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Optim Legal Archive

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Mallesons ‘Fail Jail’; Firm Restructure Gives Useless Lawyers a Second Chance

18 May 2009

In a Firm Spy exclusive, we can today report some big changes at Australian top-tier heavyweight Mallesons Stephen Jaques.  According to one insider, the firm is proposing to scrap its competition...

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Middletons Merges With Brisbane Firm Flower & Hart as Baker & McKenzie Considers QLD Office

23 January 2012

Australia's 15th largest law firm by revenue Middletons became slightly bigger on Friday with the announcement that it would merge with Birsbane firm Flower & Hart. Middletons currently has a p...

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A Question of Relevance; New Details Emerge in Minter Ellison/Qld Health “Deception” Allegations

28 April 2010

We reported last Friday a parliamentary question asked on notice to the Qld Minister for Health in which it was alleged that: solicitors representing Qld Health ... fabricated reasons in order to ...

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UPDATE Surprise Spoiled: Mallesons Staffers to Receive Dodgey Gift to Memorialise King Mallesons’ Wood Merger

29 February 2012

What better way to leverage newly forged links with China than with a cheap t-shirt manufactured in Chinese sweatshop? It would at once be a poetic symbol of the globalisation of the manufacturing ...

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UPDATE: MAN WHO’RE Bridgette Styles & Clayton Utz? FS Answers the Big Questions

23 June 2011

Last week the AFR in our view undersold the gravity of the Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles litigation nightmare. The newspaper referred to it, rather triflingly, as a "lingering PR headache". It is ...

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Grant Thornton “Death Star” Lost In Space After Triple Merger Fail

25 August 2011

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.  That, at least, seems to be the motto at Grant Thornton, known affectionately to its staff as the "Death Star".  According to our tipster, the firm ...

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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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Manhunt Update: Swindling Ex-Minters CFO Arrested at Sydney Airport

4 October 2011

We just received word from an anonymous tipster that wanted fugitive Craig Raneberg has been arrested at Sydney Airport.  Here's the tip: Craig Raneberg (ex-CFO Minter Ellison Adelaide) was c...

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Norton Rose Clerkship Applicants Wait By The Phone, Typing Angry Emails

28 September 2011

A phone call, or at the very least a automatically generated email, is not too much to ask in today's technological age.  Simply pick up the phone. Or call someone in IT and give them the email di...

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How Much Do They Earn? Freehills Partner Salaries Exposed

9 December 2010

Over the last few months, the PR teams at a couple of major law firms have taken to emailing Firm Spy with various propaganda media releases ostensibly aimed at generating positive media sentiments...

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