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HWL Ebsworth Archive

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Yes Way! Rumour Clayton Utz Involved in IR Claim Against Sacked Grads

4 September 2009

We reported earlier in the week the incredible rumour that Clayton Utz graduates were informed (prior to accepting graduate offers, we think) that they would receive pay rises after completing rota...

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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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No Deloitte Redundancies as Pay Freeze is Announced

14 May 2009

Unlike KPMG, Ernst & Young and PwC, which have made hundreds of workers redundant, Deloitte has so far managed to avoid any major sackings. Whether this is a result of charity from Deloitte man...

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Big4 Accounting Firm Parental Leave Policies & the Freehills (in)Significant Cost

13 May 2010

A couple of weeks ago, the AFR published an interesting article profiling parental leave policies amongst the Big4 accounting firms. In that article, the following was written: From July 1, KPMG w...

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Ex-Clayton Utz Partner George Livanes an Alleged Fraudster

26 August 2009

With an investigation into investments made by Clayton Utz partners into an elaborate tax scheme apparently still afoot, it has emerged today that an ex-Clayton Utz partner is presently facing char...

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EXCLUSIVE: PwC Pulls Jobs Trigger With Shock Graduate DeTerring Campaign

23 November 2011

What's the value of changing plans? It's a simple enough question. If plans are changed, what do you get out of it? Where is the value? It's a question several PwC grads asked themselves earlier th...

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Rumour: Luis Izzo Resigns Days After ClizzoBridgetz Suppression Order Lifted

9 December 2011

By the measure of things, last week must have been a truly horrible time in the life of Clutz lawyer Luis Izzo. Emails he expected would remain correspondence between himself and the intended addre...

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Merger Ake Bhursts: Blake Dawson Finally Lands International Suitor in Ashurst Link-Up

6 September 2011

On Friday, Blake Dawson Chief Executive Partner John Carrington apparently sent a firm-wide email confirming the substance of an AFR report of the same day (2/9) that Blake Dawson and Silver Circle...

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PwC; ‘Make Like a Tree … & Get Out of Here!’

16 June 2009

... On an unpaid holiday, that is! PwC Chief Executive Mark Johnson, while revealing that his staff had decisively voted in favour of the unpaid leave initiative, feigned an understanding of wha...

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Doubling the Double Digits; Deloitte’s Giam Swiegers Divulges Partner Profits

3 July 2009

Restive Deloitte workers threatening Toadfish-esque delinquency appear to have galvanised Giam Swiegers to offer a belated response to the firm's double digit growth. Pictured in yet another flambo...

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