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Burns Law Archive

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Tick BOOM!!! Citibank Employee Sacked Over Viral Neil Cannon Email Issues Proceedings

19 December 2011

After naming and shaming Neil Cannon, only to become aware days later that his "Tick Boom" email was an elaborate hoax by a computer-hacking colleague, we felt a measure of sympathy for the man. We...

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Linklaters Targets Australia, Meeting AAR & Freehills For Merger Talks

6 December 2011

Many of our readers will have seen the interesting news story in Friday's AFR Hearsay that a "trimmer" Freehills is in shape for a merger. The story came a few weeks after our speculation that Free...

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Mallefuns Gives Free Leave While Allens Arthur is Robbing Staff Holidays

15 December 2009

We received a few replies to our call yesterday for news on the way firms are handling the Christmas shut-down. In essence, we were hoping to find out if any firms were using the opportunity - a tr...

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‘Shocking’? Freehills’ Frances Drummond, Outdoor Toilets & Cocaine Beverages

7 September 2009

Out of the office, Freehills partner Frances Drummond has a taste for the simple things in life. She apparently likes the wildnerss, living in a 'shack', and the rustic feel of an outdoor dunny: F...

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Magic Circle Firm Allen & Overy Stablises Entry, Lavishes $4.5million on New Digs

5 April 2011

When A&O emerged in Australia in early 2010, most senior law firm figures and CEPs publicly offered words of encouragement (a notable exception being Clayton Utz), in essence stating that they ...

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Aussies Earning Big Bucks Overseas Despite Domestic Economic Prosperity

13 October 2010

We spied an interesting article in the AFR last week profiling the huge dollars Aussies are currently earning abroad. We were particularly struck by the reported figures because whereas Australia i...

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Freehills Leading Practices Review: Is Your Group on the Chopping Block?

31 March 2011

A couple of weeks ago we broke the story that Freehills was considering severing its ER group from the firm. We later calculated that the move would net partners an average profit of under $12,000 ...

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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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Digging Deeper Reveals Tighter Wad; Freehills’ Executive Counsel

25 May 2009

A spate of rather venomous emails from Freehills lawyers compelled the Firm Spy to do some investigative journalism into the recently announced, yet mysterious, 'executive counsel' role. What is...

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Food Fight at Tress Cox: Fat Trimming Trims Lawyers But Fails to Slim Melbourne Partners’ Waistlines

13 October 2011

An anonymous spy sends word of trouble at Tress Cox.  Sounds like the full gamut of fairly typical issues for semi-integrated national firms: partnership squabbles, uninspiring leadership, brain d...

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