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Robert Milliner Archive

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Mallesons Exec Kate ‘Busta’ Rimer Tells Staff Not to Look Overseas

13 November 2009

Hypothetical scenario: Imagine you're the number 1 person at your firm in relation to staffing levels. Imagine further that at the very end of the GFC, your firm decided to implement a massive red...

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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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The Denis Brock Crock; Clifford Chance Defector Just Visiting Mallesons Best Friends

5 August 2010

We went looking for some news on Mallesons last night and stumbled onto an interesting piece. A cursory search on Google news revealed no less than three articles featuring a jubilant Mallesons boa...

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Blakes, Mallesons & Allens; The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

9 June 2010

Considered Clint Eastwood's greatest cinematic triumph, the 1966 classic spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a story (says Wikipedia) of three gunslingers competing to find a fortun...

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Mallesons Bloodlust; Employee Hearts Sink Over “Anemic” Pay Rises

5 July 2010

To have the ticker to pump decent pay rises into employee hearts and minds, partners must have enough blood money in the bank to share. That, or the promise or reasonable certainty of money to come...

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Minter Ellison Babe Mayhem: “We Loiter at Their Elevator Each Morning”

12 July 2011

It has been good news this month at Australia's largest law firm by revenue, Minter Ellison, who posted partnership growth of 2.4% for FY2011. The firm now has 296 partners, up from 289 last year (...

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Fox in the Night; Pests Shot in DLA Phillips Fox Redundancies

22 November 2008

A total of 20 staff have been made redundant at DLA Phillips Fox in recent weeks in a move that has shattered a perception of economic stability held by many at the firm. Foxes shot. Confidence ...

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JOB FEARS: 500 BDO Staffers Face Unemployment as BDO VIC/NSW Licence Pulled

12 March 2012

If BDO goes into administration on Monday, there will be a lot of good people unemployed.[Anonymous former BDO partner, AFR 10/3/12] Almost one year to the day that Firm Spy first reported the rum...

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HUMILIATED: Clayton Utz CEP Darryl McDonough Wins Place In Ernies Hall of Shame

19 October 2011

The first thing you're likely to notice upon visiting the Clayton Utz website is the honour roll. There's the BRW Client Choice Award 2011, the recommendation from the Legal 500, the "Foundatio...

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The Deloitte Delinquent; Spy Reveals Shocking New Rumours

25 June 2009

In what must be among the most candid insider assessments the Firm Spy has yet received comes the following  information from a Deloitte spy: I am an employee of Deloitte ... I have been active...

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