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Nov 26, 2019

2019 Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliances (AusLSA) Member’s Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update

The 2019 AusLSA Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Update pro­vides an in-depth overview of the col­lab­o­ra­tive and indi­vid­ual efforts of 32 Aus­tralian legal prac­tices. This con­tributes to a more sus­tain­able legal sec­tor through their peo­ple, com­mu­ni­ty, envi­ron­men­tal and gov­er­nance ini­tia­tives. Man­ag­ing and report­ing a full range of sus­tain­abil­i­ty issues is a grow­ing fea­ture of suc­cess­ful Aus­tralian and…

Nov 21, 2019

Minds Count Lec­ture 2019

This year, the lec­ture was deliv­ered by David West­gate. David is a bipo­lar busi­ness­man, writer and men­tal health advo­cate and has had a long career as a high-fly­ing busi­ness­man work­ing in the field of adver­tis­ing. David decid­ed to blend his pas­sion and career to become a keynote speak­er for the Black Dog Insti­tute after…

Nov 14, 2019

Per­son­al Data Pro­tec­tion | Free download

We are pleased to be the con­trib­u­tor for the Aus­tralian chap­ter in this 2nd Edi­tion of ​‘A Glob­al Roadmap to Per­son­al Data Pro­tec­tion’ proud­ly put togeth­er by @Meritas Law Firms World­wide. Down­load your Com­pli­men­ta­ry copy here: https://​www​.mer​i​tas​.org/​D​a​t​a​P​r​o​t​e​c​t​i​o​n​G​u​i​d​e​.aspx…

Nov 11, 2019

New lawyer joins our team!

Geeti is a mem­ber of Swaab’s com­mer­cial and cor­po­rate prac­tice and brings with her expe­ri­ence in fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion mat­ters; prepa­ra­tion of Wills, Pow­ers of Attor­ney and Appoint­ments of Endur­ing Guardian; and obtain­ing grants of pro­bate, let­ters of admin­is­tra­tion and sub­se­quent estate admin­is­tra­tion and management. Geeti’s focus is always for clients to achieve their…

Oct 10, 2019

Law Soci­ety Jour­nal | Octo­ber 2019

In this inter­view Mary dis­cuss­es how she became inter­est­ed in well­be­ing, human behav­iour and psy­chol­o­gy and pro­vides insights into what law firms can do bet­ter when it comes to car­ing for their employees. …

Sep 24, 2019

Angela Har­vey recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2019

As part of the Estate Plan­ning and Wealth Man­age­ment prac­tice, Ange­la’s expe­ri­ence includes asset pro­tec­tion, trusts, suc­ces­sion plan­ning, analysing estab­lished struc­tures, con­test­ed estates — includ­ing fam­i­ly pro­vi­sion mat­ters, fam­i­ly asset arrange­ments, and prepa­ra­tion of Wills, Pow­ers of Attor­ney and Endur­ing Guardian documents.Our ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­als have been select­ed because of their cul­tur­al…

Sep 9, 2019

Proud sup­port­ers of Spark Fes­ti­val 2019

Fol­low­ing on from last years’ enor­mous suc­cess which saw over 13,000 atten­dees, the annu­al Spark Fes­ti­val is Australia’s largest event for start-ups, investors, entre­pre­neurs and inno­va­tors is set to be a mas­sive suc­cess! This year Spark Fes­ti­val will run a 17-day pro­gram from Octo­ber 10 – 27 and will include over 10…

Sep 9, 2019

Beyond a break-up — Aus­trali­a’s first divorce centre

The Divorce Cen­tre is a one stop shop help­ing clients nav­i­gate one of life’s most stress­ful expe­ri­ences and pro­vides legal, emo­tion­al and finan­cial advice through an expe­ri­enced nation­al and local team of divorce coach­es, lawyers, medi­a­tors, finan­cial plan­ners, and psy­chol­o­gists.We have a wealth of expe­ri­ence through­out our fam­i­ly law team, with both…

Sep 6, 2019

Michael Byrnes appears on ​‘Mon­ey News’ host­ed by John Stan­ley on 2GB

Michael Byrnes speaks with John Stan­ley on radio 2GB and 4BC (at 48.20) about the​“Hitler par­o­dy sack­ing’ which sparks new free speech debate.Lis­ten to the record­ing here…

Sep 5, 2019

Michael Byrnes quot­ed in the Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review — 5 Sep­tem­ber 2019

Michael Byrnes quot­ed as say­ing ​“I don’t want in any way to down­play or triv­i­alise how offen­sive it is to com­pare some­one to Hitler or oth­ers involved to Nazi Ger­many,” Mr Byrnes said. “But [the Down­fall meme] is often not nec­es­sar­i­ly equat­ing the par­tic­u­lar peo­ple [it satiris­es] with Hitler or Nazi…