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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…

14 Dec 2021

Wish­ing you hap­py hol­i­days and a pros­per­ous new year

Over the hol­i­day peri­od, our offices will be closed from 5pm Thurs­day 23rd Decem­ber 2021 and will reopen 8.30am Mon­day 10th Jan­u­ary 2022…

3 Dec 2021

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Contest.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions to the Mer­i­tas mem­ber firm Robin­son Gray for win­ning the Mer­i­tas ​“Chal­lenge from the Chair: T‑shirt Design Con­test.” The t‑shirt our Man­ag­ing Part­ner — Mary Digiglio is wear­ing, fea­tures the win­ning design — One World / One Team #Team­Mer­i­tas. …

27 Oct 2021

The Inter­na­tion­al Bar Asso­ci­a­tion (IBA) today released its first glob­al sur­vey on Men­tal Well­be­ing in the Legal Profession

Work­ing with the IBA Legal Pol­i­cy & Research Unit team led by Sara Carnegie and George Art­ley, inter­na­tion­al sur­veys were con­duct­ed. A team of experts from every con­ti­nent was assem­bled. This report is the result of those efforts. With key find­ings, and the rec­om­men­da­tions of exist­ing reports and stud­ies into lawyer well­be­ing from…

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…

18 June 2021

Mary Digiglio — Man­ag­ing part­ner, quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Part­ner­ship sur­vey: Grow­ing firms ramp up demand for lawyers

Mary Digiglio — Man­ag­ing part­ner, quot­ed in The Aus­tralian arti­cle, Part­ner­ship sur­vey: Grow­ing firms ramp up demand for lawyers, pub­lished on 17 June 2021: Read full arti­cle here…

26 Mar 2021

Press Release | New Women’s Lead­er­ship Congress

As you may know, Swaab is a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, the pre­mier glob­al net­work of inde­pen­dent law firms. Our affil­i­a­tion enables our clients to do busi­ness any­where in the world. Mem­ber­ship in Mer­i­tas also pro­vides our firm with tools to enhance our prac­tice and grow. The Mer­i­tas Women’s Lead­er­ship Con­gress fur­thers gen­der equi­ty…

14 Dec 2020

Excit­ing News | 2021 New Part­ner Appointments

To meet the ever-grow­ing needs of our clients and in line with our strate­gic growth objec­tives, we are excit­ed to announce the appoint­ment of three new part­ners who will be join­ing Swaab in ear­ly 2021. These strate­gic appoint­ments will serve to enhance our abil­i­ty to deliv­er unri­valled val­ue for mon­ey and…

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!…

9 Oct 2020

Mary Digiglio is speak­ing at the vir­tu­al #ACCAM20, the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house counsel.

Mary Digiglio, Man­ag­ing Part­ner Swaab along with David Field, Chief Legal Coun­sel Canon Ocea­nia and Greg de Moore, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try West­mead Hos­pi­tal are excit­ed to be pre­sent­ing on fos­ter­ing #well­ness in a law depart­ment envi­ron­ment at #ACCAM20 the world’s largest gath­er­ing of in-house coun­sel. On Wednes­day, Octo­ber 14, 4.30pm…