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MAJOR KPMG Update: “A Galaxy of Multi-Coloured Uppers, Downers, Screamers & Laughers”

29 June 2011

It has been over three months since we've written about KPMG. Three long months, with nothing. In that time, there have been miracles, delusions, disappearances and detentions. But before we delve ...

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EXCLUSIVE: makingcareerNONSENSE – Corrs Chambers Westgarth Embroiled in $500k Grad Harrassment Suit

31 May 2011

Earlier this year, our friends at ALB awarded Corrs Chambers Westgarth the Gold Employer of Choice 2011. We're not sure what this means exactly, but it sounds impressive and the firm certainly agre...

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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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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; Adelaide Office Gains Financial Independence

26 March 2010

We reported last week that full merger talks between Australian law firm DLA Phillips Fox and its international affiliate DLA Piper had been thwarted. That is, the incoming Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland hadn't yet had an opportunity to get across "the financials" of the merger. Tony's task of getting across these mysterious "financials", apparently just got a little easier. If our anonymous DLAPF spy is to be believed, he ought to consign the figures coming from his Adelaide office to the bin: DLAPF/DLA Piper merger? DLAPF Adelaide is now financially independent of the wider firm. It happened a couple of months ago, very quietly. Very quietly indeed! We certainly haven't read anything in the press. This news is at odds with the firm's Australian website which pr...

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Weekend Warriors: How Mallesons Juniors Work Harder Than The Others

1 May 2011

[ED: This post was originally published in early December last year, during which time Firm Spy was blocked at Mallesons. Given that the site is now freely accessible by staffers, we wanted to make...

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The Billion Dollar Burp; PwC Cooks Centro Books as Satyam Gulps Ganges Bog Brew

14 April 2011

The top 20 Australian companies spent a whopping $239,196,887 for the auditing services of the Big 4 accounting firms in FY 2009/2010. That's nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, based on our tec...

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UPDATE: MAN WHO’RE Bridgette Styles & Clayton Utz? FS Answers the Big Questions

23 June 2011

Last week the AFR in our view undersold the gravity of the Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles litigation nightmare. The newspaper referred to it, rather triflingly, as a "lingering PR headache". It is ...

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Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2)

12 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2) In January 2010, Magistrate Hennessy of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell to correct orders a...

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ANALYSIS: Herbert Smith Freehills Merger To Overcome “Panic” & “Loss-Making” Operations

27 January 2012

Since our recent article profiling the looming merger between Freehills and Silver Circle firm Herbert Smith, more details have come to light. We spent some time re-reading emails in our inbox and ...

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Free as a Bird; Freehills Flying as Competitors Suffer GFC Fallout

13 December 2008

The reality of the GFC has struck Australia, leavimg many jobless and many more concerned for their future prosperity. It also has hit the legal industry, with widespread lawyer redundancies and su...

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