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UPDATED “Jobs For The Boys”? QUOTALS Accused of Siphoning Freehills Job to Inner LSS Sanctum

6 June 2011

When the FS team gets nostalgic and thinks back to our uni days, a few OF us recall life in the law faculty. There were the weekly BBQs, LSS Law Ball Orgies, and the pub-crawls with "BYO Vomit Bag"...

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Minter Ellison Partners “Porno Forno” & “Horny Horsley” Allegedly Sent Simon Alroe Packing

16 October 2009

It has taken many phone calls to our sources all across the country to try to get to the bottom of what actually happened to cause Minter Ellison to de-equitise Simon Alroe from the partnership. This is what we have come up with, thanks to an anonymous spy: Minters partners Trent Forno (known by everyone in the industry as "Porno" Forno) and Ken Horsley (known "Horny" Horsley) were the brains behind the partnership decision to report Alroe's alleged harassment to the Qld Law Society. They did this with a view to having Alroe struck off the roll of solicitors. They took this action despite an offer being made by Ian Hangar QC to the partnership to mediate, which they rejected out of hand. Alroe has retained a silk in his criminal dispute as well as a different silk in his partn...

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Mallesons Sends Mixed Messages to Disillusioned, Mutinous Staff

30 November 2009

Last Friday we reporte that the Mallesons partnership had decided to give staff a Christmas bonus, of sorts. In response to the Mallesons December Pay Run of the Milliner, we received the following...

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Blake Dawson Tit For Tat: Allegedly Leaked Memo Reveals “Complete Fall” as Tech Firm

10 September 2010

The Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday that Prime Minister Julia Gillard had "called on Labor MPs to stop damaging internal leaks that ... derailed the party's election campaign". At s...

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UPDATE Rumour: BDO Directors Quit Amid Demands for MORE Personally Guaranteed Capital

23 March 2011

[ED BDO Chairman Tony Schiffman has sent an official response which we've included below] In its official response to our post last week reporting rumours of its impending collapse, the National...

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Tony in the Sky With Diamonds; DLA Piper Loses Canberra-Based Partners

10 May 2011

Picture yourself on a boat in a river sitting at the DLA Phillips Fox partnership table. It's mid 2008 and although you're prematurely greying and fat, although your third decennary was spent in a ...

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Simon Alroe & The Jeopardy of the Minter Ellison Thawing Pay Freeze

15 January 2010

We reported in late December the revelation that Minter Ellison was intending to lift its pay freeze. At the time, we thought that the thaw was dubious, however, because only particular staff would be given good news in the "letter notifying them of the result of their review". Sounds a lot like Minters & Chief Executive Partner John Weber only intend to increase the wages of those members of staff it is fearful of losing. Over the break the Firm Spy received some disastrous gossip for the small few who genuinely hope to get a pay rise after the review. This from an anonymous - and apparently high-ranking - Minters spy: recently exiled Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe has had the criminal charges against him dropped. This must be one hell of a slap in the face to his former...

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Ex-Clutz are Ex-Mates: Clutz’s War on Mateship

27 October 2010

As if the firm's recent ban on 'mate' and other office colloquialisms wasn't bad enough, it seems that the firm is now 'pressuring' staff not to socialise with former employees.  Thanks to the ano...

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Revenue Down But Maddocks Partners Will Earn Less to Save Jobs

1 May 2009

In contrast to international top-tier heavyweight Mallesons, which, in the face of record revenue is still considering chopping spare lawyers, Maddocks partners have today announced that they are i...

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UPDATE Rumour; BDO Australia in Financial Troubles, Partners Leaving

15 March 2011

[ED: an official BDO response has been received and is posted below] We are hearing rumours that mid-tier accounting firm BDO Australia is in financial trouble. In the last week we've had a few ...

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