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The Law Soci­ety of NSW Advance­ment of Women Charter

The Advance­ment of Women Char­ter is designed to pro­mote and sup­port strate­gies to retain women in the pro­fes­sion over the course of their careers and encour­age and pro­mote their career pro­gres­sion into senior exec­u­tive and man­age­ment posi­tions. To achieve this the Char­ter aims to assist legal prac­tices to devel­op cul­tures…

Swaab launch­es fixed fee IP Dis­cov­ery service

PRo­tect­ing your great­est asset: your busi­ness reputation IP Discovery The rep­u­ta­tion of your busi­ness may be the most valu­able asset it pos­sess­es. That rep­u­ta­tion is the face you present to the mar­ket in your com­mer­cial names, brands and pro­mo­tion­al mate­r­i­al. In intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty terms your busi­ness rep­u­ta­tion can be spec­i­fied as your…

James Skel­ton wins 2017 30 Under 30 award for Commercial

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has been announced as a win­ner in the com­mer­cial cat­e­go­ry of the Lawyers Week­ly 30 Under 30 awards for 2017. James is one of 30 young guns recog­nised as the best young tal­ent in the Aus­tralian legal pro­fes­sion. Each can­di­date was judged on their sub­mis­sion of work…

James Skel­ton has been announced as a ​‘Young Gun of the Year’ final­ist in the Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has been announced as a final­ist in the ​‘Young Gun of the Year’ cat­e­go­ry of the Aus­tralian Law Awards 2017. Now in its 17th year, the annu­al Lawyers Week­ly Aus­tralian Law Awards cel­e­brates legal pro­fes­sion­als across 34 cat­e­gories from the most senior ranks to its ris­ing stars.We…

Mary Digiglio announced as final­ist in the Women in Law Awards

Mary Digiglio has been announced as an ​‘Exec­u­tive of the Year’ final­ist for the Women in Law Awards. The Lawyers Week­ly Women in Law Awards recog­nis­es the achieve­ments of women who have chal­lenged, influ­enced or changed the prac­tise of law in Australia. As Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Swaab Attor­neys, Mary leads the firm…

James Skel­ton named 2017 Aus­tralian Young Lawyer of the Year by The Law Coun­cil of Australia

Con­grat­u­la­tions to James Skel­ton who has tak­en out the 2017 Aus­tralian Young Lawyer Award.  James spe­cialis­es in the areas of com­mer­cial, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy law at Swaab Attor­neys and won the 2017 Lawyers Week­ly ​“30 Under 30” Award for com­mer­cial law in Aus­tralia and was pre­vi­ous­ly a final­ist in the 201…

Fam­i­ly Law prac­tice recog­nised in Doyles Guide 

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Fam­i­ly Law prac­tice at Swaab Attor­neys who have been recog­nised in sev­er­al cat­e­gories of the Doyles Guide Fam­i­ly Law Rankings. Not only has Swaab Attor­neys been recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Law Firm for 2018 but 3 lawyers have been indi­vid­u­al­ly awarded.  Greg Park­er is a Rec­om­mend­ed…

New Part­ner Joins Employ­ment Team

Swaab are delight­ed to wel­come new part­ner Michael Byrnes to the fir­m’s Employ­ment Practice. Michael brings with him over 21 years’ expe­ri­ence in employ­ment law with a spe­cial­i­ty in Work­place rela­tions, Employ­ment and Safe­ty. Michael’s broad range of expe­ri­ence includes employ­ment con­tract nego­ti­a­tion, employ­ment law aspects of cor­po­rate trans­ac­tions and appear­ing as an…

Mary Digiglio and Tony D’Agosti­no ranked in Doyles Guide 2018

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Mary Digiglio and Tony D’Agosti­no who have been iden­ti­fied by clients and peers for their exper­tise and abil­i­ties in Prop­er­ty and Real Estate Law. Both Mary and Tony have been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in the Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyers cat­e­go­ry and Mary has also been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed…

Emma Flem­ing and Cecil­ia Rose ranked in Doyles Guide 2018

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Emma Flem­ing and Cecil­ia Rose who have been iden­ti­fied by clients and peers for their exper­tise and abil­i­ties in Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment law. Both Emma and Cecil­ia have been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in the Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyers cat­e­go­ry and Emma has also been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in the Envi­ron­ment…

Swaab wins the 2018 Mer­i­tas ​‘Inno­vate to Ele­vate’ award

Swaab Attor­neys have been award­ed the inau­gur­al ​‘Inno­vate to Ele­vate’ award by Mer­i­tas for 2018. The award is a way to recog­nise and reward inno­v­a­tive think­ing that pro­motes improved per­for­mance with­in the organisation.  Mary proud­ly received the ​‘Inno­va­tion to Ele­vate’ award at the Inter­na­tion­al Mer­i­tas Law Firms World­wide Con­fer­ence held in…

Alyce John­son named ​‘Ris­ing Star’ by Doyles Guide

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Alyce John­son who has been list­ed by Doyle’s Guide as a Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Ris­ing Star — Aus­tralia & New Zealand.The rank­ings are com­piled from the respons­es con­tained in our Aus­tralia & New Zealand ‑wide sur­vey of Part­ner-lev­el Plan­ning & Envi­ron­ment Lawyers and clients. See the rank­ings here…

The AHRC and Crim­i­nal Record Dis­crim­i­na­tion: A Tooth­less Tiger

The recent AHRC report into dis­crim­i­na­tion in employ­ment on the basis of crim­i­nal record, BE v Sun­corp Group Ltd [2018] AusHRC 121, has gar­nered sig­nif­i­cant media atten­tion and com­mu­ni­ty debate. What it serves to high­light is that the Aus­tralian Human Rights Com­mis­sion (AHRC) is a ​“tooth­less tiger” when it comes to dis­crim­i­na­tion…

Every­one lies in their job appli­ca­tions… so can I fire them?

There is a com­mon per­cep­tion that most peo­ple lie in their résumés and job appli­ca­tions. Whether it be the exag­ger­at­ing the senior­i­ty of a role, extend­ing the length of time you actu­al­ly worked in a par­tic­u­lar posi­tion or describ­ing a par­tic­u­lar epoch as ​“time spent trav­el­ling” to avoid dis­clos­ing a short but ill-fat­ed peri­od of…

Estab­lish­ment fees in pri­vate financ­ing transactions

As the banks have tight­ened their lend­ing cri­te­ria, we have been work­ing with a num­ber of pri­vate financiers who have increased their activ­i­ty to sat­is­fy the demand for debt finance in the SME mar­ket. Most lenders charge bor­row­ers an estab­lish­ment fee to help recov­er the costs of estab­lish­ing a loan facil­i­ty. The…