News

Jun 25, 2015

Swaab Attor­neys Earns Recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a Glob­al Alliance of Inde­pen­dent Busi­ness Law Firms

Swaab Attor­neys today announced that it has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent busi­ness law firms. Swaab joined Mer­i­tas in 2009, and as a con­di­tion of its mem­ber­ship, is required to suc­cess­ful­ly com­plete recer­ti­fi­ca­tion every three years. Mer­i­tas is the only law firm alliance with an estab­lished and com­pre­hen­sive means…

Jun 23, 2015

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Star­tUpS­mart on Uber’s Con­trac­tor vs Employ­ee ruling

The Cal­i­forn­ian employ­er watch­dog has deter­mined that Uber dri­vers should be clas­si­fied as employ­ees, not as inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors, and are there­fore enti­tled to reimbursements. Uber is appeal­ing the deci­sion as it refers to its dri­vers as ​“part­ner dri­vers”, mean­ing they are inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors that should pay their own expenses. Employ­ment law…

Jun 19, 2015

Swaab announces Senior Asso­ciate promotion

Swaab is pleased to announce the pro­mo­tion of Eliz­a­beth Debono from the Fir­m’s lit­i­ga­tion team to the role of Senior Asso­ciate. Eliz­a­beth joined Swaab straight from school as a fil­ing clerk in 2005 and her excel­lent legal skills and client ser­vice has seen her steadi­ly rise through the ranks ever since…

May 11, 2015

James Skel­ton announced final­ist in Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards

Swaab IP & Tech­nol­o­gy lawyer, James Skel­ton, has been announced a final­ist in the 2015 Lawyers Week­ly 30 under 30 awards in the Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty category. Now in its third year, ​‘30 Under 30’ sta­tus has been a spring­board for career pro­gres­sion for many young lawyers, giv­ing indus­try-wide recog­ni­tion for pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tence while high­light­ing…

Apr 9, 2015

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Star­tupS­mart on Uber’s ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tor’ arrangements 

The Unit­ed Nations enti­ty for gen­der equal­i­ty has with­drawn from a part­ner­ship with online taxi-book­ing ser­vice Uber. The move comes after the plan was slammed by the Inter­na­tion­al Trans­port Work­ers’ Fed­er­a­tion for rein­forc­ing ​“struc­tur­al inequal­i­ty” in the wake of reports of pas­sen­ger assaults by Uber dri­vers. ​“By clas­si­fy­ing dri­vers as ​‘inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors’…

Mar 13, 2015

Chris Shaw fea­tured in the ANZ Prop­er­ty Jour­nal on Bit­coin and the rise of crypto-currency

The dig­i­tal cur­ren­cy Bit­coin has cre­at­ed con­tro­ver­sy around the world with users and experts debat­ing whether it will shape the future of finance. In this arti­cle, prop­er­ty, plan­ning and projects part­ner Chris Shaw dis­cuss­es the chances of Bit­coin in the con­ser­v­a­tive prop­er­ty mar­ket. READ THE ARTICLE…

Mar 13, 2015

Swaab wel­comes two new graduates

Will Kingston and Adam Zwi will be under­tak­ing Swaab’s grad­u­ate pro­gram, includ­ing three six month rotations. Will has joined our Com­mer­cial and Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty team for his ini­tial rota­tion. Pri­or to his arrival at Swaab, Will sup­port­ed the in-house legal team at Hewlett-Packard. This pro­vid­ed him with a unique insight into the…

Feb 13, 2015

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on employ­ee under­pay­ment case at two sushi franchises

War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in Smart­Com­pa­ny on a recent under­pay­ment case involv­ing the Fair Work Ombuds­man and the oper­a­tor of two sushi franchises. The Fair Work Ombuds­man found out that Sushi Izu under­paid a South Kore­an back­pack­er more than $5000 over an 11-week peri­od after set­ting wages for her work­ers by ring­ing…

Feb 12, 2015

Swaab wel­comes new grad­u­ate lawyer

Swaab is delight­ed to wel­come Nicholas Mark as a grad­u­ate solic­i­tor in our cor­po­rate team. Nicholas will be under­tak­ing Swaab’s grad­u­ate pro­gram, includ­ing three six month rotations.  Nicholas was admit­ted to prac­tice as a solic­i­tor in the Supreme Court of NSW in Octo­ber 2013. He has since worked in small and top tier…

Jan 30, 2015

Lawyers week­ly fea­tures Swaab’s pro­mo­tion of one new partner

Swaab’s pro­mo­tion of Marc Bad­dams to part­ner has been fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly.  Marc has been with Swaab for over 6 years start­ing as an Asso­ciate in 2008. Marc spe­cialis­es in com­mer­cial lit­i­ga­tion and dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and has expe­ri­ence in fed­er­al and state courts, tri­bunals and alter­na­tive dis­pute res­o­lu­tion process­es includ­ing medi­a­tion.>…