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Corrs Chambers Westgarth Archive

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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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Selling The Drama; AAR Boss Michael Rose Expects ‘Flat’ Market

21 October 2009

When you've got a Firm Spy Downlow Medal swinging around your neck, you need to quickly make comments in the media to allay employee fears of a partnership rip off. And so, it is no surprise that we read comments from Allens Arthur Robinson chief executive partner Michael Rose in ALB which very much sells the drama of the GFC, necessitating the excrutiatingly tight partnership antics already witnessed: It is our sense that activity across the market as a whole is down. We would expect that things will stay relatively flat or decline further over the next 12 months. So Mike, does this mean the pay freeze is here to stay? This expectation that things will "stay relatively flat" is difficult to stomach given that AAR is widely rumoured to have out-performed rivals since the GFC began....

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Yammer Hammer; Deloitte Ambassadors Give Grads “Authentic Experience”

8 March 2011

Deloitte head of people and performance, Alec Bashinsky, last week revealed that the firm would be calling on staff to act as firm ambassadors to graduates considering a career with Deloitte. It is...

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More Partners Implicated in AllensGate:”THERE IS SOME MAJOR SH*T GOING DOWN”

16 February 2011

The AllensGate saga continues and things are about to get a whole lot "muddier". Firstly, some corroboration for Monday's story, at least in outline.  An anonymous Allens spy shouted this alarming...

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Ex-Clutz are Ex-Mates: Clutz’s War on Mateship

27 October 2010

As if the firm's recent ban on 'mate' and other office colloquialisms wasn't bad enough, it seems that the firm is now 'pressuring' staff not to socialise with former employees.  Thanks to the ano...

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Savage Garden; Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles Litigation Crisis Deepens

9 March 2011

The Clayton Utz website is a bit like the Firm Spy's backyard - out of date and underloved. We took a tour of the Clutz internet offering several days ago and noticed that the firm's Litigation &am...

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Manhunt Update: Swindling Ex-Minters CFO Arrested at Sydney Airport

4 October 2011

We just received word from an anonymous tipster that wanted fugitive Craig Raneberg has been arrested at Sydney Airport.  Here's the tip: Craig Raneberg (ex-CFO Minter Ellison Adelaide) was c...

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Aussies Earning Big Bucks Overseas Despite Domestic Economic Prosperity

13 October 2010

We spied an interesting article in the AFR last week profiling the huge dollars Aussies are currently earning abroad. We were particularly struck by the reported figures because whereas Australia i...

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No Thaw in Sight; Mallesons Pay Freeze Set to Stay

20 November 2009

We received the following insight from an anonymous Mallesons spy last night: When the Mallesons pay freeze was introduced it was implemented on the basis that it would be reviewed in December against how the firm was tracking against budget. In recent centre by centre reports on a detailed employee survey (the Vibe) Mallesons undertakes every two years, presenters were at pains to point out that the firm was NOT tracking towards budget, with the hidden implication being that the pay freeze will continue. This is of course news to those lawyers in some sections who are exceeding their budget consistently and are being paid well below people in other firms who get to go home at 6 each night. 6pm?! Who leaves the office at that unreasonably early hour? Certainly not Mallesons lawyers....

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Rumour; Mallesons & Clifford Chance Set to Merge ‘Within Weeks’

15 October 2009

For those still questioning the response received from Mallesons by our friends at The New Lawyer yesterday, we invite you to read the very compelling, very believable anonymous tip received by us last night: The rumour circulating that a formal merger between Mallesons and Clifford Chance is set to be announced within weeks is true. The Mallesons board has successfully executed a voluntary redundancy program through which the firm managed to rid itself of proportionately very high number of senior associates. This has come on the back of the firm executing a carefully orchestrated plan to (as the board calls it)  "retire-manage" - that is, to encourage ageing partners to exit the firm. These are not coincidences, but rather the strategic means by which the firm has been able to ...

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