Well… we think so.
We’ve highlighted a couple of FirmSpy stories over the past few weeks but their latest round up shows that at long last somebody has managed to get around the secretive culture of Aus law firms and lawyers in general… all we can do is congratulate them and hope that they can keep up the good work without having to suffer too many pointless lawsuits – we see Leyton Hewitt has already threatened legal action ! We have only one suggestion – that picture editor need to work just a little harder — too close to Roll On Friday pictures and captions.
Here are their latest stories.
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Precedents Pass Use-By Date in DLA Phillips Fox Redundancies
May 29th, 2009
Denuto demonstrates the importance of having up-to-date precedents Always first to break the big news stories, as was the case with the DLA Phillips Fox mass redundancies, the Firm Spy can today also reveal that many of the sacked workers are rumoured to have been precedents staff. We received the following anonymous tip last night: What firm would get rid […]
Lleyton Hewitt Threatens Legal Action Over Firm Spy Article
May 29th, 2009
Dumb bogans; theyre out there! We must be doing something right: earlier this week , solicitors for ‘cashed-up bogan’ duo Lleyton & Bec Hewitt wrote to the Firm Spy threatening legal action unless we edited a post and issue a public apology. Well Lleyton, without admitting liability or endorsing your seriously hilarious views on the law […]
Can Touch This; Freehills’ Casual-Clothes Friday on Chopping Block
May 29th, 2009
Top-tier Tightwad Freehills, having already smothered office morale with a pay-freeze announced just three months MC Hammer – keen to project a professional image after the firm declared that it could beat the GFC, appears to have a new target – casual-clothes Friday. The queer musings of self-proclaimed ‘people partner’ Peter Butler have raised questions over the future of […]
Mallesons Blocks Facebook: Secretaries Devastated
May 29th, 2009
A Mallesons secretary surfing Facebook yesterday. 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. Another tipster wrote that ‘technical reasons’ were behind the block. Strange, you’d think that with all this […]
Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame Morphs into Firm-Wide PR Disaster
May 29th, 2009
Two days ago the Firm Spy commented on the sick timing of Minter Ellison’s decision to publicise its alumni network Air traffic controllers – yet another unnecessary role ‘Remember Me’. Of all the times in history in which P&D Coordinator Kerrie Bowden could have trumpeted Minters’ alumni network, she chose one week after dozens of workers were […]
Sacked & ‘Angry’; ex-Sparke Helmore/Clayton Utz Lawyer Stars on Network 10’s ‘Masterchef’
May 28th, 2009
It is little wonder that Tom Mosby, a former Sparke Helmore and Clayton Utz lawyer, has decided to ditch the suit for an apron. People always need food, though not, as is becoming increasingly evident, fat and arrogant lawyers. Mosby was one of several Sparke Helmore lawyers made redundant late last year. In his biography for the […]
‘We Will Starve’; PwC Staff Outrage at Rumoured Mass Partner Retirements
May 28th, 2009
As reported in today’s Finacial Review against the wishes of the PwC partnership: A PwC associate, pictured right, starves …it is understood between 40 and 50 partners were given the option [of a payout] to leave the firm before June 30 or remain in their position to tough out the downturn… PwC spokesperson Danielle Hinwood… said retirement […]
Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame; An Alumni Network PR Stunt to Forget
May 27th, 2009
Just one week after unceremoniously sacking dozens of work A Minters lawyer, also a model, suffers from PR nausea ers, Minter Ellison has made the nauseatingly ill-timed decision to publicize its alumni network ‘Remember Me’. In an article appearing in the current edition of BRW, people and development director Kerrie Bowden is quoted as saying: We want to utilise people who […]
Cruel Twist; Clayton Utz Unpaid Leave of Absence Followed by Pay Freeze
May 26th, 2009
With questions still being asked about Clayton Utz’s conduct in relation to the pay freeze uncovered by the A Clutz lawyer on an involuntary leave of absence Firm Spy, we can today report that, at least for some Clayton Utz staff, it came on the back of an unpaid leave of absence at the behest of the firm. We […]
