Mer­i­tas

Mer­i­tas mem­ber firms pro­vide you with high-qual­i­ty, legal exper­tise any­where in the world. The unique qual­i­ty con­trol and rat­ing sys­tem of the Mer­i­tas alliance and its invi­ta­tion-only mem­ber­ship ensure that if you need legal ser­vices in oth­er juris­dic­tions, we can access our net­work of trust­ed col­leagues whose qual­i­ty of work is as high as our own. Each law firm is sub­ject to reg­u­lar re-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as a require­ment of mem­ber­ship, ensur­ing alliance firms con­tin­u­al­ly pro­vide supe­ri­or legal service.

Mer­i­tas’ vision is to con­tin­ue as the pre­mier glob­al net­work of inde­pen­dent law firms by pro­vid­ing pro­grams that enhance our mem­bers’ abil­i­ty to com­pete, grow and serve their clients’ needs. They achieve this vision by lever­ag­ing data, mar­ket intel­li­gence, and brand to cre­ate a com­pet­i­tive advantage.

Through Mer­i­tas, we have access to over 180 firms, across 80 coun­tries. Ensur­ing that no mat­ter your legal needs, we can locate a mem­ber firm who under­stands the local cus­toms, legal sys­tem and busi­ness environment.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and ben­e­fits of the work­ing with a Mer­i­tas mem­ber visit:

www​.mer​i​tas​.org 

Oth­er firms that form the Aus­tralia & New Zealand Mer­i­tas region:

• DMAW Lawyers
• Ben­nett & Philp Lawyers
• Madg­wicks
• Williams + Hugh­es Lawyers
• Martel­li McKegg

Exam­ple of lan­guages spoken:

• Can­tonese
• Eng­lish
• Ger­man
• Greek
• Hin­di
• Indone­sian (Bahasa Indonesia)
• Ital­ian
• Malay (Bahasa Malaysian / Bahasa Melayu)
• Man­darin
• Pun­jabi

In part­ner­ship with:

• Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Manufacturers

Cham­bers ​‘Elite’ ranking:

Cham­bers and Part­ners, the world’s lead­ing legal rank­ings organ­i­sa­tion and defin­i­tive guide to lead­ing pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices providers in key mar­kets world­wide, named Mer­i­tas an Elite Glob­al Legal Net­work — its high­est designation.

The Cham­bers rat­ing sys­tem for the glob­al legal net­work guide con­sists of band­ed rank­ings for organ­i­sa­tions and lawyers. Band 1 is the high­est of 6 bands. Rank­ings are based on sur­vey find­ings and sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ments, with an aggre­gate rat­ing band assigned by Cham­bers to those recog­nised as wor­thy of inclu­sion in the guide. The qual­i­ties on which rank­ings are assessed include client ser­vice, tech­ni­cal legal abil­i­ty, pro­fes­sion­al con­duct, com­mer­cial astute­ness, dili­gence, com­mit­ment, and oth­er qual­i­ties most val­ued by clients.

Mer­i­tas has earned this sig­nif­i­cant rank­ing con­sec­u­tive­ly in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

• Refer Mer­i­tas’ 2025 announcement