News

12 Oct 2021

2021 Mer­i­tas ​‘Elite’ Law Firm Network

Cham­bers out­lines the exact­ing cri­te­ria for ​‘Elite’ net­works in their com­men­tary for the 2021 guide: “In the Elite cat­e­go­ry of the Lead­ing Law Firm Net­works sec­tion, the rank­ings focus on the most impres­sive inde­pen­dent law firm net­works worldwide. The chief cri­te­ri­on for a lead­ing legal net­work, is that the mem­ber firms are inde­pen­dent…

16 Aug 2021

Fam­i­ly Court merg­er to change the way we separate

Speak­ing to the legal pro­fes­sion, Fam­i­ly Court Chief Jus­tice Will Alster­gren detailed the plan for next month’s merg­er of the Fam­i­ly Court and the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit Court of Aus­tralia (FCF­COA). These details include: One entry point to the new Court, which is to be renamed the Fam­i­ly Court and Fed­er­al Court…

29 June 2021

Swaab revealed as the fastest grow­ing law firm in Aus­tralia 2021, an inter­view with Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner, Mary Digiglio

Swaab’s Man­ag­ing part­ner Mary Digiglio said, ​“the firm’s major growth had been in prop­er­ty, but no areas were subdued”. Mary went onto say, ​“the fir­m’s growth in part­ner num­bers have been a direct result of the fir­m’s strat­e­gy. With increased demand from our clients and fore­cast­ed demand from our key indus­try sec­tors…

18 Jan 2021

Press Release | Three New Senior Appoint­ments for Swaab

Tri­na Fran­cis – Part­ner, Fam­i­ly Law, spe­cial­is­ing in fam­i­ly law, lawyer-assist­ed medi­a­tion and lit­i­ga­tion will be join­ing our award win­ning accred­it­ed spe­cial­ist Fam­i­ly Law team. With over 20 years’ expe­ri­ence Tri­na has worked exclu­sive­ly in the area of Fam­i­ly Law, ini­tial­ly as an advo­cate for clients of a com­mu­ni­ty legal cen­tre before…

10 Dec 2020

Ryan Gan­non recog­nised in Doyles Guide

Ris­ing Stars are indi­vid­u­als prac­tis­ing across Fam­i­ly, Divorce, Par­ent­ing and Mat­ri­mo­ni­al mat­ters with­in the New South Wales legal mar­ket who, while not includ­ed in our Lead­ing Fam­i­ly or Par­ent­ing Lawyer Rank­ings have been specif­i­cal­ly not­ed as being a ​‘Ris­ing Star’ with­in the afore­men­tioned areas.View the full list­ing here…

10 Dec 2020

Fam­i­ly Law recog­nised in Doyles Guide 2020

Greg Park­er as a Rec­om­mend­ed Fam­i­ly & Divorce LawyerAnnette Wil­son as a Rec­om­mend­ed Par­ent­ing & Chil­dren’s Mat­ters LawyerRyan Gan­non as a Ris­ing Star in Fam­i­ly Law for 2021 Our ded­i­cat­ed pro­fes­sion­als have been select­ed because of their exper­tise and abil­i­ties, focus on client ser­vice and their com­mit­ment to excel­lence. We con­grat­u­late them on their achievements. View the full…

10 Nov 2020

Hol­i­day Office Clo­sure 2020

If you need to speak with one of our lawyers, please call +61 2 9233 5544. We wish you a hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year!…

21 Sept 2020

A spe­cial thank you to all our clients

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

24 Apr 2020

COVID-19 | Wit­ness­ing the exe­cu­tion of doc­u­ments dur­ing the pandemic

What’s news in New South Wales? The Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Amend­ment (COVID-19 Wit­ness­ing of Doc­u­ments) Reg­u­la­tion 2020 (NSW) The COVID-19 Leg­is­la­tion Amend­ment (Emer­gency Mea­sures) Act 2020 (NSW) includ­ed a reg­u­la­tion-mak­ing pow­er in sec­tion 17 of Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Act 2000 (NSW) (the Act) to pro­vide for altered arrange­ments for the sig­na­ture, wit­ness­ing or attes­ta­tion…

2 Apr 2020

Fam­i­ly law team con­tin­ue to assist you dur­ing COVID-19

At the moment there are real con­cerns about cur­rent par­ent­ing orders and how they oper­ate in the COVID-19 cli­mate. It is pos­si­ble to vary or sus­pend cur­rent Orders and there are also cir­cum­stances where non-com­pli­ance with Orders can be accept­able if that non-com­pli­ance is rea­son­able. Par­ents are required to do…