A couple of little snippets on the Firm Spy blog..
Reveals that things aren’t that rosy for legal graduates in Australia at the moment.
See the full versions of the stories at http://firmspy.com.au/
Here’s Johnny! Corrs Chambers Westgarth Set to Reduce Graduate Intake
14 July 2009
In an article profiling the reduction in graduate jobs across major Australian corporate firms, appearing in the AFR (6/7), Corrs Chambers Westgarth national recruitment partner Chris Pagent remarked:
Most firms will decrease the number of offers, which means more competition. It will be an interesting year for clerkship applications and we will be the beneficiaries of that.
Fresh Claims of Clayton Utz Graduate Redundancies
July 10th, 2009
It emerged earlier in the week that hard-up Latvians, unable to procure a traditional bank loan, can now pledge their soul as security for a revolutionary loan scheme pioneered by the Kontora Loan Company: Clients have to sign a contract, with the words “Agreement” in bold letters at the top. The client agrees to the collateral, “that […]
Here’s to You, Mrs Robinson; More Insights into AAR ‘Voluntary’ Redundancy Scheme
July 10th, 2009
The orignial MILF, Mrs Robinson was the lead character in The Graduate: a film that enshrined her for all time as the Sexy Older Woman… the seducer of a generation. While we wouldn’t care to sully her cinematic legacy, or the associated chart-topping song, it seems that a real life Robinson is apparently seducing audiences even today, though in […]
Law Firm Graduate Intake Statistics 2009
July 8th, 2009
Thanks to the AFR (3/7) for the following statistics of graduates taken by firms since the start of the year: AAR 77 Arnold Bloch Leibler 11 Baker & McKenzie 13 Blake Dawson 77 Clayton Utz 70 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 53 Deacons 43 DibbsBarker 12 better odds than getting a graduate job DLA Phillips Fox 27 Freehills 96 Gadens 23 Gilbert & Tobin 13 Hall & Wilcox 7 Henry Davis York 7 Herbert Geer 5 Holding Redlich 12 Hunt & Hunt 7 HWL Ebsworth 16 Kennedy Strang 12 Lander & Rogers 12 Maddocks 16 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 143 Middletons 26 Minter Ellison 104 Moray & Agnew 6 Piper […]
