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Mallesons World Cup Babes, A&O Defector David Poddar & Jana “Drama” Pittman

28 June 2010

Congratulations to the AFR legal affairs team for their excellent work last Friday. For those of you who missed it, we suggest you get your hands on last Friday's AFR and read the annual Partnershi...

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Corporate Wizardry; Mallesons Announces Voluntary Redundancy Scheme

30 July 2009

Mallesons Stephen Jaques is reported to have yesterday announced a voluntary redundancy scheme open to all employees. The firm apparently hopes to shed an incredible 5% of staff with the scheme. ...

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AAR Partner Paul Quinn, Performance-Based Salary & The Lack of “Champions”

15 January 2010

AAR partner Paul Quinn uttered in his Business Spectator column earlier this week that junior lawyers should be remunerated based on performance. As reported by our friends at ALB: associate salaries have remained on a lockstep structure ... and "none of the arguments, in my view, present a compelling case to rule out performance based remuneration for lawyers ...  a strong and transparent performance culture is a good thing". We can think of a good reason Paul; for example when your firm does not have a "transparent performance culture" and young lawyers do not possess a "champion". Late last year an anonymous AAR spy wrote us the following ...Allens Arthur Robinson’smanagement are aware that legal salaries across all levels are below market rate (although this has not been ac...

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Sticking it to Minter Ellison; Xmas in July Morale Mission Falls Flat

19 July 2010

Our friends inside Minter Ellison have repeatedly told us in recent weeks that quality lawyers are departing the firm in unprecedented numbers. Preliminary results on the FIrm Spy Remuneration Surv...

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Step on Board the Allens PR Vomit Comet

18 October 2010

Thanks to the Spy (not, apparently, from Allens) who alerted us to the latest example of self-congratulating (*cough* self-promotional) law firm awards.  Allens, it seems, has been named 'Employer...

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“Emotional Interaction”; Freehills’ Mark Rigotti Introduces Psycho Empty Chair Technique

12 February 2011

Our English-based pals at Roll on Friday delivered an excellent scoop a few days ago regarding the implementation of a new initiative at Freehills: Freehills has taken mad management group-think t...

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Billion Dollar Bull Dust! Giam “Germ” Swiegers Shouts Staffers Day Off After “Execution” FAIL

17 May 2012

With the ink barely dry on his gutwrentchingly poor decision to warn sh*t-scared staffers that "you execute, or you're executed", Deloitte CEO Giam (pronounced "Germ") Swiegers realised that someth...

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Minter Ellison Partners “Porno Forno” & “Horny Horsley” Allegedly Sent Simon Alroe Packing

16 October 2009

It has taken many phone calls to our sources all across the country to try to get to the bottom of what actually happened to cause Minter Ellison to de-equitise Simon Alroe from the partnership. This is what we have come up with, thanks to an anonymous spy: Minters partners Trent Forno (known by everyone in the industry as "Porno" Forno) and Ken Horsley (known "Horny" Horsley) were the brains behind the partnership decision to report Alroe's alleged harassment to the Qld Law Society. They did this with a view to having Alroe struck off the roll of solicitors. They took this action despite an offer being made by Ian Hangar QC to the partnership to mediate, which they rejected out of hand. Alroe has retained a silk in his criminal dispute as well as a different silk in his partn...

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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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Update on Freehills Leading Practices Review & Some Housekeeping

20 May 2011

First up, we made a decision last night that all comments now have to be moderated before they get published. We originally required moderation and subsequently decided to allow people who had rece...

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