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Piper Alderman Archive

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Clayton Utz Bans Graduates/Seasonal Clerks From Using Term “Mate”

19 October 2010

It has unbelievably been months since we have published anything substantial on embattled national law firm Clayton Utz. So it was with arms wide open (like embracing a forgotten mate) that we welc...

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Minter Ellison Lawyer ‘Discussed Child Sex, Rape, Bestiality and Incest’ in Recorded Conversation

2 April 2009

A rather salacious incident recently came to the Firm Spy's attention, as reported in The Australian.  According to court reports (and we express no opinion as to their truth or otherwise), a form...

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Allens Announces “Incredible” NO&T Alliance… 5 Years After its Rumoured Commencement

4 October 2010

Just as we were publishing a story profiling the laughable comments from AAR Chief Executive Partner Michael Rose that he doesn't think about money "too much", a big legal news was unfolding in Aus...

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Walk On! PwC Rumoured to be Implementing Across-the-Board “Promotions”

19 May 2010

The outpouring of vitriol for big4 accounting firm PwC shows no sign of ending. Disillusionment, of the highest order, appears to have taken hold at the firm, despite what appears to be... err, goo...

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Exclusive – New Leaked Clayton Utz Email Reveals Cold Summer Ahead for Most

17 December 2009

This is an interesting one. We could be off the mark here, but on our reading of the below leaked email from Clayton Utz mind speaker Chief Executive Partner David Fagan, there was almost an expect...

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Clayton Utz Lawyer Rebukes Librarian Fruit Thievery

15 March 2010

Tormented top tier law firm Clayton Utz is about to suffer yet another blow. After weeks of anguish following the defection of a major chunk of its partnership pool, and in the immediate wake of th...

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Best in the West! KPMG Hoards ‘Good’ Banned Employees

25 August 2009

In the current edition of BRW, KPMG national managing partner James Allt-Graham made the following comments: We've gone to great lengths to hoard good staff... one of the realities in the medium t...

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“Lock Up Your Daughters”: UniMelb Comm/Law Grad Neil Cannon Is On The Loose

17 October 2011

Back towards the start of the year, Citibank welcomed a slew of graduates into the investment banking fold, primed for grueling hours and grunt work. Except for Neil Cannon, who, according to an em...

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KPMG Announces Redundancies; 99 Sackings Take Total to 200 Lay Offs

8 April 2009

It is with a sense of regret that the Firm Spy, cap-in-hand, confirms a prediction we made off-handedly in February this year. On 14 February, we wrote a short post updating readers about the ph...

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KPMG Advisory Suffers Employee Exodus as Deloitte Tax Looks For 7th Signal

6 April 2010

In recent weeks we have reported the rumour that Big4 accounting firms PwC and Deloitte are being crippled by a reported flood of employee departures. These departures, we speculated, are a result ...

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