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Salvos Legal Archive

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Incredible Update on AAR Lawyer Salaries & Performance Reviews

19 November 2009

Sounds like some of the figures we reported earlier in the week in the Allens Arthur Highway Robbery Robinson Lawyer Salary Report were off the mark. If you believe the comments of the anonymous AAR spy below, anyhow. The comments about the successful achievement of its "distribution curve", if true, offer the most candid insight into how Allens' partners are using tactical performance management to, at best, reduce lawyer salaries and, at worst, open up the possibility of reduced headcount. The target billable hours published for Allens Arthur Robinson are wrong. Accurate targets are: Law Graduate (unadmitted, equivalent of articled clerk or UK trainee): 4.5 hours ($67k incl superannuation) 1st year Lawyer: 6.1 hours (approx $68K includig superannuation) 2+ Lawyer: 6.5 hours (appro...

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Clayton Utz Bans Graduates/Seasonal Clerks From Using Term “Mate”

19 October 2010

It has unbelievably been months since we have published anything substantial on embattled national law firm Clayton Utz. So it was with arms wide open (like embracing a forgotten mate) that we welc...

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Norton Rose Partner Michael Tooma Disharmoniously Defends Current Bullying Laws

4 November 2010

As many of our readers working in employment law are doubtlessly by now aware, the Victorian Government recently announced potential changes to workplace laws that would create tougher penalties fo...

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Office Meltdowns Loom as KPMG Cuts Leave Entitlements of CA Students

22 September 2010

Thanks to the anonymous KPMG spy who sent us the following number-crunching hullabaloo: Most accountants doing their CA usually take a week and a half off work to study for each exam. However, we ...

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COORDINATED SKULDUGGERY: Ernst & Young Allegedly Makes Dozens Redundant on Same Day as KPMG

23 March 2012

The clostest thing we can think to liken it to involves a property vendor engaging a real estate agent to sell a house. Simple enough scenario, but the real estate agent discovers early in the "sal...

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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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AAR Loses Head (Count) After Short Jab, Upper Cut & Knockout Blow

7 July 2010

In a fistful of cinematic scenes that won't soon be forgotten, boxing underdog Rocky Balboa took viewers  literally step  by step through the elaborate training regimen that prepared him for hi...

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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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Firm Spy Remuneration Report; Freehills Lawyer Salaries

4 November 2009

Following from Monday's report into the remuneration of staff at Mallesons, we today move onto the reported salaries of Freehills, the equal second largest Australian law firm by revenue in 2008/20...

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Can Touch This; Freehills’ Casual-Clothes Friday on Chopping Block

29 May 2009

Top-tier Tightwad Freehills, having already smothered office morale with a pay-freeze announced just three months after the firm declared that it could beat the GFC,  appears to have a new target ...

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