News

13 Nov 2024

Press Release | Emma Nichelsen obtains Accred­it­ed Spe­cial­ist sta­tus with the Law Soci­ety of NSW in Fam­i­ly Law

Swaab Senior Asso­ciate Emma Nichelsen, has obtained Accred­it­ed Spe­cial­ist sta­tus with the Law Soci­ety of NSW in Fam­i­ly Law.Spe­cial­ist Accred­i­ta­tion is a struc­tured peer to peer assess­ment process enabling legal prac­ti­tion­ers to be recog­nised for their exper­tise. Each year the Law Soci­ety runs the accred­i­ta­tion pro­gram for a select num­ber of areas of law. The…

28 June 2024

Press Release | Three New Appoint­ments for Swaab

Wel­comeDaniela Ter­ru­so — Senior Asso­ciate, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects and Stra­ta & ConstructionSarah Abra­hams — Asso­ciate, Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & ProjectsMaris­sa Arag­o­na — Solic­i­tor, Fam­i­ly Law“These appoint­ments occur at a piv­otal time in our fir­m’s ongo­ing growth. Their com­bined exper­tise, expe­ri­ence, and capa­bil­i­ties will enhance our Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects and Fam­i­ly Law teams. This enables us…

1 Dec 2023

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Swaab’s Fam­i­ly law team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Law Firms – Syd­ney, 2024

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Swaab’s Fam­i­ly law team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Law Firms – Syd­ney, 2024. Con­grat­u­la­tions also goes to Greg Park­er for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide as a Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Fam­i­ly & Divorce Lawyers, Syd­ney 2024 & Rec­om­mend­ed Lead­ing Par­ent­ing & Children’s Mat­ters Lawyer – New South…

2 Aug 2023

Women in Part­ner­ship | The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Survey

The Australian’s Legal Part­ner­ship Sur­vey, released on Tues­day, reveals the num­ber of female lawyers is slow­ly creep­ing upwards, with women rep­re­sent­ing 33 per­cent of part­ners (up 2 per­cent on last year), 61 per­cent of grad­u­ates (up 0.1 per­cent), and 29 per­cent of equi­ty part­ners (up 2 per­cent). With 50% of women as…

21 Dec 2022

Press Release | New Senior Pro­mo­tions for Swaab

“It is tru­ly reward­ing to be able to recog­nise the fol­low­ing home grown tal­ent with well-deserved promotions: James Skel­ton appoint­ed to the posi­tion of Part­ner of Swaab. James start­ed at Swaab as a grad­u­ate in March 2015. Through his loy­al­ty, his com­mit­ment and hard work, James has become a trust­ed advi­sor to his…

5 Dec 2022

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Greg Park­er, Ryan Gan­non & the Fam­i­ly Law team for being recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2023

Con­grat­u­la­tions to: Greg Park­er for being recog­nised as a Lead­ing Par­ent­ing Lawyer 2023, click hereRyan Gan­non as a Fam­i­ly Law Ris­ing Stars, 2023, click here Swaab’s Fam­i­ly Law team a Lead­ing Syd­ney Fam­i­ly & Divorce Law Firms, click here…

21 July 2022

2023 Swaab Grad­u­ate Pro­gram | Announcement

Vis­it our web­site and social media pages for infor­ma­tion on how to apply, details about the pro­gram and to hear from our 2022 Graduates.  At Swaab you will work close­ly with our part­ners and lawyers, expos­ing you to a wide range of client mat­ters, teams and dif­fer­ent prac­tice areas. Our Grad­u­ate Pro­gram…

10 June 2022

Mary Digiglio is quot­ed in the arti­cle ​“Entre­pre­neur­ial, inde­pen­dent, nim­ble: small­er firms can thrive”, pub­lished in The Aus­tralian on 7 June 2022

Head­count is tight by choice, the deci­sion not to expand beyond Syd­ney is also by choice. Man­ag­ing Part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“We are nim­ble, we can do what­ev­er we want, there is a rel­a­tive lack of red tape and we are only account­able to each oth­er” Mary went onto say, ​“this…

9 June 2022

Swaab ranked amongst the high­est on part­ner­ship gen­der equality

The sur­vey high­light­ed the num­ber of female equi­ty part­ners in Aus­tralian law firms still hov­er around on aver­age 27 per cent. Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said,​“We have been able to achieve this bal­ance of gen­der equi­ty organ­i­cal­ly, with­out the need for quo­tas using a mer­it based sys­tem that recog­nis­es an…

19 Apr 2022

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…