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Anderson Rice Lawyers Archive

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Operation Bangkok: Minter Ellison Searches For Missing CFO Craig Raneberg

19 September 2011

The search continues for Minter Ellison's former CFO Craig Raneberg. Alleged to have misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars from the firm's equity partner accounts, Mr Raneberg reportedly...

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Minter Ellison Babe Mayhem: “We Loiter at Their Elevator Each Morning”

12 July 2011

It has been good news this month at Australia's largest law firm by revenue, Minter Ellison, who posted partnership growth of 2.4% for FY2011. The firm now has 296 partners, up from 289 last year (...

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‘Walk Out Or Be Pushed Out’; PWC Partnership Hotel Bunk Bed Frivolity

23 November 2009

Thanks to the anonymous PWC spy who sent us the following, bunk-bed share-room PWC partner info: To sum things up at PwC the whole firm is a mess. The culture and mood is so bad people are walking...

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Save the Date – 1 July 2011; DLA Piper & DLA Phillips Fox Prepare for Merger Vote

1 December 2010

It is not quite 1000 wikileaked US cables, but the intelligence that has been sent to Firm Spy over the last week regarding the looming merger of DLA Phillips Fox and DLA Piper is compelling and ap...

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“Idea Lifecycle”; KPMG Brain Explosion Brings Alumni “Evolution”

5 October 2010

One of the fundamental ideals underpinning Firm Spy - which gives us motivation to continue burning the midnight oil while you all sleep - is an unyielding aim to expose and hopefully one day eradi...

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Big4 Accounting Firm Parental Leave Policies & the Freehills (in)Significant Cost

13 May 2010

A couple of weeks ago, the AFR published an interesting article profiling parental leave policies amongst the Big4 accounting firms. In that article, the following was written: From July 1, KPMG w...

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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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KPMG’s Perth Tax Division Counts Losses as “Maverick” Underpaid Staff Depart

16 March 2011

It has been a while since we've reported anything on Big 4 accounting firm KPMG; we thought the firm might finally be cleaning its act up. But then we received this: After up to 12 departures (fro...

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Freehills Loses Superannuation Group to Lander & Rogers as Leading Practices Review Rolls On

19 May 2011

And now that we've got that emotional rubbish out of the way... let's move onto some good old-fashioned gossip - the stuff you visit us for! Following on from our posts profiling the Freehills L...

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Firm Spy Exclusive: Baker & McKenzie Pay Freeze

1 July 2009

It's that time of year again: partners are in a tizz about billing targets, secretaries are getting antsy over unbilled time and lawyers are generally working too hard.  Given the EOFY party seaso...

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