News

Nov 1, 2018

The Inau­gur­al Fred Swaab Hon­orary Address

We were hon­oured to host the Inau­gur­al Fred Swaab Hon­orary Address on 23 Octo­ber 2018 and to have the Hon. P A Bergin SC, deliv­er the key note speech.  The evening was a chance to bring togeth­er fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues and clients of Swaab to remem­ber and acknowl­edge Fred’s achievements.  It was also…

Sep 27, 2018

Lawyers Week­ly arti­cle ​‘Mid-tier firm rebrands with new name’

Lawyers Week­ly have cov­ered the Swaab brand refresh in an arti­cle titled ​‘Mid-tier firm rebrands with new name.’ The arti­cle includes an inter­view with Mary about the impor­tance of the changes, and what this means for the firm.See fol­low­ing an excerpt:Speak­ing to Lawyers Week­ly, Swaab man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said this change…

Sep 25, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es casu­al employ­ment on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 37.30).…

Sep 25, 2018

A Glob­al Roadmap to Per­son­al Data Protection

“Not so long ago, ​“data pro­tec­tion” meant a locked fil­ing cab­i­net and a good shred­der. No longer. In a sin­gle gen­er­a­tion, pro­tect­ing data went from safe­guard­ing doc­u­ments to secur­ing infor­ma­tion of almost every kind, both tan­gi­ble and in elec­tron­ic form. Although every­one under­stands what it means to pro­tect a hard copy doc­u­ment, it is…

Sep 21, 2018

Swaab Attor­neys launch­es a new look and a new name

The part­ners of the firm are proud and excit­ed to announce that from Mon­day 24 Sep­tem­ber 2018 the firm will be renamed Swaab. This name change will also include a new logo, web­site and refreshed brand. The Swaab brand has been evolv­ing since the firm was first found­ed by Fred Swaab back…

Sep 19, 2018

Mary Digiglio inter­viewed by Lawyers Week­ly, ​“Why man­ag­ing part­ners must step up on work­place wellness”

In the lead up to Men­tal Health Month, Mary Digiglio and Melin­da Upton (DLA Piper) have been inter­viewed by Lawyers Week­ly about why firm lead­ers need to lead from the front on well­be­ing matters. The first half of the con­ver­sa­tion can be read here. Part two of the con­ver­sa­tion focus­es on…

Sep 14, 2018

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on ​‘Mon­ey News’

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work­place bul­ly­ing on the ​‘Mon­ey News’ pro­gram on 2GB, 3AW and 4BC. Lis­ten to the inter­view here (from 22.30).…

Aug 1, 2018

Swaab Attor­neys earns recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firms

Mer­i­tas is the only law firm alliance with an estab­lished and com­pre­hen­sive means of mon­i­tor­ing the qual­i­ty of its mem­ber firms — a process that saves clients time val­i­dat­ing law firm cre­den­tials and expe­ri­ence. Mer­i­tas mem­ber­ship is selec­tive and by invi­ta­tion only. Firms are reg­u­lar­ly assessed and recer­ti­fied for the…

Jun 28, 2018

Swaab Attor­neys announces a record nine promotions

Swaab Attor­neys are delight­ed to announce the fol­low­ing inter­nal pro­mo­tions across the fir­m’s employ­ment, lit­i­ga­tion, IP & tech­nol­o­gy, com­mer­cial, cor­po­rate and prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects teams, effec­tive 1 July 2018. Spe­cial Counsel · Wendy Con­ce­icao, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects · Stacey Collins, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning and Projects Senior Asso­ciate · Tim­o­thy Hard­wick, Litigation · Alyce John­son, Prop­er­ty…

May 21, 2018

Alyce John­son named ​‘Ris­ing Star’ by Doyles Guide

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Alyce John­son who has been list­ed by Doyle’s Guide as a Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Ris­ing Star — Aus­tralia & New Zealand.The rank­ings are com­piled from the respons­es con­tained in our Aus­tralia & New Zealand ‑wide sur­vey of Part­ner-lev­el Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyers and clients. See the rank­ings here…