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Cutlers Lawyers Archive

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The Anomalously Transparent Mud Review; Mallesons Lifts Pay Freeze

31 March 2010

We reported yesterday the rumour that AAR recently informed staff that frozen pay would be thawed as of July 1. If true, this move would bring it into line with its competitor Blake Dawson. We went...

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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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Rumour: Blake Dawson Votes on Ashurst Merger, Merger to Proceed

31 August 2011

The Blake Dawson partnership met and voted on a proposal to merge with London Silver Circle firm Ashurst on 20 August and the proposal was approved, if our source is to be believed. The passage of ...

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Clayton Utz “Whorebags” & “SCUM”; More on the “Trench” Saga

22 October 2009

Thanks to the excellent work of an anonymous Clayton Utz spy: Re Michael Mitchell The smh reported today that "...Mr Mitchell claimed the treatment he experienced was the ''product of a 'culture of harassment' that existed in his work group.Staff were ''encouraged to employ humour, often inappropriate and sexual in nature, and that this humour was condoned by management." Readers of the AFR might query whether this humour "often inappropriate and sexual in nature" was confined to Michael's group (known as SCUM???). A few months after Michael was fired from CU's Sydney office in 2007 the AFR published the following article in Hearsay: which discusses the Facebook group "...the Clayton Utz. Dirty Blvd group "Clayton Utz. Workplace Relations (Sydney). Whorebags." Does your firm have a...

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No Deloitte Redundancies as Pay Freeze is Announced

14 May 2009

Unlike KPMG, Ernst & Young and PwC, which have made hundreds of workers redundant, Deloitte has so far managed to avoid any major sackings. Whether this is a result of charity from Deloitte man...

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Premature Evacuation; DLA Phillips Fox Decimated By Mass Defections Pre-Merger

11 March 2011

Both the DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox partnerships confirmed last week that the vote to merge had been successful and that DLA Piper would officially arrive on 1 May 2011.  This means that 75% o...

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Mallesons Sydney Treats Partners to Harbour Dinner at One-Hat Restaurant

25 July 2011

Two weeks ago, Mallesons CEP Robert Milliner donned his Gandalf wizard's staff to prophesise that there were "choppy waters ahead", despite the firm posting higher turnover and contemplating a lucr...

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(No) End in Sight; Clayton Utz Suffers MORE Painful Blows

20 April 2010

Here at the Firm Spy, we tend to take delight in the misfortune of greedy partnerships, especially those who we consider mistreat junior staff when times are tough. During the GFC, for example,...

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Fresh Claims of Clayton Utz Graduate Redundancies

10 July 2009

It emerged earlier in the week that hard-up Latvians, unable to procure a traditional bank loan, can now pledge their soul as security for a revolutionary loan scheme pioneered by the Kontora Loan ...

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Bakers Juniors Lament Pay/Conditions as Rumours of ‘Secret Packages’ Emerge

9 September 2010

Things may be coming to a head in Baker & McKenzie's Melbourne office.  First, back in the pre-GFC glory days, the firm snapped up a lease on some fancy new offices while apparently still payi...

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