Good morning everyone! It’s Tuesday, December 15, and here’s a snapshot of yesterday’s news… Loeb & Loeb is opening in Washington… The Supreme Court will review a government employee’s right to privacy for text messages received on government owned equipment… Zico is setting up shop in Australia, the first Asian firm to do so… Seyfarth Shaw gets a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
A new survey of Australian law firm partners shows plummeting incomes and soaring stress levels. Mahlab Recruitment reports that partner salaries are down by over 5% in Sydney, and 4% in Melbourne. Last year, partners in both cities saw an 11% increase. The survey also says that firms have been quietly booting under-performing partners for the last [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Commercial law firm Mallesons will begin a redundancy consultation in August, targeting 5% of the firm’s workforce. The redundancies are being characterized as voluntary, and will affect 100 lawyers and staff. Some lawyers will be offered more than one year’s pay. The offers are to include a payment based on years of service, an additional stipend, and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Keddies Lawyers has been conducting stealth layoffs, with some 40 firm employees, both lawyers and staff, shown the door. The latest redundancies went into effect last week. If you have any details about layoffs at Keddies Lawyers, such as layoff dates and the number of lawyers affected, please send us a confidential tip! Keddies Lawyers is a workers [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
Allens Arthur Robinson, which in April offered up to one year’s pay to lawyers who take voluntary redundancies, has seen 114 employees take up the offer and leave the firm. The redundancies included lawyers, corporate services staff, and secretaries. Twelve people who asked for voluntary redundancies were refused.As By offering the voluntary redundancies, Allens Arthur says it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Deacons Australia will join the Norton Rose Group. The decision follows successful votes by the respective partnerships yesterday. The new international legal practice will be called Norton Rose Group, and will take effect from January 1st, 2010. The new Norton Rose Group will have more than 1,800 fee earners in 29 offices worldwide. Norton Rose will be led [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 15, 2009
Melbourne, Australia’s Hall & Wilcox apparently has not heard that major law firms are shedding lawyers and freezing or cutting pay. The full-service commercial firm, which had its annual meeting this week, will not be implementing pay freezes this year, and in fact is promising pay increases for certain staff by the end of this month. It [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 14, 2009
Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland will provide AUD $40,000 ($32,500) to the National Pro Bono Resource Centre, to create paying work for unemployed lawyers, and for employed lawyers who need pro bono hours. The project helps provide pro bono assistance in regional and rural areas of Australia. Located at the Law School of the University of New South [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 4, 2009
Corrs has delayed the start dates for its 2009 recruits, paying stipends of US$1,740 each. In March, the firm implemented a firm-wide salary freeze. There may be individual exceptions, and the firm stressed that the pay freeze is not performance related. Corrs Chambers Westgarth is an Australian commercial law firm founded in 1841. It has offices in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Thomson Playford has laid off 19 lawyers and five staff in its Sydney and Adelaide, Australia offices. Thomson Playford Cutlers is a full service commercial law firm with offices in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, with 200 lawyers and 350 staff. In August 2008, the firm was ranked as one of the top 25 law firms in Australia [...]
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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