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Freedom Shackled; Freehills Partner Tempers Earlier Encouraging Firm Comments

29 December 2008

In what might be construed as an effort to assuage the earlier message that the firm is 'in good stead', Freehills managing partner Gavin Bell has made some comments which will likely dampen the fe...

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Technotronic; Blake Dawson Computer Mayhem Explained

9 February 2011

Many of you will recall our popular post last year featuring a very embarrassing memo/speech (apparently) leaked from a Blake Dawson partner. The partner (allegedly) involved unwittingly left the m...

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Possum Poo; Mallesons, AAR, Blakes & CGW Scoop Dodgey Corporate Awards

21 May 2010

Other than the coveted suite of Firm Spy awards, including the Down Low Medal, Partner of the Year and Firm of the Year, the various prizes and trophies awarded to corporate Australian firms are a ...

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Allegation; Freehills Partner Chris Jose ‘Aggressive’ to Former Lawyer Nicole Stransky

3 March 2010

After a fantastic year in 2009 in which the firm won the inaugural Firm Spy Corporate Firm of the Year Award, Freehills has descended into damage control today with a former lawyer alleging the firm discriminated against her. According to The Age, the case highlights the poor working conditions at law firms. The lawyer in question is Nicole Stransky, a 50 year old, who was employed at Freehills from 2006. She claims she was bullied and harassed during 2008 and 2009 to such an extent that she developed suicidal thoughts and a general deterioration in her mental health. It is quite ironic that these allegations are being levelled at the firm, given that Freehills ex-managing partner Peter Butler said at the 2007 Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture (an event honouring the legacy of a ...

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BABEWATCH: (Minter Ellison?) Lawyer Laura Weston’s FHM Swimsuit Modelling History Exposed

17 February 2012

We first touched on the very serious industry issue of "which law firm has the hottest lawyers" back in July last year when we published the insights of a Melbourne-based pervert. The fellow had a ...

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Possum Poo Poo; The “Look & Feel” of a Giant Blakes Fake

10 June 2010

Two Friday's ago we reported the frankly hilarious news that two major Australian law firms were apparently claiming to have won the same "coveted" IFLR corporate award. A terrific anonymous spy pu...

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Allens Arthur or Martha? Confusion Reigns over Voluntariness of AAR Redundancies

6 July 2009

We received two emails last week from Allens spies who insisted that some of the 114 people populating The List (voluntary redundancies) emailed by Michael Rose around the firm on Thursday were in...

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Clayton Utz Redundancies – The GFC Enters New Territory

7 February 2009

In a clear departure from its earlier representations, Clayton Utz has today made two second-year lawyers redundant from its private equity practice in Sydney. Whereas mere weeks ago the Clutz m...

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PwC Penny-Pinching; No Quarter Given to Generous Staff

2 July 2009

Thanks to the PwC spy who gave us the following audacious assessment of the firm: I work at PwC in a leadership position ... PwC's Internal I.T. department BS Technology (not to be mistaken for Bu...

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Blimey! Firm Spy Rebuked by Blake Dawson Lawyer

21 August 2009

In response to our story profiling the Blake Dawson pay-rise-pay-freeze, which we thought was less about 'focus' and more about 'f**k-us', we received the following email: The source who said no B...

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