Anne Magee is an Australian lawyer based in Melbourne, Victoria. She was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1984, studied arts and law at Melbourne University, and has worked as a partner of the law firm Phillips Fox.
Background
Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, was the setting for Magee's university study, her admission to the bar and her legal practice. The city grew rapidly after the Victorian gold rushes of the 1850s and became the colony's principal commercial and administrative centre.
The legal profession in Victoria was organised around the Supreme Court of Victoria, which admits barristers and solicitors to practise. Magee's documented career belongs to this Melbourne legal setting.
Education
Magee studied at Melbourne University, where the degrees recorded for her are a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Bachelor of Laws. Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne was the first university in the colony of Victoria and remains one of Australia's oldest universities.
Its law school developed alongside the Melbourne University Law Review, which emerged in 1957 from earlier publications of the law school and the Articled Clerks' Society of Victoria. Magee was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1984, after which her career centred on Melbourne legal practice.
Career
Magee was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1984 and has practised as a partner of Phillips Fox in Melbourne. The firm traced its origins to 1864, when it was founded as P.D. Phillips, and developed into one of the larger law practices in Australasia.
The Phillips Fox practice was absorbed into the global firm DLA Piper when DLA Piper began operating in Australia in 2011. The Melbourne partnership therefore belonged to a law firm whose name and structure changed during the later years of its existence.
