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Macquarie Bank Archive

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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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A Change Would Do You Good; PwC AuIT Staff Resign In Droves

28 July 2010

In response to our article a couple of weeks ago which profiled the alleged underpayment of PwC managers, came the following comments from anonymous PwC spies: First this: The “Mass Exodus”...

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Allens Arthur Robinson Business Services Staff Shudder as Outsourcing Threat Emerges

23 March 2011

We mentioned recently that there is plenty of noise in the Australian corporate space on the issue of outsourcing, This follows from major moves internationally: In 2010, the US lost approximately...

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Exclusive: Leaked Minter Ellison Email Exposes Partial Thaw of Pay Freeze

16 December 2009

We may have missed the scoop on the Freehills 'two-tiered' pay-freeze thaw (a major report on Freehills will be posted tomorrow, so check back for more on this), but today the Firm Spy is back wher...

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PriceWaterhouseCoopers Graduate Start-Dates Deferred as GFC Bites

17 January 2009

Several reports coming into the Firm Spy confirm that global accounting leader PriceWaterhouseCoopers has delayed the commencement dates for many graduates in some of its Australian offices. We ...

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Deloitte Boss Giam Swiegers Boasts of ‘Double Digit Growth’ Amid Redundancy Rumours

11 June 2009

Since the GFC struck the Firm Spy has regularly queried whether firms have been using the economic climate as the scapegoat for firm redundancies which are in truth attributable to partner greed. ...

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Tony Holland “Ruthless” as DLA Phillips Fox Partnership Shrinks 30% Before Merger

21 March 2011

On 14 April 2010 we published the following allegation from an anonymous DLAPH spy: Tony Holland was enticed from his position as deputy chairman at MSJ in 2008 by DLA Dubai (and ex-MSJ) partners....

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Clayton Utz Clutzes Walk into Revolving Door at New “Suicide Proof” Sydney Eco-Office

24 August 2011

Clutz was big on the eco-branding when it invited legal media and key clients to a soiree celebrating the christening of its new Sydney offices at 1 Bligh Street.  As you may recall from a Rear Wi...

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UPDATE Rumour: BDO Directors Quit Amid Demands for MORE Personally Guaranteed Capital

23 March 2011

[ED BDO Chairman Tony Schiffman has sent an official response which we've included below] In its official response to our post last week reporting rumours of its impending collapse, the National...

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Dirty Money: A&O Australia’s Unprofitable Partnership Tainted By Child Porn Allegations

20 July 2011

We reported the news yesterday that A&O is embroiled in a child pornography scandal involving one of the firm's most respected US-based partners. As the firm's different global offices move to ...

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