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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…

Aug 29, 2019

We wel­come two new lawyers to the team

We are thrilled to wel­come two new lawyers to our lit­i­ga­tion and fam­i­ly law teams, Alexan­dra Streltso­va and Monique Love­day.Alexan­dra will be work­ing along­side Part­ner Marc Bad­dams and the lit­i­ga­tion team bring­ing over 10 years of expe­ri­ence in com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and lit­i­ga­tion and prac­tices pre­dom­i­nant­ly in the areas of com­mer­cial…

Aug 27, 2019

The Law Soci­ety of NSW Advance­ment of Women Charter

The Advance­ment of Women Char­ter is designed to pro­mote and sup­port strate­gies to retain women in the pro­fes­sion over the course of their careers and encour­age and pro­mote their career pro­gres­sion into senior exec­u­tive and man­age­ment posi­tions. To achieve this the Char­ter aims to assist legal prac­tices to devel­op cul­tures…

Aug 13, 2019

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in Law Soci­ety Journal

Chair of Mer­i­tas Aus­tralia and New Zealand Region­al Com­mit­tee Mary Digiglio fea­tured in the Law Soci­ety Jour­nal to dis­cuss the recent Well­ness sur­vey which was con­duct­ed by Mer­i­tas Aus­tralia and New Zealand and revealed most employ­ees at small- and medi­um-sized law firms feel their men­tal health and well­be­ing is impor­tant…

Aug 12, 2019

Wellness program Q&A featured in the Australian Law Management Journal

In the Q&A fea­tured in the Aus­tralian Law Man­age­ment Jour­nal, Mary Digiglio, man­ag­ing part­ner of Swaab and a board mem­ber of the Minds Count Foun­da­tion, explains why well­ness pro­grams can only be suc­cess­ful if they are incor­po­rat­ed as part of the cul­ture of the practice…

Aug 12, 2019

2019 Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards

The 19th annu­al Aus­tralian Law Awards is the pin­na­cle awards pro­gram for the nation’s legal pro­fes­sion, recog­nis­ing the out­stand­ing work being done across major legal prac­tice areas and whilst we did not win the award for Well­ness Ini­tia­tive of the Year, we were absolute­ly thrilled to have been nom­i­nat­ed.Con­grat­u­la­tions to…

Aug 6, 2019

New lawyer joins our Lit­i­ga­tion team

Alexan­dra will be work­ing along­side Part­ner Marc Bad­dams and the lit­i­ga­tion team bring­ing over 10 years of expe­ri­ence in com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and litigation.  Alexan­dra prac­tices pre­dom­i­nant­ly in the areas of com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy and com­mer­cial advice, has a broad range of expe­ri­ence in act­ing for and against major Banks…

Jul 31, 2019

BREAK­ING | ANZ Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019

MEDIA RELEASE JULY 2019 Aus­tralian & New Zealand Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019 The well­be­ing of every­one work­ing in the legal sec­tor is a sub­ject being exam­ined world­wide. This includes the pio­neer­ing work done in 2009 by the Brain and Mind Insti­tute in Aus­tralia for the Tris­tan Jep­son Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion (now called The Minds…