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Muscial Chairs; DLA Phillips Fox Sackings Amid Rumoured Floor Consolidation

30 June 2009

After our report on the KPMG tenancy reduction, we received the following information from a DLA Phillips Fox spy on the weekend: DLAPF Adelaide is on the hunt again. Five more support staff axed ...

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I Can’t Believe it’s Not: A PwC Pay Freeze

13 May 2009

Whereas other corporate services firms, such as Minters, Freehills and Allens, have been forthright in announcing firm-wide pay-freezes, global accounting giant PwC has quietly gone about implement...

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Former Minter Ellison Partner Simon Alroe Creates Blog Site

29 September 2009

Recently de-equitised Minter Ellison partner Simon Alroe, the subject of an apparent Survivor-style 'voting off the island', has created his very own blog. Alroe, who the Sunshine Coast Daily re...

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Slopping Out: Mallesons Fail Jail Now Facing Tenancy Squeeze in Melbourne

6 July 2009

It was reported in May that female inmates at an Irish penitentiary were being forced to share over-crowded cells: Thirty female prisoners – including two pregnant inmates – were "crammed" int...

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‘Falling to Pieces’; KPMG Finds Poo Poll Loophole

26 November 2009

It has been far too long since the Firm Spy has received anything from its (formerly very lively) KPMG spies. Nothing really substantial, in fact, since we broke news that the KPMG Poo Poll had rec...

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High Price Paid by Junior Staff as PriceWaterhouseCoopers Axes Many Staff

21 November 2008

Confirmation today that PWC, the 'big four' accounting firm, has been forced to shed staff in response to the dire economic times. An incredible 30 staff have been made redundant in a move that as ...

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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; DLA Merger Talks Intensify Amid Absence of “Financials”

17 March 2010

We reported in August 2009, in a post entitled "DLA Phillips Fox(t)rot; Formal Merger DLA Piper Sought", that national mid-tier firm DLA Phillips Fox was seeking an early 2010 formal financial integration with DLA Piper. In the current edition of BRW, incoming DLA Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland sheds some light on the prospects of a full merger: After just three weeks in the role, most recently managing partner of DLA Piper's Dubai office, has been forced to defend the Australian firm's merger talks with his former firm... Holland said negotiations were going well but stops short of offering a time line for completion. However. a global DLA Piper partner's conference in May could lead to a more definitive time frame... "All I can say is our relationship with DLA P...

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Deloitte’s Damien Tampling Warns Against Facebook Ads … As Deloitte Advertises on Facebook

9 February 2012

The trouble with a large corporate partnership is that individual partners can occasionally make a comment that contradicts the firm's official stance on an issue. Take Deloitte's Damien Tampling f...

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Slater & Gordon Acquisition of Keddies Faces Due Diligence Hurdle

26 October 2010

After a period of acquiring many regional-based personal injury practices, Slater & Gordon has today signalled its intention to make its biggest, and in our view most risky, acquisition. In ...

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Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame Morphs into Firm-Wide PR Disaster

29 May 2009

Two days ago the Firm Spy commented on the sick timing of Minter Ellison's decision to publicise its alumni network 'Remember Me'. Of all the times in history in which P&D Coordinator Kerrie Bo...

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