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Premature Evacuation; DLA Phillips Fox Decimated By Mass Defections Pre-Merger

11 March 2011

Both the DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox partnerships confirmed last week that the vote to merge had been successful and that DLA Piper would officially arrive on 1 May 2011.  This means that 75% o...

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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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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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Seasonal Clerk Calls Mallesons Lawyers ‘Arrogant’ in Staggering Outburst

1 June 2009

Seasonal clerks take up too much office room, are rarely helpful and sometimes smell, but it is not often that a law firm's effort to help clerks find graduate employment will actually cause it h...

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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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Kill Bill; Minter Ellison’s Redundancy Firing-Line Exposed

17 September 2009

When news is slow (like this week), the team at the Firm Spy needs to work a little harder. But our pain is your gain with this little gem that almost slipped through the cracks! We reported in ...

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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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115 Jobless; Mass Redundancies at DLA Phillips Fox, Deacons & Corrs Chambers Westgarth

12 December 2008

The Firm Spy can confirm today that a gob-smacking 115 staff of been collectively laid off from DLA Phillips Fox, Deacons & Corrs Chambers Westgarth in the last month. Numbers lost. Fearful ...

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Fail 2 Subjects & You’re ‘Fired’; PwC Introduces CA Policy

10 November 2009

In response to a recent post profiling suspicious survey results suggesting PWC is a 'top employer', we received the following comments from an anonymous PWC spy in relation to a revised Chartered Accountancy study policy: ... There are a lot of extremely pissed of employees at PwC feeling a little bit like indentured slaves that get dictated everything. [First] a ... pay cut to take ‘flexible’ leave. [Second]That there is no overtime system anymore (not that TOIL was awesome, but at least it was something). now CA. This firm just does not stop - graduates stay away and make sure you ask questions about how long your are locked in for if you want to do CA! PwC can now fire you if you fail 2 subjects. It’s all under the ‘policy’. Payraises were so bad this year that 2nd year...

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Linklaters Targets Australia, Meeting AAR & Freehills For Merger Talks

6 December 2011

Many of our readers will have seen the interesting news story in Friday's AFR Hearsay that a "trimmer" Freehills is in shape for a merger. The story came a few weeks after our speculation that Free...

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