News

Sep 6, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on strate­gic SAP tech­nol­o­gy acquisition

The Swaab team led by cor­po­rate part­ner Alis­tair Jaque and senior asso­ciate Andrew Drap­er has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on 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…

Aug 31, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on our unique work­place culture

Swaab CEO Bron­wyn Pott met with Lawyers Week­ly to dis­cuss our fir­m’s flex­i­ble work­ing arrange­ments and prac­ti­cal billing struc­ture that has helped to attract and main­tain qual­i­ty staff and result­ed in our unique work­place culture…

Aug 16, 2012

Angela Har­vey fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly part­ner pro­file, Swaab cor­po­rate and com­mer­cial part­ner Angela Har­vey dis­cuss­es every­thing from the ben­e­fits and chal­lenges of being a lawyer, to her love for Paris and Louboutin shoes…

Aug 15, 2012

Swaab wel­comes new fam­i­ly law senior associate

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of senior asso­ciate Karen Hardy to our high­ly regard­ed fam­i­ly law team. Karen brings with her exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the area of fam­i­ly law, pre­dom­i­nant­ly deal­ing with prop­er­ty divi­sion, par­ent­ing dis­putes, main­te­nance mat­ters and estate lit­i­ga­tion. Karen is an accred­it­ed spe­cial­ist in fam­i­ly law…

Aug 14, 2012

Swaab acknowl­edged for social media usage in Lawyers Weekly

In a study of 80 Aus­tralian law firms, Swaab has been includ­ed in a select group of law firms util­is­ing four of the five cen­tral social media net­works. Read the full Lawyers Week­ly Arti­cle on the BRR Media Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Social Media Snap­shot. All depart­ments at Swaab have their own Twit­ter…

Jul 23, 2012

BRW Fea­ture — Can­cer made Swaab a stronger firm

BRW takes a close look at Swaab’s jour­ney over the last few years with the absence of founder and chair­man Fred Swaab and the estab­lished suc­ces­sion plan that facil­i­tat­ed Swaab’s con­tin­ued suc­cess.Read the full arti­cle…

Jun 27, 2012

Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team

Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team, Kris Hung and Natale Iladro. Kris has gained expe­ri­ence in a broad range of per­son­al and cor­po­rate work, includ­ing insol­ven­cy and debt recov­ery and was involved in a large scale class action Fed­er­al Court mat­ter in which he had respon­si­bil­i­ty for con­duct­ing the dai­ly…

Jun 21, 2012

Swaab ranked 34^th in BRW’s 50 Best Places to Work list 2012

Swaab Attor­neys has placed 34th in Busi­ness Review Week­ly’s revered 50 Best Places to Work annu­al list for 2012. It is the fourth con­sec­u­tive year that Swaab have made the list. Swaab was the only law firm on the list, plac­ing ahead of esteemed glob­al com­pa­nies such as Adi­das Aus­tralia and…

Jun 12, 2012

Swaab wel­comes new employ­ment lawyer

We are delight­ed to announce the appoint­ment of new lawyer Lau­ra Sow­den to our employ­ment team. Pri­or to her arrival at Swaab, Lau­ra was Legal Case Man­ag­er in the NSW Appeals Unit at the Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia, where she was involved in case man­age­ment, research and pro­vid­ing analy­sis of com­plex…

May 4, 2012

Swaab fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on how glob­al asso­ci­a­tions work

Fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly, Swaab intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty part­ner Matthew Hall dis­cuss­es the ben­e­fits of being a part of glob­al legal net­work, Mer­i­tas. With Mer­i­tas’s invi­ta­tion-only mem­ber­ship and strict qual­i­ty con­trols, it pro­vides our clients with access to an inter­na­tion­al net­work of trust­ed colleagues…