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Jul 22, 2019

Mary Digiglio fea­tured in Lawyers Week­ly podcast

Jerome , David and Mary unpack whether a four-day week would work, the impor­tance of flex­i­bil­i­ty and oth­er such move­ments away from the tra­di­tion­al nine to five. Click here to lis­ten to the podcast!…

Jul 19, 2019

Break­ing: Mary Digiglio fea­tured in The Aus­tralian today — ​‘Men­tal issues affect major­i­ty in law firms’

Mary Digiglio is fea­tured in today’s arti­cle in The Aus­tralian, say­ing ​“when you peel back the lay­ers, there is now a lot more per­mis­sion to talk about this issue”. For more details on the sur­vey vis­it the Mer­i­tas page of our web­site, alter­na­tive­ly, you can view the media release from The…

Jul 12, 2019

Break­ing: The Aus­tralian — Part­ner­ship Sur­vey 2019

Key find­ings in today’s instal­ment of The Aus­tralian​’s part­ner­ship sur­vey, shows the pro­por­tion of female equi­ty part­ners at Swaab being well above the legal pro­fes­sion’s aver­age. With females mak­ing up 60% of equi­ty part­ners and 53% of total part­ner num­bers. Man­ag­ing part­ner — Mary Digiglio com­ment­ed say­ing ​‘gen­der equi­ty with­in…

Jun 11, 2019

Mary Digiglio award­ed Well­ness Advo­cate of the Year 2019

Mary has con­tin­ued to inspire us all at Swaab with her per­sis­tence and ded­i­ca­tion in rais­ing aware­ness of the impor­tance of well­ness and well­be­ing and con­grat­u­late her on this fan­tas­tic achievement! Click here to view all the pho­tos from the night…

May 20, 2019

Swaab ranked in Doyles Guide 2019

Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio has been list­ed as a Rec­om­mend­ed Leas­ing Lawyer 2019, Part­ner Tony D’Agosti­no has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Lawyer 2019 and Part­ner Emma Flem­ing has been list­ed as Rec­om­mend­ed in Plan­ning & Devel­op­ment Lawyer 2019. Swaab has also been list­ed in both Rec­om­mend­ed Prop­er­ty & Real Estate Law…

May 17, 2019

Mer­i­tas | Glob­al Well­ness Launch

Fol­low­ing on from the open pan­el dis­cus­sion that Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego, we are proud to announce the launch of the Mer­i­tas Glob­al Well­ness initiative. As a world­wide net­work of law firms, Mer­i­tas has iden­ti­fied Well­ness as a key issue which is…

Apr 15, 2019

Mary Digiglio announced as a final­ist at the Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards 2019

The Lawyers Week­ly Part­ner of the Year Awards, in part­ner­ship with Tay­lor Root, show­cas­es out­stand­ing per­for­mance by part­ners, or part­ner equiv­a­lent, across indi­vid­ual prac­tice areas with­in the Aus­tralian legal indus­try — the only nation­al awards pro­gram to do so. We wish Mary all the best. The win­ners will be announced at…

Apr 9, 2019

Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 in San Diego — Well­ness in law

Mary Digiglio par­tic­i­pat­ed in an open pan­el dis­cus­sion among Mer­i­tas law firms at the recent Mer­i­tas Annu­al Meet­ing 2019 held in San Diego. The dis­cus­sion was on the grow­ing impor­tance law firms need to place on well­ness and well-being with­in the legal pro­fes­sion. Pan­elists show­cased the pro­grams and com­mit­ments they…

Feb 8, 2019

Well­ness is core to our philosophy

Our phi­los­o­phy is that we employ the ​“whole per­son” not just the lawyer, the sup­port per­son or the man­ag­er. Our staff are peo­ple first and fore­most. The days of expect­ing peo­ple to leave their per­son­al lives at the door are gone. It is inap­pro­pri­ate to expect peo­ple to take phone…

Feb 8, 2019

2019 a year of oppor­tu­ni­ties and growth

Whilst increased com­pe­ti­tion, dis­rup­tion and con­sol­i­da­tion con­tin­ue to play out through­out the legal sec­tor, our posi­tion in the mar­ket place of serv­ing entre­pre­neurs, busi­ness­es, inno­va­tors, fam­i­lies offices, fam­i­lies and gov­ern­ment remains in grow­ing demand. High­lights includ­ed help­ing a glob­al client with their nation­al busi­ness mod­el roll-out, work­ing with a num­ber of prop­er­ty…