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Rigby Cooke Archive

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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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Firm Spy Downlow Award – Allens Arthur Robinson

23 September 2009

We thought it appropriate, in this huge week of Australian Rules Football, to pay homage to our national sport with the inaugural Firm Spy Downlow Award. Whereas the Brownlow is awarded to the fai...

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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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DLA Partner Allegedly Embroiled in Foxxxy Interracial Montana Fishburn Porno Scandal

16 August 2010

Earlier this year, we reported the news that DLA Phillips Fox was chasing a full-merger with its offshore affiliate DLA Piper. The AFR broke the story in August 2009 that DLA Phillips Fox was seeki...

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Slater & Gordon Acquisition of Keddies Faces Due Diligence Hurdle

26 October 2010

After a period of acquiring many regional-based personal injury practices, Slater & Gordon has today signalled its intention to make its biggest, and in our view most risky, acquisition. In ...

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Firm Spy PR Award; Sharon Bell Answers PwC PR SOS

27 August 2009

The Firm Spy has been understandably scathing of PwC's response to the GFC. We thought two waves of redundancies, a veiled pay reduction, and rumours causing general employee angst warranted our co...

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Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2)

12 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 2) In January 2010, Magistrate Hennessy of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell to correct orders a...

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Fail 2 Subjects & You’re ‘Fired’; PwC Introduces CA Policy

10 November 2009

In response to a recent post profiling suspicious survey results suggesting PWC is a 'top employer', we received the following comments from an anonymous PWC spy in relation to a revised Chartered Accountancy study policy: ... There are a lot of extremely pissed of employees at PwC feeling a little bit like indentured slaves that get dictated everything. [First] a ... pay cut to take ‘flexible’ leave. [Second]That there is no overtime system anymore (not that TOIL was awesome, but at least it was something). now CA. This firm just does not stop - graduates stay away and make sure you ask questions about how long your are locked in for if you want to do CA! PwC can now fire you if you fail 2 subjects. It’s all under the ‘policy’. Payraises were so bad this year that 2nd year...

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Aconex Heartbreaker; Allens Arthur Arrow to the Chest

14 February 2011

With Valentine's Day sending hearts aflutter across the nation, we couldn't think of a better time than today to send AAR pulses racing with blood-curdling allegations that the firm has been making...

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Confirmed: DLA Phillips Fox Pay Freeze & Second-Wave Redundancies

21 May 2009

Always quick to act when partner profits are jeopardised, having been among the very first firms to sack workers at the outset of the GFC, DLA Phillips Fox is apparently at it again. We received...

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