News

Sep 11, 2024

Con­grat­u­la­tions Nathan Davies for win­ning the 2024 Lawtech IT Leader of Year Small Firm

We are pleased to announce that Nathan Davies — Head of IT Swaab, has been recog­nised as the 2024 Lawtech IT Leader of Year Small Firm.The Annu­al Lawtech Sum­mit is the net­work­ing and edu­ca­tion­al forum for many of the Top & Mid-Tier Law firm’s CIO’s from across Aus­tralia & NZ. The Chilli IQ…

Dec 5, 2023

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients for com­plet­ing our 2023 Client Sat­is­fac­tion Survey

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 performanceyou find us extreme­ly easy to work with, and you are like­ly to rec­om­mend your key con­tact and Swaab to…

Dec 5, 2023

2023 End Of Year Event

“As the year comes to a close, Swaab part­ners, solic­i­tors, clients, and friends took time out to cel­e­brate anoth­er suc­cess­ful year. We appre­ci­ate your sup­port, which has been instru­men­tal in mak­ing this year a resound­ing suc­cess. Wish­ing you a joy­ful hol­i­day sea­son and antic­i­pat­ing con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion in the com­ing year.” Warm regards Mary Digiglio…

Nov 29, 2023

Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliance (AUSLSA) 2023 Annu­al Review of the State of CSR

As a found­ing mem­ber of the Aus­tralian Legal Sec­tor Alliance, an indus­try-led asso­ci­a­tion with a mis­sion to work col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly to pro­mote sus­tain­able prac­tices across the legal sec­tor, we are com­mit­ted to our ini­tia­tives, both sim­ple and com­plex. We have intro­duced sta­tionery recy­cling dri­ves, waste recy­cling, and reduc­ing pow­er usage through such ini­tia­tives…

Jun 7, 2023

Mer­i­tas Announces Emerg­ing Lead­ers Advi­so­ry Board That Wel­comes New Lead­er­ship & Two New Members

David Reid of Brazeau Sell­er Law (Ottawa, Ontario, Cana­da) has begun his term as the new Chair of Mer­i­tas’ Emerg­ing Lead­ers Advi­so­ry Board (ELAB), replac­ing out­go­ing Chair Shel­don Stokes of John­ston, Alli­son & Hord, P.A. (Char­lotte, North Car­oli­na, USA). The ELAB also has a new Chair-Elect, Char­lotte Whit­worth of Howard Kennedy (Lon­don…

Jun 7, 2023

Mer­i­tas Announces New Board of Direc­tors Class Elect­ed at Annu­al Meet­ing in Chica­go, Illi­nois, USA

The new direc­tors are: Drew Dill­worth of Stearns Weaver Miller in Mia­mi, Flori­da, USAEsther Domínguez of Marimón Abo­ga­dos in Barcelona, SpainAman­da Esch of Davis & Canon in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USAMatthew Evans of Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert in Hon­olu­lu, Hawaii, USAAndrew Lam­bros of Ben­nett & Philp Lawyers in Bris­bane, AustraliaDavid Reid of Brazeau Sell­er Law in Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaPhilip…

Apr 13, 2023

2023 Mer­i­tas​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers’ in-depth research teams assess lawyers and law firms across more than 200 juris­dic­tions around the world, pro­vid­ing inde­pen­dent and impar­tial intel­li­gence and mar­ket insight. Its research method­ol­o­gy is unri­valed in accu­ra­cy, depth, and qual­i­ty, deliv­er­ing indis­pens­able data insights based on rank­ings that tru­ly reflect abil­i­ty and talent. “This annu­al recog­ni­tion…

Mar 10, 2023

2023 Cor­po­rate World Cup

Last Fri­day 3 March, a team of eager foot­ballers known as the #swaaberoos, rep­re­sent­ed Swaab at the annu­al Foot­ball Devel­op­ment Aus­trali­a’s 2023 Cor­po­rate World Cup, held at UNSW Sport­ing Fields. Swaab’s team com­prised of Ger­ald Carides, Jonathon Youssef, Olivia Hobill Cole, Nathan Davies, Fiona Deng, Sophie Walk­er, Renee Hinkel­bein, William Clement, Alexan­der…

Dec 8, 2022

2022 End of Year Black & White Ball | Swaab

Each year Swaab’s Social Com­mit­tee find ways to out­do them­selves organ­is­ing the fir­m’s end of year par­ty. This year was no dif­fer­ent, as they put on a Black & White themed ball, at the lux­u­ri­ous Inter­Con­ti­nen­tal Syd­ney Hotel at Cir­cu­lar Quay. Staff and part­ners enjoyed a three course meal, live enter­tain­ment and danced…

Oct 17, 2022

Gotcha4Life Foun­da­tion fundrais­er at Swaab

Part­ner, Helen Kow­al and Head of Peo­ple and Cul­ture, Angela Sharpe and a team of helpers host­ed the Gotcha4Life Foun­da­tion fundrais­er at Swaab on Sat­ur­day night. Our staff, fam­i­lies and friends had a fan­tas­tic evening with plen­ty of danc­ing, thanks to the Dow Jones & the All Ordi­nar­ies. Every­one who attend­ed did their…