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Women in Partnership | The Australian’s Legal Partnership Survey
The Australian’s Legal Partnership Survey, released on Tuesday, reveals the number of female lawyers is slowly creeping upwards, with women representing 33 percent of partners (up 2 percent on last year), 61 percent of graduates (up 0.1 percent), and 29 percent of equity partners (up 2 percent). With 50% of women as…
2023 Swaab Graduate Program | Announcement
Visit our website and social media pages for information on how to apply, details about the program and to hear from our 2022 Graduates. At Swaab you will work closely with our partners and lawyers, exposing you to a wide range of client matters, teams and different practice areas. Our Graduate Program…
2022 Meritas Legal Guides for Business Investment and Expansion in Australia and New Zealand
The global network of Meritas firms offers clients the ability to access high-quality legal services throughout Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. With over 7,600 business lawyers in over 240 cities, Meritas gives your company access to local counsel around the world. We hope theses Guides for Business Investment and Expansion…
Mary Digiglio is quoted in the article “Entrepreneurial, independent, nimble: smaller firms can thrive”, published in The Australian on 7 June 2022
Headcount is tight by choice, the decision not to expand beyond Sydney is also by choice. Managing Partner Mary Digiglio said, “We are nimble, we can do whatever we want, there is a relative lack of red tape and we are only accountable to each other” Mary went onto say, “this…
Swaab ranked amongst the highest on partnership gender equality
The survey highlighted the number of female equity partners in Australian law firms still hover around on average 27 per cent. Swaab’s Managing partner Mary Digiglio said,“We have been able to achieve this balance of gender equity organically, without the need for quotas using a merit based system that recognises an…
2022 Meritas Leading Law Firm Networks: The Elite (Legal Network) in Global Market Leaders Legal Rankings
Global Guide Rankings The Leading Law Firm Networks: The Elite (Legal Network) rankings table has been designed to provide the most in-depth insights and reviews of the top ranked lawyers and law firms. The firms included in the rankings have been recommended by in-house counsel, other third-party experts About Meritas Meritas is…
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…
Graduates Program 2021 — An interview with James Skelton
A key factor in maintaining our differentiation is embracing innovation, diversity and the fresh perspectives that come to our firm from employing graduates. In the lead up to the Graduates Program for 2021 we will be interviewing our past graduates and ask them to reflect on what their most interesting and…
Holiday Office Closure 2020
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A special thank you to all our clients
Client feedback and continuous improvement are important to us at Swaab and form a key component of our Swaab Brand of Service. The key findings included: we exceeded your expectations when it comes to our performance you find us extremely easy to work with, and you are likely to recommend your key contact and…