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Mullins Lawyers Archive

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The Deloitte Deletes; Rumours of Secret Sackings Emerge

1 June 2009

The Firm Spy has championed the cause of Deloitte for months now. It was our understanding that whereas the partners at KPMG, PwC and Ernst & Young readily put personal profit ahead of the hope...

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Clayton Utz Partner Joe Catanzariti Intimidates Sacked Worker

11 September 2009

Splashed arcoss national media yesterday was yet another sordid tale emanating out of besieged national law firm Clayton Utz. It involved a sacked Clutz lawyer, Michael Mitchell, who apparently sen...

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ClizzoBridgetz: Latest Developments in Australia’s Most Rotten Legal Sex Affair

6 July 2011

"Scorned lover". "Whispering campaign". "Locker room banter". "Spading other girls". "Looking for his next victim". "Being such a slut". "Taking advantage of her". "A raving idiot". "She felt haras...

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Losing its Religion; Clayton Utz Crucified By More Partnership Defections

16 March 2010

By our count, the following things have happened at besieged national law firm Clayton Utz in 2010: 14 very profitable, well respected partners defected from the firm to build two Australian offices of Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy; the firm sacked over 30% of its Melbourne graduates; a former employee has been given leave to pursue further claims against the firm for alleged sexual harassment and bullying; the firm was stripped of its credentials as an employer of choice for women by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency; and a librarian has created considerable controversy by hording an inordinate amount of firm fruit. Holy moly! We are particularly upset at the sacking of the graduates. This is frankly a disgrace and all partners concerned shoul...

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Update on Freehills Leading Practices Review & Some Housekeeping

20 May 2011

First up, we made a decision last night that all comments now have to be moderated before they get published. We originally required moderation and subsequently decided to allow people who had rece...

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Apple vs Google Tech Fight Sees Bitter Freehills/Blake Dawson Courtroom Showdown

4 August 2011

The Samsung inhouse team clearly needs to spend less time working and more time trawling online gossip blogs. We were dismayed to learn, moreover, that the company decided to entrust the fate of it...

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The Wine Guzzler; Corrs Chambers Wesgarth Emerges as International Merger Target

18 May 2010

Yesterday we asked our spies to respond to a call for information on the rife speculation that another major international law firm merger is in the offing. This precipitated a flood of anonymous e...

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Allens Arthur Robinson Offers Staff 4-Day Working Week

27 October 2009

It came as news to us that national top-tier firm Allens Arthur Robinson recently offered staff a 4-day working week. As reported in the current BRW: Allens Arthur Robinson managing partner Mic...

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EXCLUSIVE: Firm Spy One-on-One Interview With Retiring Mallesons Chief Executive Partner Robert Milliner

4 November 2011

Since our inception many moons ago we have tended, rightly or wrongly, to single out the figureheads, or Chief Executive Partners, of the various firms about which we write.  The Spy takes the vie...

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’20% Over Budget’; Blake Dawson Partners Laugh All The Way To The Bank

8 December 2009

When does the point come when partners can feel convinced that the economic uptick is not just a "false economic dawn"? Where is the juncture that partners agree that the GFC is over and decide to ...

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