News

Mar 8, 2013

Swaab fea­tured in ALB on Post­grad­u­ate Studies

ALB has fea­tured Swaab senior asso­ciate, Marc Bad­dams in their recent arti­cle explor­ing post­grad­u­ate stud­ies for legal prac­ti­tion­ers as it becomes an increas­ing­ly vital tool for career pro­gres­sion. Marc explains how his Mas­ter of Laws from The Uni­ver­si­ty of NSW has helped him take the next step in his career…

Feb 4, 2013

Swaab a final­ist at the BRW Client Choice Award for the 8^th Con­sec­u­tive Year

Swaab has been nom­i­nat­ed in the cat­e­go­ry of Best Law Form rev­enue under $50 mil­lion at the 2013 BRW Client Choice Awards. It is the 8th con­sec­u­tive year that Swaab have been nom­i­nat­ed for a BRW Client Choice Award. The BRW client ser­vice sur­vey is the largest inde­pen­dent sur­vey of pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice…

Jan 25, 2013

Swaab Award­ed Inno­va­tion Award at Annu­al ALP­MA Awards Night

Swaab was recent­ly recog­nised by the NSW branch of the Aus­tralasian Legal Prac­tice Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion [ALP­MA] with the Inno­va­tion Award at their annu­al awards evening. Swaab received the acco­lade for their efforts in ​“tak­ing things to the next lev­el” when it comes to ser­vice deliv­ery and client focus. ALP­MA NSW Pres­i­dent Sal­ly…

Jan 18, 2013

Swaab fea­tured in The Aus­tralian on the eco­nom­ic out­look for 2013

Swaab has been fea­tured in the Legal Affairs sec­tion of The Aus­tralian dis­cussing the eco­nom­ic out­look for this year and trends with­in the legal sec­tor. Swaab lit­i­ga­tion part­ner Ter­ry Sper­ber com­ments on the need for mid-size firms such as Swaab to pro­vide val­ue beyond sound legal advice…

Dec 14, 2012

Swaab joins the con­ver­sa­tion on work­place diver­si­ty in lawyers weekly

Swaab CEO, Bron­wyn Pott has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on work­place diver­si­ty and flex­i­ble work arrange­ments. Bron­wyn dis­cuss­es her man­age­ment approach to flex­i­ble work­ing arrange­ments and the need for them to be mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial as well as practical. Swaab has a num­ber of tai­lored work arrange­ments in place, with 30 per­cent of…

Dec 14, 2012

Swaab takes out ALP­MA inno­va­tion award

Swaab Attor­neys has tak­en out the 2012 Aus­tralasian Legal Prac­tice Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion (ALP­MA) Inno­va­tion Award. ALP­MA award­ed the firm for their abil­i­ty to ​“always do things a bit dif­fer­ent­ly” and for ​“being at the fore­front of man­age­ment think­ing”. The award recog­nised the fir­m’s achieve­ments on both an employ­ee and prac­tice man­age­ment front…

Nov 20, 2012

Finance Month­ly names Alis­tair Jaque ​“Deal Mak­er of the Year 2012”

Finance Month­ly has named Swaab cor­po­rate part­ner Alis­tair Jaque ​“Deal Mak­er of the Year 2012” for advis­ing pub­li­cal­ly list­ed, IT solu­tions com­pa­ny UXC in rela­tion to the acqui­si­tion of Aus­tralian spe­cial­ist SAP con­sult­ing firm, Stream, by their SAP soft­ware and ser­vices inte­gra­tor sub­sidiary, Oxy­gen Busi­ness Solutions. The Finance Month­ly ​“Deal…

Nov 2, 2012

Alis­tair Jaque fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Swaab Cor­po­rate Part­ner Alis­tair Jaque has been fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file dis­cussing his career high­lights and chal­lenges, as well as his pro­fes­sion­al foot­ball aspirations.…

Oct 29, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in trade mark report on ABC Rur­al Radio

Swaab has fea­tured on ABC Rur­al Radio report­ing on the Aus­tralian Made Aus­tralian Grown logo reg­is­tra­tion in Chi­na. Swaab IP Part­ner Tim Hem­ing­way com­ments on the ben­e­fits of this reg­is­tra­tion in deal­ing with over­seas trade mark infringement…

Oct 24, 2012

Swaab in Law Firm Cham­pi­ons Cup

As fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, Swaab will be par­tak­ing in the Law Firm Cham­pi­ons Cup next month with twelve oth­er teams com­pris­ing of small bou­tique to glob­al law firms. Cap­tained by Alis­tair Jaque, Team Swaab is look­ing for­ward to game day and putting cer­tain play­ers’ (claimed) skills to the test. The…