News

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…

Jun 11, 2019

Mary Digiglio award­ed Well­ness Advo­cate of the Year 2019

Mary has con­tin­ued to inspire us all at Swaab with her per­sis­tence and ded­i­ca­tion in rais­ing aware­ness of the impor­tance of well­ness and well­be­ing and con­grat­u­late her on this fan­tas­tic achievement! Click here to view all the pho­tos from the night…

Jun 5, 2019

Mer­i­tas | ANZ Intern­ship Exchange

Solic­i­tors Pierce Bedog­ni of Martel­li McK­egg and John Trinh of Swaab, have swapped firms and coun­tries for two weeks to gain an under­stand­ing and insights into how each oth­ers firms oper­ate and how their legal sys­tems and leg­is­la­tion vary between juris­dic­tions. Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Mary Digiglio said, ​“It is won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty…

May 23, 2019

Aus­tralia & New Zealand Doing Busi­ness Guides 2019

The 2019 edi­tion of the Mer­i­tas Legal Guide for Busi­ness Invest­ment and Expan­sion in Aus­tralia and New Zealand are now avail­able to view.…

May 20, 2019

Swaab ranked in Doyles Guide 2019

Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio has been list­ed as a Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing Lawyer 2019, Part­ner Tony D’Agosti­no has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer 2019 and Part­ner Emma Flem­ing has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer 2019. Swaab has also been list­ed in both Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law…

May 17, 2019

Mer­i­tas | Glob­al Well­ness Launch

Fol­low­ing on from the open pan­el dis­cus­sion that Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego, we are proud to announce the launch of the Mer­i­tas Glob­al Well­ness initiative. As a world­wide net­work of law firms, Mer­i­tas has iden­ti­fied Well­ness as a key issue which is…

Apr 15, 2019

Mary Digiglio announced as a final­ist at the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards 2019

The Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards, in part­ner­ship with Tay­lor Root, show­cas­es out­stand­ing per­for­mance by part­ners, or part­ner equiv­a­lent, across indi­vid­ual prac­tice areas with­in the Aus­tralian legal indus­try — the only nation­al awards pro­gram to do so. We wish Mary all the best. The win­ners will be announced at…

Apr 9, 2019

Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 in San Diego — Well­ness in law

Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in an open pan­el dis­cus­sion among Mer­i­tas law firms at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego. The dis­cus­sion was on the grow­ing impor­tance law firms need to place on well­ness and well-being with­in the legal pro­fes­sion. Pan­elists show­cased the pro­grams and com­mit­ments they…

Mar 25, 2019

James Skel­ton has been announced as a final­ist in the 2019 Aus­tralasian Law Awards

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has been announced as a final­ist in the ​‘Young Pri­vate Prac­tice Lawyer of the Year (30 or under)’ cat­e­go­ry of the Aus­tralasian Law Awards 2019. The Aus­tralasian Law Awards cel­e­brate the out­stand­ing achieve­ments of Aus­tralia and New Zealand’s lead­ing legal pro­fes­sion­al, firms and in-house teams for their…

Feb 8, 2019

Well­ness is core to our philosophy

Our phi­los­o­phy is that we employ the ​“whole per­son” not just the lawyer, the sup­port per­son or the man­ag­er. Our staff are peo­ple first and fore­most. The days of expect­ing peo­ple to leave their per­son­al lives at the door are gone. It is inap­pro­pri­ate to expect peo­ple to take phone…