News

Nov 21, 2016

Awe­some Wom­en’s Dinner

We once again joined with Uber and Chief Dis­rupter to host awe­some women from across the not-for-prof­it, busi­ness and pub­lic sec­tor. The night was a fes­tive cel­e­bra­tion, a chance to re-con­nect and share ideas and opportunities. View pho­tos from the evening here…

Nov 17, 2016

New appoint­ments in the Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects Team

Swaab is pleased to announce that Cecil­ia Rose has been appoint­ed Part­ner in the Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team. A spe­cial­ist in the plan­ning, envi­ron­men­tal and local gov­ern­ment space, Cecil­ia has over 15 years’ expe­ri­ence work­ing with clients to solve prob­lems and deliv­er prac­ti­cal advice. The Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects team also have a new Spe­cial…

Oct 31, 2016

Swaab sup­ports #spark­fest

Swaab Attor­neys is a proud spon­sor of Spark Fes­ti­val, a week-long cel­e­bra­tion of Aus­tralian star­tups. Dur­ing the fes­ti­val, we had the plea­sure of host­ing two very dif­fer­ent events. It was a full house as Healthtech Syd­ney pre­sent­ed five amaz­ing star­tups in the Dig­i­tal Health space. The star­tups, Sound Scouts, Can­cerAid, Health­care Inno­vate, Sur­gi­cal­Part­ners and…

Sep 5, 2016

IPFront­line fea­tures James Skelton

Dai­ly intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty news site, IPFront­line has this week fea­tures James Skel­ton’s recent arti­cle on the impor­tance of qual­i­ty con­trol pro­vi­sions. Read the full arti­cle here.…

Aug 4, 2016

Employ­ment Law Mat­ters fea­tures inter­view with Richard Ottley

Employ­ment Part­ner, Richard Ott­ley was recent­ly inter­viewed by Employ­ment Law Mat­ters sur­round­ing how much med­ical infor­ma­tion a HR pro­fes­sion­al can request. Read the full arti­cle here where Richard out­lines his top five pieces of advice and some recent cas­es that high­light the issue. Richard also tack­les the increas­ing­ly impor­tant issue of social…

Jul 18, 2016

James Skel­ton, ​‘Young Gun of the Year’ finalist 

James Skel­ton, Solic­i­tor in the IP team has been announced as a Young Gun of the Year final­ist in the 16th Annu­al Lawyers Week­ly Law Awards. The Young Gun of the Year award recog­nis­es out­stand­ing per­for­mance by an indi­vid­ual who has recent­ly com­menced their legal prac­tice and is open to any…

Jul 8, 2016

Pro­mo­tions at Swaab

Swaab is pleased to announce the pro­mo­tion of Car­o­line Bass to Part­ner. A Fam­i­ly Law spe­cial­ist with over 13 years’ expe­ri­ence, Car­o­line has a strong back­ground in estate plan­ning and exten­sive expe­ri­ence in domes­tic vio­lence law. Car­o­line has been a Senior Asso­ciate with Swaab for over six years, join­ing the firm in 2010. Man­ag­ing Part­ner…

Jun 28, 2016

Chris Shaw ranked as a Lead­ing Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyer by Doyles Guide

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Chris Shaw who has been ranked as a Lead­ing Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyer by Doyles Guide in their 2016 list. Doyles com­piles the list­ing based on online peer-based sur­veys and exten­sive tele­phone and face-to-face inter­views with clients, peers and rel­e­vant indus­try bodies. We are also pleased to announce that Swaab Attor­neys…

Jun 23, 2016

Swaab hosts the third Ecosys­tem Lead­ers’ Lunch

Swaab Attor­neys once again col­lab­o­rat­ed with the DTO, The Chief Dis­rup­tor, Stone & Chalk and fus­es­port to host the Ecosys­tem Lead­ers’ Lunch. Guests from the inno­va­tion and entre­pre­neur­ship ecosys­tem were able to con­nect and cre­ate new oppor­tu­ni­ties to col­lab­o­rate. Click here to view pho­tos from the event…

Jun 22, 2016

Fred Swaab’s Obit­u­ary in the Syd­ney Morn­ing Herald

A fit­ting trib­ute to our founder pub­lished in today’s SMH. Lawyer, advis­er and cre­ative thinker; Fred Swaab led an active and ful­fill­ing life and we at Swaab Attor­neys are priv­i­leged to have had the ben­e­fit of his influ­ence and spir­it. Click here to read the obituary…