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Wotton Kearney Archive

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Ex-Baker & McKenzie Partner Anthony Brearley an Alleged Fugitive

28 July 2009

You do not want to be an alleged fraudster in Dubai. The tribulations of convicted frauster George Atkinson and his 'living hell' spending six 'spirit breaking' years in a Dubai jail illustrate thi...

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Former Lawyer of Tina Arena and Kylie Minogue to be Investigated

26 June 2009

Pop princess Kylie Minogue's former lawyer, Michael Brereton, has been investigated on claims of common law misconduct, as reported in Legal Services Commissioner v Brereton [2008] VCAT 1723. Ha...

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“Lock Up Your Daughters”: UniMelb Comm/Law Grad Neil Cannon Is On The Loose

17 October 2011

Back towards the start of the year, Citibank welcomed a slew of graduates into the investment banking fold, primed for grueling hours and grunt work. Except for Neil Cannon, who, according to an em...

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Pants Down! Freehills Lawyer Photographed By Perverted Cleaner

4 March 2010

We were dismayed to find out this morning that a rumour, heard several months ago by a Firm Spy team member but later dismissed because it appeared too farcical, is in fact legitimate. Yes, a perverted former Freehills cleaner with voyeuristic urges took it upon himself one evening late last year, on his nightly dunny-scrub, to photograph an unsuspecting Freehills lawyer perched atop the throne! Oh behave! As reported by The Age: A FORMER cleaner who aimed a camera at a woman in the toilets at Melbourne law firm Freehills faces a possible jail sentence. Rodrigo Garcia, 27, entered a cubicle in the Collins Street building after placing a cleaning sign outside the male toilets. Leading Senior Constable Stuart Hastings yesterday told Melbourne Magistrates Court that about...

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Savage Garden; Clayton Utz v Bridgette Styles Litigation Crisis Deepens

9 March 2011

The Clayton Utz website is a bit like the Firm Spy's backyard - out of date and underloved. We took a tour of the Clutz internet offering several days ago and noticed that the firm's Litigation &am...

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Economic Dawn of the Dead; Sun Sets on AAR Pay Rises

30 October 2009

In an excellent article in today's Australian profiling the likely exodus from law firms in the new year - owing to long hours for low, frozen pay while fat cat partners laugh all the way to the bank - the following is written: Susan Ferrier, director of people and development at Allens Arthur Robinson -- which has a pay freeze -- said the firm wanted to avoid quickly changing policies on recruitment in case the latest signs of improvement were a "false economic dawn".  "Post-Christmas I think many professional services organisations will have a clearer picture of where things are going in the economy," she said. The Firm Spy has profiled, and commented upon, a wide array of wanker corporate idioms, but "false economic dawn" is a new one and a particularly offensive way, we think, of...

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Neil “Whoppers” Wilson Recruits “Propaganda” Chief as PwC Staff Paid Bonuses

12 April 2010

You'll recall we reported on the utterly remarkable story of PwC's formerly man-breasted COO, Neil Wilson, in early March. Wilson revealed to the AFR that: “Since his chubby adolescence [he] had...

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Fireball Burns Mallesons Environment Group Amid Questions Over Junior Welfare

5 August 2011

In March we reported conflicting rumours regarding Mallesons' Environment Practice, specifically in Melbourne. We received reports that the group was in a parlous state, bleeding staff and unable t...

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Clayton Utz Partner Joe Catanzariti Intimidates Sacked Worker

11 September 2009

Splashed arcoss national media yesterday was yet another sordid tale emanating out of besieged national law firm Clayton Utz. It involved a sacked Clutz lawyer, Michael Mitchell, who apparently sen...

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Deal or No Deal? Andrew O’Keefe Asked to Move AAR Articled Clerk Admissions

2 January 2009

Disgraced host of Channel 7 game show 'Deal or No Deal', Andrew O'Keefe, is presently deliberating over whether to accept an invitation from a group of Allens Arthur Robinson Melbourne Articled Cle...

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