Andrew Logie-Smith's documented life is centred on Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, where he trained in law and built his professional career.
He was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1981. Melbourne's established law firms, including the older practice Phillips Fox & Masel, formed part of the professional setting in which his legal career developed.
Andrew Logie-Smith studied at Monash University, where he completed a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics. Monash was founded in 1958, and although it was originally designed to focus primarily on science and technology, it soon established a law school.
The Monash law school was created because Melbourne Law School, the city's only law school at the time, could no longer meet rising demand for legal education. The Faculty of Law was founded in 1964 and is based in Melbourne. Its graduates have since occupied many prominent legal posts in Victoria, including the Chief Justice, the Solicitor General and the State Coroner.
He was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1981, which marked his entry into legal practice following his university studies.
Andrew Logie-Smith's early professional career was with Phillips Fox, a Melbourne law firm in which he was a partner. Before the national grouping, Phillips Fox & Masel was an established Melbourne firm with agency relationships with other practices. The firm operated under the collective name Phillips Fox and was described as the first national law firm in Australia. It operated as Phillips Fox from 1985 to 2006, and the Australian practice was later absorbed when DLA Piper opened for business in Australia in 2011.
He later became managing partner of Logie-Smith Lanyon Lawyers, a Melbourne-based full-service commercial firm. In August 2019 the firm launched the Australasian Legal Alliance with Bartier Perry, a Sydney and Melbourne commercial firm, after the two practices had worked together informally on a number of matters.
His current practice centres on Logie Law Advisory in Melbourne, where his work spans commercial law, corporate governance and company directorships. He is also a partner of Colin Biggers & Paisley. Alongside his legal work, he has served as a director of WTFN Group, a Melbourne production company founded by Daryl Talbot and Steve Oemcke. The company is known for observational documentary, lifestyle and reality series such as Bondi Vet and The Living Room. He had been a non-executive director of WTFN for more than twenty years before taking over as chairman from the founding chairman, Frank Dunphy.
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Roderick Lyle, who joined Logie-Smith Lanyon from Clayton Utz as a senior corporate adviser, said he had known Andrew Logie-Smith for over 35 years and described him as a practitioner of enormous integrity.
