Bruce Gordon McManamey is a member of the McManamey family of Australian lawyers. His great-grandfather, Major James Fraser McManamey, was a New South Wales barrister, scholar, teacher, and sportsman who was killed at Gallipoli in 1915. Bruce McManamey later followed him into the legal profession as a barrister.
McManamey studied at the University of Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted as an Australian lawyer and to the New South Wales Bar in 1989.
McManamey was admitted as an Australian lawyer and to the New South Wales Bar in 1989 and has since practised as a barrister in Sydney. His documented areas of practice include appellate and common law, employment and industrial law, insurance law, professional negligence, trade practices and competition, medical negligence, personal injury, and workers compensation. He served as a sessional arbitrator of the New South Wales Workers Compensation Commission, including during the 2010–2013 period. He has also been recorded as a partner of Holman Webb. He practises from chambers in Sydney, including Sir James Martin Chambers and, subsequently, Sir Anthony Mason Chambers.
McManamey has been active in the Australian Lawyers Alliance and was identified as a New South Wales committee member of the organisation in parliamentary evidence concerning workers compensation law and policy.
McManamey is the great-grandson of Major James Fraser McManamey, a New South Wales barrister and First World War officer who was killed at Gallipoli in 1915. The family connection links his modern barristers’ practice with an earlier generation of the New South Wales legal profession.
