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Ex-Deacons, Minter Ellison Lawyer Melissa Hammett Makes Contact

16 December 2009

Attractive. Intelligent. Successful. Funny. Endearing. These are but a few of the adjectives that we would use describe the delightful, yet surprisingly unlucky-in-love former Deacons/Minters la...

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Firm Spy Remuneration Report – Allens Arthur Robinson Lawyer Salaries

16 November 2009

Following our very popular reports into the remuneration of lawyers at: Mallesons; Freehills; and Minter Ellison we today move onto the salaries paid to lawyers at Allens Arthur Robinson. A...

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Firm Spy Case Summary: Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No.1)

13 December 2010

Mitchell v Clayton Utz & Ors (No 1). In July 2009, Magistrate Hennessy of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT) considered an application filed by Mr Mitchell for leave to proceed ...

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Brisbanian Departure Ouch Amid Grant Thornton 2008 Merger Insight

6 April 2011

On Monday we welcomed our first ever gossip from mid-tier accounting firm Grant Thornton with allegations that an external auditor recently found evidence of number-fudging in the firm's books.. We...

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Staff “Haemorrhage”:Ernst & Young Considers Profit Distributions For All Tax Staff

13 June 2011

It has been a while since we've reported anything Big 4-related, so it was excellent to receive the following tip-off from an anonymous EY insider: Dear Firmspy, Just a quick piece of news that...

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Minter Ellison’s ‘Bomber Bower’ & The Papuan New Guinean Teenage Footballer

19 August 2009

On Friday last week we reported the revelation that Minter Ellison partner Scott Reid (in his capacity as an emissary of the AFL's mission to PNG) is presently sharing a house with Papua New Guinea...

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Updated LEAKED CEP EMAIL: Minter Ellison Loses WA Partnership to US Firm Squire Sanders

6 August 2011

The Acquirer When we heard the name "Squire Sanders" - the firm that negotiated the defection of almost the entirety of Minter Ellison's WA partnership - the first thing we thought about was finge...

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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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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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SETTLED: Rumoured Six-Figure Deal Ends ClizzoBridgetz as Manwhore Email Surfaces

28 November 2011

Australia's most rotten legal sex affair - ClizzoBridgetz -  has finally drawn to a close. Last week's settlement will mark an end to a chapter that has staggered even the most veteran legal...

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