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Swaab Attorneys Archive

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Leaked Email From BDO’s Tony Schiffman; “Tracey Was Not Discriminated Against”

19 April 2011

On Thursday we reported the rumour that two separate legal proceedings involving mid-tier accounting firm BDO had been filed in Queensland. That rumour was quickly confirmed by several spies who em...

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Rumour; KPMG Settles Sexual Harassment Complaint Btw Partner/Consultant

23 November 2010

You'll recall last week we reported some good news and some bad news from Big4 firm KPMG: Good News: many staff would be receiving iPhone 4s; Bad News: allegations surfaced that the firm had ...

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Fox Tale; Charting Ex-DLA Phillips Fox Lawyer James Gorman’s Rise to the Top

17 September 2009

A regular target for the Firm Spy's opprobrium is the apparently soon to be formally internationally merged national law firm DLA Phillips Fox. But even we must take pause to acknowledge the aw...

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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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The Writing on the Allens Arthur Robinson Wall; SAs Look for “Retirements”

29 June 2010

A couple of weeks ago we reported that things were "ugly" at top-tier firm Allens Arthur Robinson after we had received the following rumour from an anonymous AAR spy: allens melbourne has now los...

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The KPMG Poo Poll; Take a Pay Cut, Take a Break or Get Out

9 June 2009

Mark Phillippoussis is apparently not the only half-wit who blew all his cash when times were better. The Firm Spy has been informed that much like the Poo, who begrudgingly sold his Hummer to repa...

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Linklaters Raid Gets Real: “Whole Raft” of Mallesons Finance Associates Jumping Ship

19 June 2011

Last week we noted that we're starting to see a major power shift towards lawyers at the junior end as lateral movements start to return to their pre-GFC glory days. We hardly spoke soon enough,...

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REDACTED: Defections, Claire Winton Burn & Trust in Clayton Utz ‘Relationship Contracting’

6 August 2010

Occasionally we get it wrong with our stories and this is one such instance. No, we don't think the content we previously published was inaccurate, it was just way too personal and irrelevant. We agree with the comments from Marco below and have thus withdrawn the post. Send the Firm Spy your news and views!

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Exclusive: Leaked Minter Ellison Email Exposes Partial Thaw of Pay Freeze

16 December 2009

We may have missed the scoop on the Freehills 'two-tiered' pay-freeze thaw (a major report on Freehills will be posted tomorrow, so check back for more on this), but today the Firm Spy is back wher...

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LOOK AT MOI! Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1st Lady Kath Day, The Filum & Model Anna Denton

16 April 2012

When last we wrote about the Corrs Chambers Westgarth Chief Executve Partner, John Denton, we referred to a perplexing article from our friends at ALB which pointed to a plausible connection betwee...

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