The legal gossip website Firm Spy has been banned by two top tier firms, Mallesons and Clayton Utz.
The site - which publishes news and gossip from informants across the country - styles itself as a platform for users to be heard "without fear of committing a Career Limiting Move". And it can, from time to time, be pretty brutal when it comes to reporting on law firm goss. So, with redundancies a plenty at Mallesons and Clayton Utz during the GFC (not to mention the odd mass defection to A&O) and rumours of foul play when it comes to performance reviews, there's been plenty written about them in recent times.
But it's not just the bad press that's upsetting the two firms. A major beef, according to news.com, is that the website's anonymous authors don't always seek a right of reply before publishing. Even RollOnFriday confronts the accused before writing about them...
Mallesons is on the record as having banned the site because it had started to get personal. "We had traditionally given staff access to the site, but it had recently started to publish material of a personal nature about individual staff at various firms, not just ours, that had nothing to do with legal issues" . Clutz apparently killed it for similar reasons.
However all the hoo hah doesn't seem to have done Firm Spy much damage. It seems that all the extra traffic generated by the controversy caused the to crash for a brief period.
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The site - which publishes news and gossip from informants across the country - styles itself as a platform for users to be heard "without fear of committing a Career Limiting Move". And it can, from time to time, be pretty brutal when it comes to reporting on law firm goss. So, with redundancies a plenty at Mallesons and Clayton Utz during the GFC (not to mention the odd mass defection to A&O) and rumours of foul play when it comes to performance reviews, there's been plenty written about them in recent times.
But it's not just the bad press that's upsetting the two firms. A major beef, according to news.com, is that the website's anonymous authors don't always seek a right of reply before publishing. Even RollOnFriday confronts the accused before writing about them...
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A Mallesons partner's reaction to FirmSpy yesterday |
Mallesons is on the record as having banned the site because it had started to get personal. "We had traditionally given staff access to the site, but it had recently started to publish material of a personal nature about individual staff at various firms, not just ours, that had nothing to do with legal issues" . Clutz apparently killed it for similar reasons.
However all the hoo hah doesn't seem to have done Firm Spy much damage. It seems that all the extra traffic generated by the controversy caused the to crash for a brief period.