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pay reduction Archive

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Leaked KPMG Email Reveals Shocking Staff Over-Utilisation & “Maximum Assurance”

9 June 2010

We reported last week the news that KPMG is in the midst of a major outflow of skilled workers, in particular from audit. Not to mention the very troubling loss of the MONTE CARLOS. Today we bui...

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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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The Phillips Fox(t)rot; Adelaide Office Gains Financial Independence

26 March 2010

We reported last week that full merger talks between Australian law firm DLA Phillips Fox and its international affiliate DLA Piper had been thwarted. That is, the incoming Phillips Fox Chief Executive Partner Tony Holland hadn't yet had an opportunity to get across "the financials" of the merger. Tony's task of getting across these mysterious "financials", apparently just got a little easier. If our anonymous DLAPF spy is to be believed, he ought to consign the figures coming from his Adelaide office to the bin: DLAPF/DLA Piper merger? DLAPF Adelaide is now financially independent of the wider firm. It happened a couple of months ago, very quietly. Very quietly indeed! We certainly haven't read anything in the press. This news is at odds with the firm's Australian website which pr...

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REDACTED – Firm Spy: Consummate “Communications Professionals” & a Pain in Your Firm’s Butt

30 August 2010

We spent a reasonable chunk of the last 48 hours researching the difference between journalism and communications/public relations.  No, we're not "communications professionals", so a bit of research was necessary. For thoe unitiated, communications/PR staff are employed by many professional services firms primarily to shape public perceptions of their firm in positive ways. Part of this role involves regular interaction with journalists: Comms/PR staff are experts in dealing with journalists. They often provide journalists with an "official" comment from the firm on a particular news item which invariably results in the firm being positively perceived in any subsequent news article. Websites like Lawyers Weekly, ALB and The New Lawyer are industry paragons in this regard. These ...

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Wayne’s World: Norton Rose Canberra Office Rumoured To Face Closure

23 August 2011

There was plenty of fanfare last week as Norton Rose announced that Don "Dubya" Boyd would be replaced as the firm's Australian figurehead by Wayne Spanner. 'It's Wayne's World, Wayne's World - par...

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How Much Do They Earn? Clayton Utz Partner Salaries Revealed

21 December 2010

How will your firm look in 2015? "I'm very certain that we are going to be a very successful and strong firm." (Clayton Utz Chief Executive Partner David Fagan, 25/06/2010) Today marks t...

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Minter Ellison Partner Supports Homeless Papua New Guinean Teenager

14 August 2009

Minter Ellison partner Scott Reid is a busy bee. In between being a respected partner in his firm's litigation group, Reid finds time to head the Australian Football League's mission to spread foot...

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Mallesons Blocks Facebook: Secretaries Devastated

29 May 2009

It had to happen sooner or later.  One anonymous tipster writes to the Firm Spy that: at mallesons not only did they get the pay freeze last week, but this week they've cut off access to facebook...

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Talking the Talk at Henry Davis York; Times are Great!

15 December 2008

GFC? What GFC? Like Clayton Utz and Freehills in recent days, Henry Davis York has come out with comments which are either a calculated effort to allay lawyer employment fears, or a genuine indi...

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Leaked Youtube Video Controversy as Baker & McKenzie’s Chris Freeland Takes Centre Stage

20 August 2010

A reasonably de riguer portfolio of legal-media platitudes greeted Chris Freeland last week as he commenced his new role as national managing partner of Baker & McKenzie. Freeland, a recent  G...

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