Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team, Kris Hung and Natale Iladro

Swaab wel­comes two new lawyers to our Lit­i­ga­tion team, Kris Hung and Natale Iladro.

Kris has gained expe­ri­ence in a broad range of per­son­al and cor­po­rate work, includ­ing insol­ven­cy and debt recov­ery and was involved in a large scale class action Fed­er­al Court mat­ter in which he had respon­si­bil­i­ty for con­duct­ing the dai­ly oper­a­tion of a Court super­vised set­tle­ment dis­tri­b­u­tion scheme. Kris has suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed a Bach­e­lor of Arts (Hons), major­ing in Chi­nese stud­ies and psy­chol­o­gy, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney and a Bach­e­lor of Laws at the Uni­ver­si­ty of NSW

Natale has gained sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence in a broad range of work, includ­ing debt recov­ery, bank­rupt­cy, com­mer­cial and lit­i­ga­tion. Natale com­plet­ed his Bach­e­lor of Arts (major­ing in Media Arts and Pro­duc­tion) and Bach­e­lor of Laws at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in 2010 and was admit­ted in August 2011. Natale also has expe­ri­ence in Insur­ance Law work, name­ly draft­ing sub­mis­sions and advices in rela­tion to pol­i­cy inter­pre­ta­tion and the oper­a­tion of the Insur­ance Con­tracts Act.

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Publications

More AI Slop in the Fair Work Juris­dic­tion: The Fight Back

In two recent cas­es both the Fair Work Com­mis­sion (FWC) and Fed­er­al Cir­cuit and Fam­i­ly Court of Aus­tralia (FCF­CoA) have…

NSW Build­ing (Approvals and Prac­ti­tion­ers) Bill 2026 Pass­es Parliament

The Build­ing (Approvals and Prac­ti­tion­ers) Bill 2026 (the Bill) passed through Par­lia­ment on Tues­day after­noon 4 August 2026. The Bill is…

AI Slop v Fair Work Com­mis­sion: The Scourge Continues

For all the talk of how extra­or­di­nary and trans­for­ma­tive arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) can sup­pos­ed­ly be, it con­tin­ues to be a scourge…

In the News

Michael Byrnes appeared on the Lawyers Week­ly Show pod­cast with Jerome Doraisamy released on 27 August 2026 to dis­cuss work­place law, social media use, and gen­er­a­tional attitudes

“Work­place law, social media use, and gen­er­a­tional atti­tudes” explores how social media, work­place rights, and chang­ing gen­er­a­tional expec­ta­tions are reshap­ing…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, “‘A bad career deci­sion’: Inside the fall­out from Tik­Tok grad­u­ate fir­ing” pub­lished in Lawyers Week­ly on 26 August 2026

Pro­fes­sion­al con­se­quences faced by an Aus­tralian grad­u­ate lawyer whose Tik­Tok activ­i­ty led to dis­missal, spark­ing indus­try-wide debate about social media use.Michael…

Michael Byrnes is quot­ed in the arti­cle, Busi­ness­es demand new pow­ers after worker’s hope­less’ AI claim costs employ­er”, pub­lished in the Aus­tralian on 23 August 2026

Busi­ness­es want new pow­ers because AI-assist­ed employ­ee claims are increas­ing the num­ber of weak or inac­cu­rate work­place com­plaints, forc­ing employ­ers…

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