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PwC Spy Unleashes Fury at “Greedy” Partnership Indian Offshoring

10 May 2010

Following on from our recent stories profiling the attrition rate at Big4 accounting firms came these comments from an anonymous PWC spy over the weekend: As a PwC audit employee, I can vouch for ...

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Hiring or Firing? Allens Advertises Positions While Redundancy Rumours Circle

6 October 2009

We received this curious offering from an anonymous tipster on the weekend: I wonder if you should ask AAR why in this time of redundancies they are still advertising speculative positions on roll...

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ClizzoBridgetz Update: The Burrito Dick, The Boozy Prelude & The Unintentional Test Case

29 August 2011

ClizzoBridgetz was back in court on Friday for an application by Ms Styles for leave to file an amended statement of claim in the sexual harassment proceedings. Justice McCallum has reserved h...

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Possum Poo; Mallesons, AAR, Blakes & CGW Scoop Dodgey Corporate Awards

21 May 2010

Other than the coveted suite of Firm Spy awards, including the Down Low Medal, Partner of the Year and Firm of the Year, the various prizes and trophies awarded to corporate Australian firms are a ...

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Tick BOOM!!! Citibank Employee Sacked Over Viral Neil Cannon Email Issues Proceedings

19 December 2011

After naming and shaming Neil Cannon, only to become aware days later that his "Tick Boom" email was an elaborate hoax by a computer-hacking colleague, we felt a measure of sympathy for the man. We...

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UPDATE Allens Arthur Robinson Secretaries Exchange Vicious Emails Over Lost Ham Sandwich

9 November 2011

[We've updated the email chain - it is now unsanitised - and included some interesting developments below] There is nothing worse than having the diet-right foresight to bring a tub of yoghurt...

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Leaked KPMG Email Reveals Shocking Staff Over-Utilisation & “Maximum Assurance”

9 June 2010

We reported last week the news that KPMG is in the midst of a major outflow of skilled workers, in particular from audit. Not to mention the very troubling loss of the MONTE CARLOS. Today we bui...

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JOB FEARS: 500 BDO Staffers Face Unemployment as BDO VIC/NSW Licence Pulled

12 March 2012

If BDO goes into administration on Monday, there will be a lot of good people unemployed.[Anonymous former BDO partner, AFR 10/3/12] Almost one year to the day that Firm Spy first reported the rum...

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The Real Story: AAR Ditches “Robinson” Branding in Favour of Allens Linklaters “Alliance”

25 April 2012

When we awoke on Monday morning to see the leaked email sent by AAR CEP Michael Rose to the firm's staffers, we nearly spat our cornflakes over the computer screen. Seriously. How could AAR - a fir...

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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; DLA Merger Talks Intensify Amid Absence of “Financials”

17 March 2010

We reported in August 2009, in a post entitled "DLA Phillips Fox(t)rot; Formal Merger DLA Piper Sought", that national mid-tier firm DLA Phillips Fox was seeking an early 2010 formal financial integration with DLA Piper. In the current edition of BRW, incoming DLA Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland sheds some light on the prospects of a full merger: After just three weeks in the role, most recently managing partner of DLA Piper's Dubai office, has been forced to defend the Australian firm's merger talks with his former firm... Holland said negotiations were going well but stops short of offering a time line for completion. However. a global DLA Piper partner's conference in May could lead to a more definitive time frame... "All I can say is our relationship with DLA P...

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