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Squire Sanders Archive

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More Graduate Statistics; Vacation Clerk to Graduate Progression Percentage

16 September 2009

We thought it was worth replicating two of this week's posts to calculate the odds that a vacation clerk will be offered a graduate job among major Australian law firms. That is, by contrasting the...

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Talking the Talk at Henry Davis York; Times are Great!

15 December 2008

GFC? What GFC? Like Clayton Utz and Freehills in recent days, Henry Davis York has come out with comments which are either a calculated effort to allay lawyer employment fears, or a genuine indi...

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Kill Bill; Minter Ellison’s Redundancy Firing-Line Exposed

17 September 2009

When news is slow (like this week), the team at the Firm Spy needs to work a little harder. But our pain is your gain with this little gem that almost slipped through the cracks! We reported in ...

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REDACTED – Firm Spy: Consummate “Communications Professionals” & a Pain in Your Firm’s Butt

30 August 2010

We spent a reasonable chunk of the last 48 hours researching the difference between journalism and communications/public relations.  No, we're not "communications professionals", so a bit of research was necessary. For thoe unitiated, communications/PR staff are employed by many professional services firms primarily to shape public perceptions of their firm in positive ways. Part of this role involves regular interaction with journalists: Comms/PR staff are experts in dealing with journalists. They often provide journalists with an "official" comment from the firm on a particular news item which invariably results in the firm being positively perceived in any subsequent news article. Websites like Lawyers Weekly, ALB and The New Lawyer are industry paragons in this regard. These ...

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Lack of MOMENTUM; Clayton Utz Stripped of Employer Credentials

11 March 2010

Earlier this week, the federal governement, through its Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), named 12 Australian law firms that support women in the workplace. Those named were: Corrs Chambers Wegarth, Baker & McKenzie, AAR, Blakes, Cooper Grace Ward, Freehills, Holding Redlich, G+T, Maddocks, Mallesons, McCullough Robertson and Sparke Helmore. One firm was conspicuous in its absence - Clayton Utz. We received the following comments from an anonymous spy last night in relation to the non-appearance of Clutz this year: Six is an interesting number. Six is the number of new partners @ Clutz - all male. It is also, according to what firmspy would have us beleive the number of grdauates - all female who were terminated by Clutz in Melbourne. Considering ...

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This Year’s Winners: Minters, Freehills & Blakes – Top Tier Revenue Stats Revealed

30 August 2011

Some highly interesting stats in the current edition of BRW (25/08). It is the BRW Top 500 Private Companies edition and it records the FY 2010/11 revenue results of all of Australia's major law fi...

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The Age & Post-Script To Our Interview With Mallesons CEP Robert Milliner

8 November 2011

We've taken a bit of heat regarding the Robert Milliner interview. Turns out The Age were interested in the story and asked us a few questions for the purposes of an article that eventually wound u...

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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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The Sounds of Silence: Robinson’s ResAARrection & the Indolence of Mainstream Media

25 March 2011

Two weeks have now passed since AllensGate done got real, and there's still nary a mention of the sorry saga in any of our favourite Friday legal rags.  This has led some spies to wonder why -- is...

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Chocolate Biscuits GONE Following Cuts in PWC Discretionary Spend

26 October 2009

Thanks to the PWC spy who sent us the following comments in response to our recent story that some PWC are rumoured to have been told to start looking for a new job: I also work at PwC and hav...

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