Don Mazzone's documented life is centred on Victoria, Australia, where his university study, his admission to the bar, and his professional career all took place.
Monash University, the second university established in Victoria, was founded by a 1958 Act of the state parliament. Its establishment therefore formed part of the state's higher education landscape in the decades before Mazzone was admitted to the bar in 1977.
Mazzone's university education was at Monash University, where he studied for a Bachelor of Jurisprudence (B.Juris.).
Monash was established by an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1958, following the Murray Report, which Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies had commissioned in 1957 to plan a second university for Victoria. The university was named after the engineer and general Sir John Monash, and it welcomed its first students at its Clayton campus in 1961. It was originally intended to emphasise science and technology, but it quickly broadened its scope.
The university's Faculty of Law was founded in 1964 and is consistently ranked among the top law schools in Australia. Its Bachelor of Laws is highly competitive, and the faculty offers a range of postgraduate law degrees.
Mazzone was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1977. In Victoria, a law graduate must be admitted by the Supreme Court of Victoria and obtain a practising certificate before practising as a lawyer, so the 1977 admission marked his entry into the state's legal profession.
He later worked as a partner of Phillips Fox, a Melbourne law firm. The firm traced its origins to 1864, when it was founded as P.D. Phillips, and it grew into one of the larger law firms in Australasia. It later entered an exclusive alliance with the global firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and adopted the name DLA Phillips Fox.
The firm's Melbourne office was located on Bourke Street in the city centre, and Mazzone's professional address is recorded there.
