New Part­ner Joins Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects Team

Apr 1, 2019

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come new part­ner Helen Kow­al to the firm’s PPP Prac­tice.Helen brings with her a career span­ning over…
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Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media

Mar 27, 2019

A High Court case will decide whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media. Pub­lic…
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James Skel­ton has been announced as a final­ist in the 2019 Aus­tralasian Law Awards

Mar 25, 2019

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has been announced as a final­ist in the ​‘Young Pri­vate Prac­tice Lawyer of the Year (3…
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Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work, health and safe­ty issues for junior lawyers in firms

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes and Jerome Doraisamy dis­cuss the WHS issues that law firms across the board need to be aware of…
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Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the issue of employ­ees v inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors in the ​“gig economy”

Mar 11, 2019

The ​‘gig econ­o­my’ is a by-prod­uct of dis­rup­tive com­pa­nies and it’s rais­ing ques­tions for gov­ern­ments and employ­ment law experts. Are work­ers…
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Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues aris­ing from video record­ing and dissemination

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes speaks with John Stan­ley on radio 2GB and 4BC about the legal­i­ty sur­round­ing video record­ing and what hap­pens…
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Michael Byrnes appears on The Keep podcast

Mar 6, 2019

In this episode Michael covers: The cul­ture changes that must be imple­ment­ed with­in businessesThe social impact of the #Metoo movementWhy imple­ment­ing train­ing is important?The…
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Well­ness is core to our philosophy

Feb 8, 2019

Our phi­los­o­phy is that we employ the ​“whole per­son” not just the lawyer, the sup­port per­son or the man­ag­er. Our…
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2019 a year of oppor­tu­ni­ties and growth

Feb 8, 2019

Whilst increased com­pe­ti­tion, dis­rup­tion and con­sol­i­da­tion con­tin­ue to play out through­out the legal sec­tor, our posi­tion in the mar­ket place…
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Monique Robb in Accoun­tants­Dai­ly dis­cussing tax debts in divorce proceedings

Feb 4, 2019

Speak­ing to Accoun­tants Dai­ly, Swaab senior asso­ciate, Monique Robb said the case was a depar­ture from the norm but believes it…
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