News

Jun 5, 2019

Mer­i­tas | ANZ Intern­ship Exchange

Solic­i­tors Pierce Bedog­ni of Martel­li McK­egg and John Trinh of Swaab, have swapped firms and coun­tries for two weeks to gain an under­stand­ing and insights into how each oth­ers firms oper­ate and how their legal sys­tems and leg­is­la­tion vary between juris­dic­tions. Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Mary Digiglio said, ​“It is won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty…

May 23, 2019

Aus­tralia & New Zealand Doing Busi­ness Guides 2019

The 2019 edi­tion of the Mer­i­tas Legal Guide for Busi­ness Invest­ment and Expan­sion in Aus­tralia and New Zealand are now avail­able to view.…

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…

Mar 27, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media

A High Court case will decide whether an employ­er can sack you over what you say anony­mous­ly on social media. Pub­lic ser­vant Michaela Baner­ji had worked for the Depart­ment of Immi­gra­tion and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion for sev­en years when she was fired in 2013. Her employ­er dis­cov­ered she was behind an anony­mous…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es work, health and safe­ty issues for junior lawyers in firms

Michael Byrnes and Jerome Doraisamy dis­cuss the WHS issues that law firms across the board need to be aware of when it comes to idio­syn­crat­ic issues affect­ing younger lawyers in the work­place, par­tic­u­lar­ly the impacts of fatigue, sus­tained stress, bul­ly­ing and exploita­tive inter­ac­tions with clients.Lis­ten to the pod­cast here…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the issue of employ­ees v inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors in the ​“gig economy”

The ​‘gig econ­o­my’ is a by-prod­uct of dis­rup­tive com­pa­nies and it’s rais­ing ques­tions for gov­ern­ments and employ­ment law experts. Are work­ers sole traders? Are they inde­pen­dent con­trac­tors? Are they employ­ees? Deliv­eroo is push­ing for a ​‘third way’ of legal­ly defin­ing con­tract work­ers, which would allow com­pa­nies to pro­vide some ben­e­fits –…

Mar 11, 2019

Michael Byrnes dis­cuss­es the legal issues aris­ing from video record­ing and dissemination

Michael Byrnes speaks with John Stan­ley on radio 2GB and 4BC about the legal­i­ty sur­round­ing video record­ing and what hap­pens if you are sent unwant­ed videos in light of a string of NRL sex tapes Lis­ten to the record­ing here…