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Deloitte Moves to New Melbourne Office

19 May 2009

In a deal that probably could not have been negotiated at a worse time in the last two decades, Deloitte signed on to the lease at 550 Bourke Street in March 2008. Back in March 2008: Melbourne's ...

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Savage Garden; Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles Litigation Crisis Deepens

9 March 2011

The Clayton Utz website is a bit like the Firm Spy's backyard - out of date and underloved. We took a tour of the Clutz internet offering several days ago and noticed that the firm's Litigation &am...

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Mallesons Moves to Fixed-Fee Arrangements with Major Client Telstra

25 March 2010

There has been much talk in recent times about how, as a consequence of the GFC, law firms will be required to change the way they operate to adapt to the needs of clients. Clients, it is said, are sick of incurring extravagant legal costs when, for a fraction of the price, they can employ their own legal teams for a great deal of the day-to-day work they require. The in-house lawyers, for their own part, tend to be remunerated much more favourably than their junior private brethren, while the clients themselves drastically reduce legal bills. By way of adaption, clients have been calling on firms to consider alternative fee arrangements, including fixed-fee arrangements, as we emerge from the GFC. In this regard, mid-tier firm Gilbert + Tobin has been cavalier. Danny Boy Gilbert ...

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UPDATE #2: Where Are They Now? TV Lawyer Hopefuls Get Back To Reality

22 August 2011

[UPDATE 8:00pm Tuesday 23/8 - ED: following on from some of the comments, we decided to update this article and make it a feature. We did a bit more digging on a certain lawyer of Big Brother fame ...

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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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PWC Second Wave of Redundancies; PriceWaterhouseCoopers ‘Not Immune’ to GFC

29 January 2009

As was predicted rightly by the Firm Spy in the wake of graduate deferrals, it has been announced today that global accounting giant PriceWaterhouseCoopers has made a second wave of employee redund...

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11:59? Clayton Utz Nuclear Meltdown Looms as Partners Face MORE ex-employee litigation

17 June 2010

If someone had told us at the start of the year that we might see the corporate collapse of a major Australian firm, we wouldn't have believed it. Today, however, we hold very grave, very genuine concerns for the viability of Clayton Utz. We were sent the following link by an anonymous Clayton Utz spy earlier in the week. It is an interlocutory decision of the NSW Supreme Court relating to DEFAMATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST CLAYTON UTZ BROUGHT BY A FORMER EMPLOYEE. This brings to three the number of proceedings currently afoot or contemplated that involve Clayton Utz: the sexual harassment claims being brought against the firm by former employee Michael "Trench" Mitchell; the alleged breach of fiduciary duty action being brought by the firm against mastermind defector Grant Fuzi...

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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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The Hero Comes Along … Multi-Millionaire Corrs CEP John Denton Calls For More Dole-ars

24 February 2012

Senior Corrs Chambers Westgarth partners have for several years been reported to earn an annual pay-packet of nearly $2million. That's outstanding wedge. Really, it is. Each week, those Corrs partn...

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Linklaters Raid Gets Real: “Whole Raft” of Mallesons Finance Associates Jumping Ship

19 June 2011

Last week we noted that we're starting to see a major power shift towards lawyers at the junior end as lateral movements start to return to their pre-GFC glory days. We hardly spoke soon enough,...

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