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Operation Bangkok: Minter Ellison Searches For Missing CFO Craig Raneberg

19 September 2011

The search continues for Minter Ellison's former CFO Craig Raneberg. Alleged to have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the firm's equity partner accounts, Mr Raneberg reportedly...

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Baking Bread; No Pay Freezes in Sight at Baker & McKenzie

22 April 2009

Whereas top-ties firms Freehills, Allens Arthur Robinson and Minter Ellison have each now enforced a firm-wide pay freeze, it has emerged today that international heavyweight Baker & McKenzie i...

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King & Wood Mallesons: The Shape of Things to Come?

28 November 2011

As has been widely reported, Mallesons partners voted last Wednesday to approve the merger with Chinese firm King & Wood.  Not that we thought they'd do otherwise, despite our controversia...

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Incredible Update on AAR Lawyer Salaries & Performance Reviews

19 November 2009

Sounds like some of the figures we reported earlier in the week in the Allens Arthur Highway Robbery Robinson Lawyer Salary Report were off the mark. If you believe the comments of the anonymous AAR spy below, anyhow. The comments about the successful achievement of its "distribution curve", if true, offer the most candid insight into how Allens' partners are using tactical performance management to, at best, reduce lawyer salaries and, at worst, open up the possibility of reduced headcount. The target billable hours published for Allens Arthur Robinson are wrong. Accurate targets are: Law Graduate (unadmitted, equivalent of articled clerk or UK trainee): 4.5 hours ($67k incl superannuation) 1st year Lawyer: 6.1 hours (approx $68K includig superannuation) 2+ Lawyer: 6.5 hours (appro...

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EXCLUSIVE: PwC Pulls Jobs Trigger With Shock Graduate DeTerring Campaign

23 November 2011

What's the value of changing plans? It's a simple enough question. If plans are changed, what do you get out of it? Where is the value? It's a question several PwC grads asked themselves earlier th...

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The Reject Shop: Blake Dawson Gives Seasonals a Chance, Then Rejects Them

16 September 2011

With the waistline of major Australian law firms contracting as changes in leverage become more entrenched, conditions are deteriorating for law students across the country. It is not a good time t...

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Not Foxing! Rumour DLA Piper Will Arrive on 1 January 2011 as Fox Tucker Emerges in SA

2 September 2010

Our friends at ALB delivered a huge scoop yesterday, reporting that the Adelaide office  of DLAPF would merge with specialist Adelaide tax firm Rankine Tucker.  The firm will be called Fox Tucker...

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Lactose Tolerant: Breastfeeding Gong Affirms Clayton Utz’s Commitment to Women

9 September 2011

Beleaguered by the repeated allegations that it is a "hostile place for women to work", not to mention having been striken from the EOWA register as an Employer of Choice for Women, Clayton Utz is ...

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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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EXCLUSIVE – Freehills CEP Gavin Bell Debunks LPR Amid New Departures

18 August 2011

In 2011, we have seen a number of major departures from top-tier law firm and GFC employer of choice - Freehills. In May we broke the news that Freehills had lost its Melbourne-based Superannuation...

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