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Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2)

12 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2) In January 2010, Magistrate Hennessy of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell to correct orders a...

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Firm Spy Remuneration – Mallesons Lawyer Salaries

11 November 2009

Please find below our revised report into Mallesons lawyer salaries. Thankfully, the firm has introduced a sweeping redundancy scheme in between the receipt of many of these responses and today's publication, making it difficult to determine who has submitted the relevant responses and whether they remain at the firm. Of course, we're dealing with a chief executive warlock, so anything is possible! Please let us know if you're worried that we have inadvertently exposed you as an anonymous tipster (of sorts) by sending us your remuneration package details. We still need more people to complete the survey, so by all means continue your great work by filling in the remuneration survey. We will post each of the Big 6 law firms in order of revenue. Mallesons is on the record as sayin...

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Master Plastered; Claire Winton Burn Returns to Work (Clayton Utz?)

10 February 2011

Masterchef series 2 finalist Claire Winton Burn, who captured our attention last year when her entanglement in an office tryst with a married Clayton Utz colleague was revealed by the Daily Telegra...

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The “Beast” Who Stole Christmas? AAR’s Ron Fielding & 1-to-1 “Instructions”

6 May 2010

It was a while ago now, but you may recall in late 2008 we reported the alarming news that Allens Arthur Robinson had decided to cancel its Christmas party.At the time, the firm made the following ...

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Ernst & Young & Out the Door; Juvenile Chief Gerard Dalbosco Cannot Stem Losses

31 May 2010

If you want to hear stories of disillusioned junior staff sticking it to the greedy partnerships that worked their fledgling fingers to the bone during the GFC, come to the Firm Spy. It has been mo...

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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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Exclusive: Leaked Minter Ellison Email Exposes Partial Thaw of Pay Freeze

16 December 2009

We may have missed the scoop on the Freehills 'two-tiered' pay-freeze thaw (a major report on Freehills will be posted tomorrow, so check back for more on this), but today the Firm Spy is back wher...

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“Song of Love, Loss & Hard Work”: Triple J Unearths Mallesons Lawyer Robbie True

30 January 2012

Did you listen to the Australia Day Triple J Hottest 100? We had it playing in the FS bunker and were pleased to see the representation of many home-grown acts in the line-up, especially on our nat...

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Ex-Deacons, Minter Ellison Lawyer Melissa Hammett Makes Contact

16 December 2009

Attractive. Intelligent. Successful. Funny. Endearing. These are but a few of the adjectives that we would use describe the delightful, yet surprisingly unlucky-in-love former Deacons/Minters la...

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No Deal! Andrew O’Keefe Snubs Articled Clerk Admissions

22 April 2009

With doubts lingering as to whether game-show host Andrew O'Keefe would move the lawyer admissions of a group of Allens Arthur Robinson articled clerks, the Firm Spy can today reveal that, at the b...

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