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Slater and Gordon to make police report over mass email revealing salaries

Hannah Wootton, Maxim Shanahan and Myriam Robin

Updated Feb 21, 2025 – 5.02pm, first published at 4.05pm

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It was just before 10am on Friday when an email hit the inboxes of hundreds of Slater and Gordon employees that, regardless of its veracity, would spark an immediate investigation by the firm and cause workplace ructions for weeks to come.

Purportedly sent by out-going chief people officer Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen, the email at first appeared to be a handover to her replacement, Julie Catanach, who has yet to start at the firm.

Hannah Wootton is a Rear Window columnist, based in Melbourne.

Maxim Shanahan is a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review.

Myriam Robin is a senior writer based in the Melbourne newsroom. She has previously been a Rear Window columnist and editor, and before that reported on financial markets and media.