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Hall & Wilcox Archive

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Firm Spy Remuneration Report – Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Salaries

16 November 2009

Following our very popular reports into the remuneration of lawyers at: Mallesons; Freehills; and Minter Ellison we today move onto the salaries paid to lawyers at Allens Arthur Robinson. A...

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How Much Do They Earn? Clayton Utz Partner Salaries Revealed

21 December 2010

How will your firm look in 2015? "I'm very certain that we are going to be a very successful and strong firm." (Clayton Utz Chief Executive Partner David Fagan, 25/06/2010) Today marks t...

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Clayton Utz Equity Value to Shrink With New Office, Partners & ‘Eligible’ Pay Rises

25 February 2010

Last Friday, the AFR reported in an excellent article profiling the Clayton Utz/A&O partnership defections that Clutz would, as part of its response to the shocking departures, open an office in Hong Kong. Although it was reported that the decision to open the office was made months prior to the A&O defections, the Clutz partnership is understood to be hopeful that the international office will alleviate what the AFR considered disenchantment within the Clutz partnership that the firm had no exposure to Asia. But it will come at a major cost. It is a major risk for the firm, especially when several other local firms (Mallesons is an excellent example) have entrenched ties with clients in Hong Kong, not to mention a multitude of international firms. But the costliness of t...

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Blakes, Mallesons & Allens; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

9 June 2010

Considered Clint Eastwood's greatest cinematic triumph, the 1966 classic spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a story (says Wikipedia) of three gunslingers competing to find a fortun...

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Rumour; PwC Managers Paid $17k Less in 2010 Than in 2008 as Morale Bottoms Out

13 July 2010

In an article aptly entitled Accountants feel duped on pay rises, the AFR (25/6) walked readers through the poor salary sentiment pervanding Big4 accounting firms: A survey has found that 35 per c...

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PwC Pay Reduction; Workers to Lose Money in GFC First

24 May 2009

As if losing hundreds of your work-friends and being denied a pay increase wasn't enough, it has emerged in another Firm Spy exclusive that PwC employees are actually set to lose a significant perc...

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PwC Rumour; Staff Forewarned ‘Start Looking for Another Job’

13 October 2009

Following news we reported a couple of weeks ago that PwC is poised to make further job cuts, we received the following interesting tip from an anonymous PwC spy yesterday: PwC is at it again! Fol...

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KPMG KO; Dozens Sacked Without Warning

14 February 2009

Knock Outs across state lines today with KPMG sacking 101 staff in the Melbourne and Sydney offices.  According to one insider, who asked not to be named: 'completely out of the blue. Everyone is...

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Kyle Sandilands Divorce; Minter Ellison Lawyer Steals Tamara’s Heart

6 December 2010

With a face and body fit for radio, the Firm Spy could never quite work out what budding young starlet Tamara Jaber saw in Kyle Sandilands. The radio shock-jock has offended legions of listeners ov...

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ClizzoBridgetz: Latest Developments in Australia’s Most Rotten Legal Sex Affair

6 July 2011

"Scorned lover". "Whispering campaign". "Locker room banter". "Spading other girls". "Looking for his next victim". "Being such a slut". "Taking advantage of her". "A raving idiot". "She felt haras...

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