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Gadens Lawyers Archive

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Fireball Burns Mallesons Environment Group Amid Questions Over Junior Welfare

5 August 2011

In March we reported conflicting rumours regarding Mallesons' Environment Practice, specifically in Melbourne. We received reports that the group was in a parlous state, bleeding staff and unable t...

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The Delusional Duo: Details Emerge on Defection Trendsetter Clayton Utz

3 May 2011

We had a laugh last week when we saw Clayton Utz CEP Darryl McDonough's delusional comments that his firm was "bucking a bit of a trend" in relation to the defection of its partners to smaller firm...

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PWC Staff ‘Twiddle Thumbs’ As Partners Attend Boozy Spring Carnival

5 November 2009

Hilarious anonymous tip from a PWC spy earlier today: So, I have been at PwC for a few years now... Melbourne Cup came around and my Big 4 friends told me of all the great parties their firms ar...

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AAR Partner Paul Quinn, Performance-Based Salary & The Lack of “Champions”

15 January 2010

AAR partner Paul Quinn uttered in his Business Spectator column earlier this week that junior lawyers should be remunerated based on performance. As reported by our friends at ALB: associate salaries have remained on a lockstep structure ... and "none of the arguments, in my view, present a compelling case to rule out performance based remuneration for lawyers ...  a strong and transparent performance culture is a good thing". We can think of a good reason Paul; for example when your firm does not have a "transparent performance culture" and young lawyers do not possess a "champion". Late last year an anonymous AAR spy wrote us the following ...Allens Arthur Robinson’smanagement are aware that legal salaries across all levels are below market rate (although this has not been ac...

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“Neil Down”; PWC Staff Irked By Indian OffShoring

10 December 2009

This comical, insightful goss from an anonymous PWC spy earlier today: "Neil" down or get taken down. Seems the good news machine at PWC continues spreading propoganda with last week a new entry to the calendar - an internal firm services town hall. these are the poor IT and Operations schleps who are at the beck and call of partners and the oddly named Chief Costs Officer "Neil" Wilson. In an effort to encourage morale Neils summonsed all 500 staff to a dark 3 star hotel ballroom for a 2 hour workshop; what staff were faced with was news that decisions on job offshoring to India would be made before christmas, some bad jokes and attempts at reaching the people and in what one person said was insulting a reference to the fact that even broom sweepers at NASA were as respected as a P...

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KPMG’s Perth Tax Division Counts Losses as “Maverick” Underpaid Staff Depart

16 March 2011

It has been a while since we've reported anything on Big 4 accounting firm KPMG; we thought the firm might finally be cleaning its act up. But then we received this: After up to 12 departures (fro...

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Norton Rose Clerkship Applicants Wait By The Phone, Typing Angry Emails

28 September 2011

A phone call, or at the very least a automatically generated email, is not too much to ask in today's technological age.  Simply pick up the phone. Or call someone in IT and give them the email di...

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Corrs Closes Doors: Gold Coast Office Closure

25 July 2008

In contrast to its graduate recrutiment page, which heralds to prospective graduates that 'Corrs opens Doors', Corrs Chambers Westgarth today loudly shut the doors to its Gold Coast Office. This mo...

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FS Editorial: Clayton Utz Laments Legal Aid Funding Amid Pro Bono Concerns in Era of Deleverage

20 May 2011

We read with interest a letter to the AFR editor entitled Legal access to justice is fundamental written by Clayton Utz pro bono partner David Hillard. The letter speaks to the inadequacy of the Fe...

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The $4.5million KPMG Question; Do We Reduce Graduate Numbers & Salary?

27 July 2009

Despite the successful take-up of the Poo Poll 'Temporary Work Arrangements', huge redundancies over two waves, a tenancy reduction and a hiring freeze, KPMG has found it necessary to reduce gradua...

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