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Swaab joins the con­ver­sa­tion on work­place diver­si­ty in lawyers weekly

Swaab CEO, Bron­wyn Pott has fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on work­place diver­si­ty and flex­i­ble work arrange­ments. Bron­wyn dis­cuss­es her man­age­ment approach to flex­i­ble work­ing arrange­ments and the need for them to be mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial as well as practical. Swaab has a num­ber of tai­lored work arrange­ments in place, with 30 per­cent of…

Swaab takes out ALP­MA inno­va­tion award

Swaab Attor­neys has tak­en out the 2012 Aus­tralasian Legal Prac­tice Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion (ALP­MA) Inno­va­tion Award. ALP­MA award­ed the firm for their abil­i­ty to ​“always do things a bit dif­fer­ent­ly” and for ​“being at the fore­front of man­age­ment think­ing”. The award recog­nised the fir­m’s achieve­ments on both an employ­ee and prac­tice man­age­ment front…

Swaab Award­ed Inno­va­tion Award at Annu­al ALP­MA Awards Night

Swaab was recent­ly recog­nised by the NSW branch of the Aus­tralasian Legal Prac­tice Man­age­ment Asso­ci­a­tion [ALP­MA] with the Inno­va­tion Award at their annu­al awards evening. Swaab received the acco­lade for their efforts in ​“tak­ing things to the next lev­el” when it comes to ser­vice deliv­ery and client focus. ALP­MA NSW Pres­i­dent Sal­ly…

Swaab a final­ist at the BRW Client Choice Award for the 8^th Con­sec­u­tive Year

Swaab has been nom­i­nat­ed in the cat­e­go­ry of Best Law Form rev­enue under $50 mil­lion at the 2013 BRW Client Choice Awards. It is the 8th con­sec­u­tive year that Swaab have been nom­i­nat­ed for a BRW Client Choice Award. The BRW client ser­vice sur­vey is the largest inde­pen­dent sur­vey of pro­fes­sion­al ser­vice…

Swaab fea­tured in ALB on Post­grad­u­ate Studies

ALB has fea­tured Swaab senior asso­ciate, Marc Bad­dams in their recent arti­cle explor­ing post­grad­u­ate stud­ies for legal prac­ti­tion­ers as it becomes an increas­ing­ly vital tool for career pro­gres­sion. Marc explains how his Mas­ter of Laws from The Uni­ver­si­ty of NSW has helped him take the next step in his career…

Nao­mi Mes­sen­ger Pro­mot­ed to Spe­cial Counsel

Swaab are pleased to announce the pro­mo­tion of Nao­mi Mes­sen­ger to Spe­cial Coun­sel. Nao­mi has been with the firm for 6 years and the pro­mo­tion recog­nis­es her com­mit­ment, spe­cial­ist skill set, out­stand­ing client ser­vice and client rela­tion­ship man­age­ment and will ensure that Nao­mi is recog­nised in the mar­ket­place as an expe­ri­enced…

Swaab wel­comes new solicitor

Swaab are delight­ed to wel­come Euge Pow­er as a solic­i­tor in our lit­i­ga­tion team. Euge is the sec­ond solic­i­tor to under­take our recent­ly estab­lished grad­u­ate pro­gram, which involves three 6 month rota­tions through our prac­tice groups. Pri­or to his arrival at Swaab, Euge worked for over 5 years at the Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia…

Swaab wel­comes new fam­i­ly law associate

We are pleased to announce the appoint­ment of Car­la San­to as an asso­ciate to our esteemed fam­i­ly law team. Car­la is expe­ri­enced in all areas of fam­i­ly law includ­ing prop­er­ty mat­ters, par­ent­ing mat­ters, bind­ing finan­cial agree­ments, child sup­port agree­ments and spousal main­te­nance. She is a pro­fi­cient nego­tia­tor in finan­cial mat­ters and her…

Swaab builds on prop­er­ty team

Stacey Collins has joined Swaab Attor­neys as a senior asso­ciate, expand­ing the fir­m’s capa­bil­i­ty in their prop­er­ty team. Stacey has act­ed for a range of large and medi­um sized devel­op­ers, util­i­ty com­pa­nies and gov­ern­ment bod­ies. Stacey has expe­ri­ence in both com­mer­cial and lit­i­ga­tion law out­side of her exten­sive expe­ri­ence in prop­er­ty law…

War­wick Ryan fea­tured in Lawyers Weekly

Swaab employ­ment part­ner War­wick Ryan has been fea­tured in the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner Pro­file. War­wick talks about why he enjoys his work at Swaab, ​“to me it’s being able to solve prob­lems for my clients that enable them to move for­ward with their lives and con­tin­ue to run suc­cess­ful businesses.” See…

2013 Swaab Promotions

Swaab has announced its Asso­ciate and Senior Asso­ciate pro­mo­tions for 2013. Lawyers Eliz­a­beth DeBono and Kel­ly Mar­shall have both been pro­mot­ed to the role of asso­ciate, and Tom John­ston has been pro­mot­ed to the role of Senior Asso­ciate. Both Eliz­a­beth and Tom are a part of our lit­i­ga­tion prac­tice and Kel­ly…

Swaab part­ner talks employ­ment taboos

Swaab part­ner Richard Ott­ley appeared on ABC Radio Nation­al on a pan­el dis­cussing work­place taboos. Richard specif­i­cal­ly talked about swear­ing at work and the impli­ca­tions it can have on employ­ees and the work­place. > Lis­ten to the full discussion…

Matthew Hall fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on ABA IP case

Swaab IP part­ner, Matthew Hall has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly com­ment­ing on the legal action brought about by the Aus­tralian Bar Asso­ci­a­tion against bar­ris­ter Derek Minus for alleged pass­ing-off, mis­lead­ing and decep­tive con­duct regard­ing his new bar­ris­ter-list­ing web­site Aus­tralasian Bar­ris­ter Cham­bers and use of the Aust­bar domain name…

Swaab CEO fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly on suc­ces­sion planning

Swaab CEO, Bron­wyn Pott has been fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly dis­cussing the impor­tance of ear­ly action when it comes to suc­ces­sion plan­ning in bou­tique firms. Bron­wyn talks about her own expe­ri­ence at Swaab in man­ag­ing a suc­cess­ful pipeline of tal­ent with­in the firm. Bron­wyn will be par­tak­ing in the Busi­ness Suc­ces­sion Round­table…

Social Media Report 2013

You may recall ear­li­er in the year we released a sur­vey on social media that asked a series of ques­tions around access­ing login details and using social media con­tent. The same sur­vey was run by our Mer­i­tas affil­i­ate firm, Kohrman Jack­son & Krantz and we have now com­piled the results of both sur­veys…