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Aug 12, 2019

2019 Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards

The 19th annu­al Aus­tralian Law Awards is the pin­na­cle awards pro­gram for the nation’s legal pro­fes­sion, recog­nis­ing the out­stand­ing work being done across major legal prac­tice areas and whilst we did not win the award for Well­ness Ini­tia­tive of the Year, we were absolute­ly thrilled to have been nom­i­nat­ed.Con­grat­u­la­tions to…

Aug 6, 2019

New lawyer joins our Lit­i­ga­tion team

Alexan­dra will be work­ing along­side Part­ner Marc Bad­dams and the lit­i­ga­tion team bring­ing over 10 years of expe­ri­ence in com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and litigation.  Alexan­dra prac­tices pre­dom­i­nant­ly in the areas of com­mer­cial dis­pute res­o­lu­tion and lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy and com­mer­cial advice, has a broad range of expe­ri­ence in act­ing for and against major Banks…

Jul 31, 2019

BREAK­ING | ANZ Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019

MEDIA RELEASE JULY 2019 Aus­tralian & New Zealand Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey 2019 The well­be­ing of every­one work­ing in the legal sec­tor is a sub­ject being exam­ined world­wide. This includes the pio­neer­ing work done in 2009 by the Brain and Mind Insti­tute in Aus­tralia for the Tris­tan Jep­son Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion (now called The Minds…

Jul 30, 2019

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Mer­i­tas Aus­tralia & New Zealand region­al com­mit­tee chair and Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Swaab, Mary Digiglio dis­cuss­es the results of the first ever Mer­i­tas Well­ness Sur­vey. The sur­vey involved over 200 staff mem­bers from Mer­i­tas affil­i­at­ed law firms.  Read more You can view the results of the 2019 Mer­i­tas Aus­tralia & New Zealand Well­ness…

Jul 23, 2019

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in the Aus­tralasian Lawyer

Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Swaab and chair of the Mer­i­tas Aus­tralian and New Zealand region­al com­mit­tee Mary Digiglio com­ments on the cap­ti­vat­ing results.To view the arti­cle click here or to view the sur­vey report click on the down­load below…

Jul 22, 2019

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly podcast

Jerome , David and Mary unpack whether a four-day week would work, the impor­tance of flex­i­bil­i­ty and oth­er such move­ments away from the tra­di­tion­al nine to five. Click here to lis­ten to the podcast!…

Jul 19, 2019

Break­ing: Mary Digiglio fea­tured in The Aus­tralian today — ​‘Men­tal issues affect major­i­ty in law firms’

Mary Digiglio is fea­tured in today’s arti­cle in The Aus­tralian, say­ing ​“when you peel back the lay­ers, there is now a lot more per­mis­sion to talk about this issue”. For more details on the sur­vey vis­it the Mer­i­tas page of our web­site, alter­na­tive­ly, you can view the media release from The…

Jul 12, 2019

Break­ing: The Aus­tralian — Part­ner­ship Sur­vey 2019

Key find­ings in today’s instal­ment of The Aus­tralian​’s part­ner­ship sur­vey, shows the pro­por­tion of female equi­ty part­ners at Swaab being well above the legal pro­fes­sion’s aver­age. With females mak­ing up 60% of equi­ty part­ners and 53% of total part­ner num­bers. Man­ag­ing part­ner — Mary Digiglio com­ment­ed say­ing ​‘gen­der equi­ty with­in…

Jun 24, 2019

Swaab announced as a final­ist in Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards 2019

This award recog­nis­es the law firms and legal depart­ments that have demon­strat­ed a com­mit­ment to their work­force over 17 – 18 finan­cial year. Win­ners will be announced on Fri­day, 9 August 2019 at The Star Sydney.…

Jun 14, 2019

ANZ Mer­i­tas Intern­ship Exchange

The lawyer exchange is the first of its kind in the ANZ Mer­i­tas region and has been a valu­able expe­ri­ence. We say thank you and farewell to Pierce and wish him the best of luck in future! We recent­ly took some time out to ask Pierce a few ques­tions about his expe­ri­ence…