News

Dec 14, 2021

Wish­ing you hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year

Over the hol­i­day peri­od, our offices will be closed from 5pm Thurs­day 23rd Decem­ber 2021 and will reopen 8.30am Mon­day 10th Jan­u­ary 2022…

Dec 3, 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Contest.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Con­test.” The t‑shirt our Man­ag­ing Part­ner — Mary Digiglio is wear­ing, fea­tures the win­ning design — One World / One Team #Team­Mer­i­tas. …

Nov 17, 2021

We Are Hiring

We have a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty for a Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyer 2 — 5 years’ PQE as a solic­i­tor, to work under the guid­ance of a Doyle’s rec­om­mend­ed Part­ner and a Doyle’s Ris­ing Star Senior Asso­ciate in our well-respect­ed Plan­ning team.  We are also look­ing for a bright, moti­vat­ed, client focused, expe­ri­enced Lawyer with min­i­mum 2 — 3 years PQE…

Oct 27, 2021

The Inter­na­tion­al Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (IBA) today released its first glob­al sur­vey on Men­tal Well­be­ing in the Legal Profession

Work­ing with the IBA Legal Pol­i­cy & Research Unit team led by Sara Carnegie and George Art­ley, inter­na­tion­al sur­veys were con­duct­ed. A team of experts from every con­ti­nent was assem­bled. This report is the result of those efforts. With key find­ings, and the rec­om­men­da­tions of exist­ing reports and stud­ies into lawyer well­be­ing from…

Oct 12, 2021

2021 Mer­i­tas ​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers out­lines the exact­ing cri­te­ria for ​‘Elite’ net­works in their com­men­tary for the 2021 guide: “In the Elite cat­e­go­ry of the Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works sec­tion, the rank­ings focus on the most impres­sive inde­pen­dent law firm net­works worldwide. The chief cri­te­ri­on for a lead­ing legal net­work, is that the mem­ber firms are inde­pen­dent…

Sep 1, 2021

Lawyers Week­ly | Swaab Grows Partnership

Nicholas Dale will come on board as a part­ner from 6 Sep­tem­ber, bring­ing with him over 27 years’ expe­ri­ence in lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy matters. Com­ment­ing on the move, Swaab man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio described the appoint­ment of Mr Dale as sig­nif­i­cant and that comes in line with the demand the firm’s lit­i­ga­tion and insol­ven­cy…

Aug 27, 2021

Press Release | New Part­ner Appoint­ment — Nicholas Dale

“This is an excit­ing time for Swaab and our Lit­i­ga­tion and Insol­ven­cy team. Our suc­cess has come from putting our peo­ple and clients first and by mak­ing strate­gic appoint­ments that build on our strong focus on cul­ture, well­be­ing and client ser­vice. This appoint­ment will serve to bol­ster our already impres­sive…

Aug 24, 2021

Retail and Oth­er Com­mer­cial Leas­es (COVID-19) Amend­ment Reg­u­la­tion 2021

Vic­to­ria has passed enabling leg­is­la­tion for anoth­er rent relief scheme for retail and com­mer­cial ten­ants. How­ev­er, the spe­cif­ic details about how this new scheme will oper­ate will be in the Reg­u­la­tions, which have not been pub­lished. As of the date of this update, no oth­er State or Ter­ri­to­ry has announced…

Aug 14, 2021

Rein­tro­duc­tion of Nation­al Cab­i­net’s Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct for Com­mer­cial Leas­ing in NSW 14 Aug 21

NSW Gov­ern­ment will rein­tro­duce the Nation­al Cab­i­net’s Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct for Com­mer­cial Leasing  On 13 August 2021, the NSW Gov­ern­ment announced it will rein­tro­duce the Nation­al Cab­i­net’s Manda­to­ry Code of Con­duct for Com­mer­cial Leas­ing until 13 Jan­u­ary 2022 man­dat­ing rent relief for eli­gi­ble ten­ants impact­ed by Covid-19. The Retail and Oth­er…

Jul 15, 2021

Announce­ment | Swaab has been award­ed recer­ti­fi­ca­tion in Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent 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 breadth of…