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Ernst & Young Archive

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How Much Do Mallesons Partners Earn? AFR Law Firm Profit Survey

22 September 2009

Thanks to the AFR for the following profile: Partner Remuneration System Lock-step, virtually full equity partnership Partner Pay For 2008/09 Most of its equity partners earned $1,400,00...

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Magic Circle Firm Allen & Overy Stablises Entry, Lavishes $4.5million on New Digs

5 April 2011

When A&O emerged in Australia in early 2010, most senior law firm figures and CEPs publicly offered words of encouragement (a notable exception being Clayton Utz), in essence stating that they ...

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Clayton Utz HR Delivers ‘Third Blow’ To Sydney Grads

9 November 2009

Thanks to the anonymous Clayton Utz spy who sent us the following audacious comments on the weekend.   Dear Firm Spy, I am a long-time reader but a first-time Spy. You recently reported that in March this year, as part of the “Clayton Utz firm-wide salary freeze”, rotating graduates who had been promised salary increases of at least 5k at the end of each of their three rotations were ‘dodged’ when it came time to make-good on those promises. Well despite Clutz making $491 million last financial year, on 16 October the firm delivered its third blow below the belt to Clutz grads - we were dodged in March, we did not even receive CPI at the end of June and now we have been dodged yet again! On 16 October we were ordered by HR to assemble and form ranks ready to be addressed b...

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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 We agree with the comments from Marco below and have thus withdrawn the post.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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‘Whoppers’! PwC Partner Neil Wilson Battles Massive Man Boobs

7 September 2011

[ED: this post was originally published in March 2010. An FS editor was speaking with a senior PwC figure recently who mentioned that Neil Wilson was a bit of a PwC "hard man". This comment reminde...

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Best in the West! KPMG Hoards ‘Good’ Banned Employees

25 August 2009

In the current edition of BRW, KPMG national managing partner James Allt-Graham made the following comments: We've gone to great lengths to hoard good staff... one of the realities in the medium t...

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Apple vs Google Tech Fight Sees Bitter Freehills/Blake Dawson Courtroom Showdown

4 August 2011

The Samsung inhouse team clearly needs to spend less time working and more time trawling online gossip blogs. We were dismayed to learn, moreover, that the company decided to entrust the fate of it...

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The Minter Ellison Portrait of Ministerial Brown-Nosing

20 August 2009

Probably the clearest validation of the economic prophesies of Mallesons Prognosticator Partner Robert Milliner emerged earlier this week from national competitor Minter Ellison. But before we i...

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Slopping Out: Mallesons Fail Jail Now Facing Tenancy Squeeze in Melbourne

6 July 2009

It was reported in May that female inmates at an Irish penitentiary were being forced to share over-crowded cells: Thirty female prisoners – including two pregnant inmates – were "crammed" int...

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Going Where The Federal Govt Wont: Mallesonians Pledge Loyalty 1st to China, 2nd to K&W

27 March 2012

... well, not quite. But in an extraordinary 48 hour period, and less than one month after Mallesons formalised its ties with Chinese firm King & Wood, it has emerged: (1) that China has taken ...

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