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Porn Lawyer; Former AAR Lawyer Joins Australian Sex Party

3 November 2009

An incredible story out of AAR today. Former Allens Lawyer, Marianna Leishman, has swapped a legal career for politics, albeit for the Australian Sex Party. As reported by our good friends at Lawyers Weekly: The race for Dr Brendan Nelson's former seat has heated up, with Marianna Leishman - former Allens lawyer-turned-pole-dancer and Australian Sex Party (ASP) candidate - announcing she will swap the law - and the stage - for politics.  Leishman will run for the Bradfield seat at the election in December under the assumed name of Zarha Stardust. The 26-year-old made the announcement at the Erotic Film Festival last week, saying she believes it's time the traditionally conservative seat of Bradfield, situated on Sydney's North Shore, entered the modern era.  Leishman started her c...

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Blake Dawson Redundancies; 89 Sacked Then Advised ‘Tell Colleagues You’re Going Home Sick’

18 March 2009

Following on from the cruel news sent by the Blakes partnership that sackings were imminent, and pursuant to the even crueler revelation that several dozen graduates commenced work with the firm a ...

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Deloitte Calls for “Reallocation of Resources” as Employee Numbers Dwindle

23 March 2010

We received the following comments from an anonymous Deloitte spy in response to our post from earlier in the month when we reported that the Big4 firm was losing audit seniors We invite Deloitt...

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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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Mallesons ‘Fail Jail’; Firm Restructure Gives Useless Lawyers a Second Chance

18 May 2009

In a Firm Spy exclusive, we can today report some big changes at Australian top-tier heavyweight Mallesons Stephen Jaques.  According to one insider, the firm is proposing to scrap its competition...

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Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame; An Alumni Network PR Stunt to Forget

27 May 2009

Just one week after unceremoniously sacking dozens of workers, Minter Ellison has made the nauseatingly ill-timed decision to publicize its alumni network 'Remember Me'. In an article appearing ...

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“Neil Down”; PWC Staff Irked By Indian OffShoring

10 December 2009

This comical, insightful goss from an anonymous PWC spy earlier today: "Neil" down or get taken down. Seems the good news machine at PWC continues spreading propoganda with last week a new entry to the calendar - an internal firm services town hall. these are the poor IT and Operations schleps who are at the beck and call of partners and the oddly named Chief Costs Officer "Neil" Wilson. In an effort to encourage morale Neils summonsed all 500 staff to a dark 3 star hotel ballroom for a 2 hour workshop; what staff were faced with was news that decisions on job offshoring to India would be made before christmas, some bad jokes and attempts at reaching the people and in what one person said was insulting a reference to the fact that even broom sweepers at NASA were as respected as a P...

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Cracks Appearing; Mallesons Chief Executive Partner Cries Poor

3 April 2009

With a proud history as Australia's leading law firm, many have wondered whether the global financial strife, which we recently reported was spreading upwards, is also affecting Mallesons Stephen J...

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2011 Salary Survey Results Part 4: 3+ PQE and Senior Associates

3 November 2011

It's been a long time coming, but there we are: Part 4 of our 2011 Salary Survey.  As you'll recall, we posted parts 1, 2 and 3 in recent months: Part 1: top-tier graduates Part 2: 1-2 year ...

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Survey Gives PwC International Acclaim as an Employer

29 October 2009

You're not alone if you find yourself querying how the hell PWC managed to come second, trailing only Google, in a study released yesterday by an outfit named "Universum" profiling the most attractive employers to students. Yes, PWC came second! The same firm that is rumoured to have: earlier this week ditched office Tim-Tams; forewarned staff 'start looking for a new job'; has made at least two, and possibly three waves of redundancies in the last year; gave no quarter to very generous staff; and apparently threatened staff with the Tree Sword of Damocles. So who conducted this study and who did they ask? Well, Universum states on its website that: Universum is the global leader in employer branding...We offer services and products that help employers attract, re...

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