‘What email?’: Inside Slater and Gordon’s workplace meltdown

An all-staff email featuring the pay details of more than 900 staff has ricocheted around a law firm already torn between its private equity owner and trade union heritage.

Excerpts from chief executive Dina Tutungi’s address to staff about the rogue email at 4pm last Friday. Tim Beor

Edmund Tadros, Maxim Shanahan and Hannah Wootton

Mar 1, 2025 – 5.00am

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Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen was working from home on February 21 when she received a phone call from a colleague at class action law firm Slater and Gordon. The caller asked, delicately, if she had meant to include most of the firm in an email sent from a private Gmail account bearing her name.

She asked: What email?

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Edmund TadrosProfessional services editorEdmund Tadros leads our coverage of the professional services sector. He is based in our Sydney newsroom.