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‘Executive Counsel’ Position Makes Freehills the Top-Tier Tightwad

26 April 2009

It started with Australia's first firm-wide pay-freeze. It continued with remarks from top dog Gaivn Bell that the pay-freeze would continue until further notice. Then, last week, Freehills a...

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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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“Idea Lifecycle”; KPMG Brain Explosion Brings Alumni “Evolution”

5 October 2010

One of the fundamental ideals underpinning Firm Spy - which gives us motivation to continue burning the midnight oil while you all sleep - is an unyielding aim to expose and hopefully one day eradi...

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Mallesons Blocks Facebook: Secretaries Devastated

29 May 2009

It had to happen sooner or later.  One anonymous tipster writes to the Firm Spy that: at mallesons not only did they get the pay freeze last week, but this week they've cut off access to facebook...

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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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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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Kill Bill; Minter Ellison’s Redundancy Firing-Line Exposed

17 September 2009

When news is slow (like this week), the team at the Firm Spy needs to work a little harder. But our pain is your gain with this little gem that almost slipped through the cracks! We reported in ...

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Blake Dawson Says ‘No Pay Freeze’… Yet Wages to Remain Steady

4 June 2009

A huge news story is emerging at Blake Dawson this morning in what might easily be construed as a calculated effort by the firm to pacify lawyers threatening to revolt. It has been reported that...

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The Denis Brock Crock; Clifford Chance Defector Just Visiting Mallesons Best Friends

5 August 2010

We went looking for some news on Mallesons last night and stumbled onto an interesting piece. A cursory search on Google news revealed no less than three articles featuring a jubilant Mallesons boa...

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’20% Over Budget’; Blake Dawson Partners Laugh All The Way To The Bank

8 December 2009

When does the point come when partners can feel convinced that the economic uptick is not just a "false economic dawn"? Where is the juncture that partners agree that the GFC is over and decide to ...

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