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SETTLED: Rumoured Six-Figure Deal Ends ClizzoBridgetz as Manwhore Email Surfaces

28 November 2011

Australia's most rotten legal sex affair - ClizzoBridgetz -  has finally drawn to a close. Last week's settlement will mark an end to a chapter that has staggered even the most veteran legal...

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PWC Second Wave of Redundancies; PriceWaterhouseCoopers ‘Not Immune’ to GFC

29 January 2009

As was predicted rightly by the Firm Spy in the wake of graduate deferrals, it has been announced today that global accounting giant PriceWaterhouseCoopers has made a second wave of employee redund...

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Minter Ellison Partners Paid $1.1m+ After Apparently Sacking Mother of 5

28 September 2009

It emerged yesterday that an elderly home-invader found it necessary to berate ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer for failing to save Schapelle Corby from hard time in Kerbokoban prison. ...

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Save the Date – 1 July 2011; DLA Piper & DLA Phillips Fox Prepare for Merger Vote

1 December 2010

It is not quite 1000 wikileaked US cables, but the intelligence that has been sent to Firm Spy over the last week regarding the looming merger of DLA Phillips Fox and DLA Piper is compelling and ap...

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EXCLUSIVE: Firm Spy One-on-One Interview With Retiring Mallesons Chief Executive Partner Robert Milliner

4 November 2011

Since our inception many moons ago we have tended, rightly or wrongly, to single out the figureheads, or Chief Executive Partners, of the various firms about which we write.  The Spy takes the vie...

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Deloitte Moves to New Melbourne Office

19 May 2009

In a deal that probably could not have been negotiated at a worse time in the last two decades, Deloitte signed on to the lease at 550 Bourke Street in March 2008. Back in March 2008: Melbourne's ...

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Rumour PWC Set For Third Major Restructure in 12 Months

18 November 2009

It sounds like something is definitely on the cards (again!) at PWC. Not satisfied with the cost saving yielded by ditching client Christmas cards and removing chocolate buscuits from the shopping list, an anymous PWC spy has revealed that more heavy-handed cut-backs are apparently looming: PwC to restructure AGAIN! So the rumours are running rampant aroudnd the office that we are once again going to have an internal "review / restructure/redundancy". For some departments that would mean the 3rd in he past 12 months. How is anyone expected to be productive if the moment you start to understand what it is you are meant to do they change it again? And what does that mean for your development? I am so sick and tired of being told they want to develop me when they a) have limited all tr...

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Losing its Religion; Clayton Utz Crucified By More Partnership Defections

16 March 2010

By our count, the following things have happened at besieged national law firm Clayton Utz in 2010: 14 very profitable, well respected partners defected from the firm to build two Australian offices of Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy; the firm sacked over 30% of its Melbourne graduates; a former employee has been given leave to pursue further claims against the firm for alleged sexual harassment and bullying; the firm was stripped of its credentials as an employer of choice for women by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency; and a librarian has created considerable controversy by hording an inordinate amount of firm fruit. Holy moly! We are particularly upset at the sacking of the graduates. This is frankly a disgrace and all partners concerned shoul...

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Baker & McKenzie Grad Intake Halved; Sackings; Reduced Hours… But the Office is Nice!

2 July 2009

In a Firm Spy exclusive, we yesterday revealed claims that Baker & McKenzie staff had been told recently that a pay freeze would be implemented across the firm, subject to some exceptions. W...

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Ernst & Young CA Policy; Fail & You Pay Us

12 November 2009

Pop the champagne corks - we finally received some inside goss from inside Ernst & Young! In response to our post earlier in the week profiling the ludicrous PWC CA policy, we received the following comments from an anonymous EY spy: I'd like to mention that Ernst & Young also has the same policy to PwC in terms of failing 2 CA subjects and you're out. But on top of that, if we fail a subject we owe E&Y $1k (per subject) for study assistance /time off etc. Can you believe it? We already work ridiculous hours to get through the piles of work AND we also have the added pressure of having to study and pass our CA subjects otherwise we could lose our jobs AND owe E&Y $1k! Theres really no such thing as "study assistance" because they're gonna get their moneys worth an...

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