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Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Contest.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Con­test.” The t‑shirt our Man­ag­ing Part­ner — Mary Digiglio is wear­ing, fea­tures the win­ning design — One World / One Team #Team­Mer­i­tas. …

Con­grat­u­la­tions to our Fam­i­ly Law team and key mem­bers, Annette Wil­son — Part­ner, Greg Park­er — Part­ner and Ryan Gan­non — Senior Asso­ciate, for being recog­nised in the 2022 Lead­ing Lawyers Doyles Guide

Swaab Fam­i­ly Law team – Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Law Firms, Syd­ney, 2022 Greg Park­er - Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Lawyers, Syd­ney, 2022 plus Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Par­ent­ing & Chil­dren Mat­ters Lawyers, NSW 2022 Annette Wil­son — Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Par­ent­ing & Chil­dren Mat­ters Lawyers, NSW 2022 Ryan Gan­non - Fam­i­ly Law Ris­ing Stars, New South Wales, 202…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Work­ers’ comp claims expect­ed to cost gov­ern­ment $638m”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 26 Novem­ber 2021

Michael Byrnes isquot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Work­ers’ comp claims expect­ed to cost gov­ern­ment $638m”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 26 Novem­ber 2021 Since the begin­ning of the pan­dem­ic, there have been over 3,000 COVID-19-relat­ed work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion claims across the coun­try – result­ing in updat­ed WHS poli­cies becom­ing vital­ly impor­tant for businesses. Read…

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald in the Fed­er­al Court Case of miss­ing fraud­ster Melis­sa Caddick

Michael Hayter who is rep­re­sent­ing the court-appoint­ed Liq­uida­tors said, ​“I have been instruct­ed to imme­di­ate­ly issue notices”. Mr Hayter said the notices had been sent to Ms Caddick’s fam­i­ly mem­bers on Wednes­day after­noon fol­low­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of Fed­er­al Court Jus­tice Brigitte Markovic’s judgment. To read the full SMH arti­cle click here…

Michael Hayter appeared last night on the ABC News 7.30 Report, in an exten­sive inter­view on the need for stronger enforce­ment in the pre-insol­ven­cy industry

Michael Hayter appeared last night on the ABC News 7.30 Report, in an exten­sive inter­view on the need for stronger enforce­ment in the pre-insol­ven­cy indus­try. The inter­view relates to the cir­cum­stances in which two pre-insol­ven­cy advi­sors and a direc­tor were con­vict­ed of var­i­ous offens­es and received prison sen­tences after Michael Hayter…

The Inter­na­tion­al Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (IBA) today released its first glob­al sur­vey on Men­tal Well­be­ing in the Legal Profession

Work­ing with the IBA Legal Pol­i­cy & Research Unit team led by Sara Carnegie and George Art­ley, inter­na­tion­al sur­veys were con­duct­ed. A team of experts from every con­ti­nent was assem­bled. This report is the result of those efforts. With key find­ings, and the rec­om­men­da­tions of exist­ing reports and stud­ies into lawyer well­be­ing from…

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