However, a spokesperson for Herbert Geer said the firm had made "two or three" people redundant and that "we, as do all businesses, have redundancies from time to time".

The spokesperson added that there was no plan for general redundancies at the firm.

Herbert Greer recently recruited Paul Noonan, partner from Dibbs Abbott Stillman, to the Melbourne office and told Lawyers Weekly that it anticipated further new partner announcements shortly.

- Sarah Sharples