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Mary Digiglio short-list­ed as a final­ist in this year’s Lawyers Week­ly Women in Law Awards 

We are proud to announce that Swaab Attor­neys Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio, has been short-list­ed as a final­ist in this year’s Lawyers Week­ly Women in Law Awards in the Exec­u­tive of the Year category. This recog­nis­es Mary’s stew­ard­ship of our firm that is pro­duc­ing dou­ble dig­it growth and see­ing the firm wel­come…

Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann fea­tured in AFR arti­cle on pro­tect­ing your wealth if you split up

Fam­i­ly Law spe­cial­ist Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann has been cit­ed in a recent Aus­tralian Finan­cial Review arti­cle dis­cussing the small mea­sures that can be tak­en pre­emp­tive­ly to improve the chances of pro­tect­ing wealth if a rela­tion­ship splits up. Mar­i­lyn observed that:​“For younger cou­ples who don’t want to go down the pre-nup route, metic­u­lous record-keep­ing…

Anne Ful­wood in con­ver­sa­tion with Pure­pro­file CEO, Paul Chan 

In the busi­ness of being an entre­pre­neur, every­one has a sto­ry worth lis­ten­ing to. Ideas into action, fac­ing your fears, will they buy what you want to sell? It’s all part of the lan­guage of entre­pre­neur­ship, and this week we had the plea­sure of hear­ing Paul Chan’s sto­ry at a Swaab Q&A Mas­ter­class…

Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann com­ments on the uptick in fam­i­ly law mat­ters at this time of the year

“Ear­ly Jan­u­ary, unfor­tu­nate­ly, is a hive of activ­i­ty in fam­i­ly law,” reveals attor­ney Mar­i­lyn Haupt­mann. ​“The phone starts ring­ing in the first week with a lot of new inquiries.” Read the com­plete arti­cle on-line. If a deci­sion has been tak­en to divorce, then here is a starter kit of doc­u­ments you need to gather: Spouse’s/partner’s tax returns…

Mer­i­tas Guide to Doing Busi­ness in Aus­tralia and New Zealand

Swaab is a mem­ber firm of the glob­al Mer­i­tas net­work. Mer­i­tas has recent­ly released its Guide to Doing Busi­ness in Aus­tralia and New Zealand in Eng­lish and Man­darin. This guide is intend­ed to pro­vide prac­ti­cal and use­ful insights into the 10 most com­mon ques­tions fac­ing for­eign investors and businesses:  What role does…

Trans­gen­der chil­dren, the law, and a boy born in the skin of a girl

Solic­i­tor Adam Zwi has had an impor­tant Op Ed pub­lished in the Guardian. It deals with the anguish of a young per­son with gen­der dys­pho­ria, and argues that he should not need to seek court autho­ri­sa­tion before begin­ning hor­mone treatment. Click here to read the Op Ed. …

Swaab’s Cate­ri­na Meduri appoint­ed Young Lawyers’ Representative

Swaab Attor­neys’ very own Cate­ri­na Meduri has been appoint­ed as the Young Lawyers’ Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Law Soci­ety’s Alter­na­tive Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Committee. NSW Young Lawyers is the state’s largest group of young and new­ly prac­tis­ing lawyers and law stu­dents, and Cateri­na’s suc­cess is a tes­ta­ment to her dili­gence and abil­i­ty in the practice…

Swaab hosts Women in Health Business Q&A

On Wednes­day 14 April, Swaab host­ed a Busi­ness Q&A for women of the world who recog­nise the val­ue of good health.  Led by Anne Ful­wood (Head of PR, Oglivy), atten­dees were asked us to pose ques­tions, share insights, explore pos­si­bil­i­ties and take away some very use­ful infor­ma­tion to keep healthy.The con­ver­sa­tion was…

Swaab Attor­neys builds on its PPP Team

Cecil­ia Rose has joined Swaab Attor­neys as spe­cial coun­sel for the Prop­er­ty Plan­ning and Projects team.Cecil­ia has exten­sive lit­i­ga­tion expe­ri­ence in the Land and Envi­ron­ment Court and Supreme Court of NSW and many years’ expe­ri­ence in nav­i­gat­ing clients through the issues they are con­front­ed with in the vast­ness of plan­ning…

Swaab hosts the world pre­mière of Disrupted

Swaab Attor­neys in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Com­merce host­ed the world pre­mière of Dis­rupt­ed, a Front Run­ner Pro­duc­tions film direct­ed by Adam Dostalek. The film was sup­port­ed by Gem­star Tech­nol­o­gy, Cham­ber of Com­merce & Indus­try Queens­land, Design­er Rugs, Investec and Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Commerce. Trav­el­ling from Israel to Sin­ga­pore, Dis­rupt­ed explores…

Inno​va​tionAus​.com Bud­get Insid­er 2016

Swaab Attor­neys played host to InnovationAus.com’s inau­gur­al Bud­get Insid­er event, join­ing Stone & Chalk, Cov­iu, Zeet­ings and ACS as sup­port­ing partners. A crowd of over 120 peo­ple from across the ecosys­tem gath­ered to hear the views of lead­ing experts in the tech, start­up and gov­ern­ment sec­tors who pro­vid­ed com­men­tary on the forces…

Lucy in Israel, with Aussie diamonds

Part­ner Michelle Harpur and Busi­ness Devel­op­ment and Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er Maria Mac­Na­ma­ra trav­elled to Israel as part of the Aus­tralia-Israel Cham­ber of Com­merce Trade Mis­sion with Lucy Turn­bull.Lucy in Israel, with Aussie dia­monds quotes both Michelle and Maria as the arti­cle sum­maris­es the learn­ings of the mis­sion. To read the arti­cle…

Swaab hosts Awe­some Wom­en’s Dinner 

Swaab Attor­neys, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Uber and The Chief Dis­rupter, have host­ed the third Awe­some Wom­ens’ Din­ner on 1 June, 2016.  Almost 80 women from the not-for-prof­it, busi­ness and pub­lic sec­tor came togeth­er to share ideas, expe­ri­ences and opportunities.  The evening was marked by a desire to share our tal­ent and time…

Well­ness — the key to good health in law

Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Mary Digiglio has pub­lished her lat­est blog, ​‘Well­ness — the key to good health in law’. The blog out­lines the firms approach to well­ness and the key ini­tia­tives being under­tak­en by the firm.Click here to read the blog…

War­wick Ryan’s lat­est Employ­ment blog

War­wick Ryan has pub­lished his lat­est blog, ​‘The com­plex­i­ty of employ­ment law in Aus­tralia has no future in the ​‘future”. The blog exam­ines the cur­rent laws and their place in the future of work.Click here to read War­wick­’s blog…