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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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UPDATE: Mallesons Rehires Redundant Secretary as Melbourne Environment Group Withers

18 March 2011

Last year, Mallesons headcount underwent a major contraction following its redundancy scheme. According to BRW, in FY 2009/2010, Mallesons booted a total of 13.1% of its workforce, moving employee ...

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BREAKING NEWS: King & Wood Mallesons Merger Confirmed as Mallesons Braces For Beijing Merger Exodus

15 December 2011

State-based Mallesons managing partners have today conducted briefing sessions to confirm that the Chinese government has assented to the link up between the country's third largest law firm and Au...

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REDACTED: Defections, Claire Winton Burn & Trust in Clayton Utz ‘Relationship Contracting’

6 August 2010

Occasionally we get it wrong with our stories and this is one such instance. No, we don't think the content we previously published was inaccurate, it was just way too personal and irrelevant. We agree with the comments from Marco below and have thus withdrawn the post. Send the Firm Spy your news and views!

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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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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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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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Allens Arthur Robinson Lures Graduates with Hollow Promises of International Travel

4 June 2009

Not only does Allens Arthus Robinson stubbornly refuse to offer graduates a decent rotation system, but it seems that the graduates' original decision to work with the firm may have been influenced...

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Chocolate Biscuits GONE Following Cuts in PWC Discretionary Spend

26 October 2009

Thanks to the PWC spy who sent us the following comments in response to our recent story that some PWC are rumoured to have been told to start looking for a new job: I also work at PwC and hav...

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Update; New Claims in Clayton Utz v Michael “Trench” Mitchell Saga

5 March 2010

Short of an earthquake shredding razing its offices, things could probably not get much worse for Clayton Utz right now. A few weeks ago we heard the scandalous details of the defections of over...

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