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Con­grat­u­la­tions Swaab’s Prop­er­ty team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Lead­ing Prop­er­ty Real Estate Firm, NSW 2022

Con­grat­u­la­tions Swaab’s Prop­er­ty team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Lead­ing Prop­er­ty Real Estate Firm, NSW 2022 | 5 years running https://​doyles​guide​.com/​l​eadin……

Michael Hayter is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Par­ents of Melis­sa Cad­dick admit they were fleeced by fraud­ster daugh­ter” pub­lished in the SMH 12 April 2022

Caddick’s hus­band, Antho­ny Kol­leti, is stak­ing a claim over his wife’s assets, includ­ing part of any pro­ceeds from the sale of her Dover Heights home, accord­ing to an affi­davit filed by the solic­i­tor for the receivers, Michael Hayter, from Swaab lawyers. To read the full arti­cle click here…

James Skel­ton pre­sent­ed to the Mer­i­tas Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group, 12 April 2022

James Skel­ton was the spe­cial guest pre­sen­ter at last night’s Mer­i­tas Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group meet­ing, which includ­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Khai­tan & Co, Joyce Tan & Part­ners, Koji­ma Law, Broad & Bright, Law­Plus, AccraLaw and K1 Cham­ber LLP. James shared with the Asia Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Prac­tice Group details about Swaab’s IP and…

Pause before you Post – How social media can impact your Fam­i­ly Law matter

Irre­spec­tive of your feel­ings about social media – it is here to stay. In today’s social media world ​‚it seems that there is so lit­tle that we tru­ly keep pri­vate. We’ve nev­er been more con­nect­ed or had a wider plat­form to share each of our inti­mate thoughts how­ev­er, whilst some of…

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…

Swaab 2022 Lawyer Inter­view Series | Chris­t­ian Marchant

Why did you become a lawyer? I grew up around the con­struc­tion indus­try (4th gen­er­a­tion on my mum’s side and 2nd Gen­er­a­tion on my Dad’s) and there­fore, always felt com­fort­able liais­ing with peo­ple in the indus­try but was­n’t par­tic­u­lar­ly thrilled at the idea of man­u­al labour. Five years as a Trade Assis­tant…

Use of Audio and Video Record­ings in Fam­i­ly Law cases

It’s no secret that we are glued to our smart­phones. Thanks to tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments, we have a ​‘one stop shop’ device at our fin­ger­tips, which includes access to audio and video recordings. For many years, Fam­i­ly Lawyers have been pre­sent­ed with secret record­ings tak­en by clients in the hopes that the…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Preg­nant employee’s pay cut after trans­fer­ring to a ​‘safer’ job”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 28 April 2022:

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Preg­nant employee’s pay cut after trans­fer­ring to a ​‘safer’ job”, pub­lished in HRM Online on 28 April 2022: To read the full arti­cle click here…

Julie Briscoe will be pre­sent­ing at REGrowth’s work­shop on Mon­day 30 May 2022

If you are think­ing about buy­ing a busi­ness, suc­ces­sion plan­ning, a merge event or sell­ing your busi­ness now or in the future — then our Acqui­si­tion & Divest­ment Work­shop is one not to miss on the 30th May 20022 Loca­tion: Lev­el 4, 20 Hunter Street, Syd­ney NSW 2000Time: The course will run from 9:30am — 4:00pmTo…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Should lawyers take a pay cut for per­ma­nent WFH?”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 6 May 2022:

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, ​“Should lawyers take a pay cut for per­ma­nent WFH?”, pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 6 May 2022: To read the full arti­cle click here …

Swaab 2022 Lawyer Inter­view Series | Mary Digiglio

Why did you become a lawyer? I had been work­ing as a recep­tion­ist in a real estate office whilst at school and in my first years at uni (when I start­ed a Bach­e­lor of Ear­ly Child­hood Edu­ca­tion). Work­ing in real estate exposed me to prop­er­ty trans­ac­tions and I became inter­est­ed in prop­er­ty law so I chose to…

James Skel­ton is rep­re­sent­ing Swaab at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing | Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

James Skel­ton is hav­ing a fan­tas­tic time in Wash­ing­ton DC at the Inter­na­tion­al Trade­mark Asso­ci­a­tion (INTA) 2022 Annu­al Meet­ing meet­ing, catch­ing up with old and new intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty col­leagues on behalf of Swaab. At the halfway point now with plen­ty of inter­est­ing ses­sions and catch ups still ahead…

Michael Byrnes appeared on the Lawyers Week­ly pod­cast on the sub­ject ​“Emerg­ing from lock­down” released on 13 May 2022

Michael Byrnes appeared on the Lawyers Week­ly pod­cast on the sub­ject ​“Emerg­ing from lock­down” released on 13 May 2022. Like many sec­tors, the legal pro­fes­sion had to adapt to meet the demands of the COVID-19 lock­downs. Now is a good time to ask: what pos­i­tive changes should be kept in the…

Paid Fam­i­ly and Domes­tic Vio­lence Leave To Be a Mod­ern Award Entitlement

In a major deci­sion aris­ing from its Fam­i­ly and Domes­tic Vio­lence Leave Review 2021 ([2022] FWCFB 2001) a three mem­ber Full Bench of the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWCFB) has formed a pro­vi­sion­al view that mod­ern awards should be var­ied to pro­vide an enti­tle­ment to 10 days’ paid fam­i­ly and domes­tic vio­lence (FDV) leave in…

Michael Byrnes will be host­ing the Syd­ney ACC In-house Coun­sel — Triv­ia Night, Thurs­day 2 June 2022

The event will be held at the Syd­ney — Hard Rock Café, Thurs­day 2 June 2022 between 6.00pm and 9.00pm Any Ques­tions: For Con­fer­ence Enquiries1300 558 550 (toll free with­in Aus­tralia) OR+61 3 9248 5500ausevents@​accglobal.​com…