by us) Leading Practices Review. Yesterday the firm...

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Firm Spy Remuneration Report – Blake Dawson Lawyer Salaries

26 November 2009

It is very clear to us that the Firm Spy Remuneration Report has thus far been a ratings bonanza. Our internet traffic has taken off on (what our favourite special comments person would term) a "se...

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Office Ghost Town; Blakes Partners Score Cheap Computers After Mass Redundancies

7 May 2010

In a deal signed well ahead of the outbreak of the GFC, top-tier firm Blake Dawson decided to move its Melbourne offices from the opulent confines of 101 Collins Street in preference for several fl...

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KPMG’s Perth Tax Division Counts Losses as “Maverick” Underpaid Staff Depart

16 March 2011

It has been a while since we've reported anything on Big 4 accounting firm KPMG; we thought the firm might finally be cleaning its act up. But then we received this: After up to 12 departures (fro...

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