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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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Bonkers Deloitte Plan To Force Un-Used Staffers To, Err … Work More

1 December 2011

It looks like Deloitte's response the enveloping under-utilisation crisis among major Australian accounting firms is an attempt to make staffers twiddling their thumbs to ... work harder. Yes, that...

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Rumour PWC Set For Third Major Restructure in 12 Months

18 November 2009

It sounds like something is definitely on the cards (again!) at PWC. Not satisfied with the cost saving yielded by ditching client Christmas cards and removing chocolate buscuits from the shopping list, an anymous PWC spy has revealed that more heavy-handed cut-backs are apparently looming: PwC to restructure AGAIN! So the rumours are running rampant aroudnd the office that we are once again going to have an internal "review / restructure/redundancy". For some departments that would mean the 3rd in he past 12 months. How is anyone expected to be productive if the moment you start to understand what it is you are meant to do they change it again? And what does that mean for your development? I am so sick and tired of being told they want to develop me when they a) have limited all tr...

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Pay Run of the Milliner; Mallesons Announces Christmas Bonus

27 November 2009

We reported last week that Mallesons' pay freeze is apparently showing no signs of thawing. This remains true, despite encouraging news received earlier today that the firm is giving staff a Christmas bonus, of sorts. Thanks to the anonymous Mallesons spy for the following information: Warlock Milliner has just delivered some long overdue good news - we're getting some money out of the partnership and just in time for Christmas! Not that it is very much, mind you. "3% of your wage" in the form of a bonus in the "December pay run". Is this the "pay run of the milliner"? It is interesting that the partners have chosen to carefully calibrate the bonus as a one-off payment, rather than a more permanent increase in our wages, annualised in each monthly pay.  This means that when the ...

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Rumour; Ernst & Young Cancels Bonus Scheme & Doubles Staff Referral Bonus

29 July 2010

For those standing outside the Big4 accounting firms who read our now regular posts pertaining to "en masse" employee departures, our reportage appears to be perceived as sensationalist or hyperbol...

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DLA Partner Allegedly Embroiled in Foxxxy Interracial Montana Fishburn Porno Scandal

16 August 2010

Earlier this year, we reported the news that DLA Phillips Fox was chasing a full-merger with its offshore affiliate DLA Piper. The AFR broke the story in August 2009 that DLA Phillips Fox was seeki...

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Goal Defended? Mallesons & FirmSpy Shoot-Out Over EOWA Award Credentials

24 March 2011

The Mallesons executive-team claiming a deserved victory regarding its recent naming as an EOWA Employer of Choice for Women is a bit like a bloke feigning "sporting interest" in mixed netball - it...

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EXCLUSIVE: Blake Dawson Loses 3 Partners + Marketing Team in “AssHurts” Exodus

5 December 2011

Since the Blake Dawson link up with Ashurst was formally revealed in late September, there have been some interesting developments. In September, Legal Week reported that it had spoken to an Ashurs...

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Crocodile Dundee’s Plastic Surgery made possible by Ernst & Young?

23 June 2009

If you're like us here at the Firm Spy, and you're wondering to whom we can apportion blame for the disfigurement of iconic Australian actor Paul Hogan through plastic surgery, then it might be tim...

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Norton Rose Lawyer to Marry 18yo Multi-Billionaire Heiress Anna Abramovich

20 October 2010

Very regrettably, we haven't had much gossip to report about the recent arrival Norton Rose since it formally merged with (and renamed) Deacons Lawyers on 1 January this year (if you have Norton Ro...

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