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Mallesons ‘Fail Jail’; Firm Restructure Gives Useless Lawyers a Second Chance

18 May 2009

In a Firm Spy exclusive, we can today report some big changes at Australian top-tier heavyweight Mallesons Stephen Jaques.  According to one insider, the firm is proposing to scrap its competition...

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The Deloitte Deletes; Rumours of Secret Sackings Emerge

1 June 2009

The Firm Spy has championed the cause of Deloitte for months now. It was our understanding that whereas the partners at KPMG, PwC and Ernst & Young readily put personal profit ahead of the hope...

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Enter The WA Dragon: How The Clifford Chance/Mallesons Merger Rests On One Man

8 September 2010

The prospect of a Mallesons/Clifford Chance merger is a topic that has been utterly done to death by news media in the last year, including by us. We regularly receive updated intelligence on the s...

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UPDATE: Mallesons Rehires Redundant Secretary as Melbourne Environment Group Withers

18 March 2011

Last year, Mallesons headcount underwent a major contraction following its redundancy scheme. According to BRW, in FY 2009/2010, Mallesons booted a total of 13.1% of its workforce, moving employee ...

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Corrs Closes Doors: Gold Coast Office Closure

25 July 2008

In contrast to its graduate recrutiment page, which heralds to prospective graduates that 'Corrs opens Doors', Corrs Chambers Westgarth today loudly shut the doors to its Gold Coast Office. This mo...

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King & Wood Mallesons: The Shape of Things to Come?

28 November 2011

As has been widely reported, Mallesons partners voted last Wednesday to approve the merger with Chinese firm King & Wood.  Not that we thought they'd do otherwise, despite our controversia...

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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 We agree with the comments from Marco below and have thus withdrawn the post.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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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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Minters to Cut Travel Benefits, Tighten Taxi Policy

11 October 2011

An unhappy Minters spy sends word that the firm, in an effort to cut costs, is going to reduce the travel benefits it provides to staff.  Under the new policy: business class travel will be pr...

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