Masel's documented life is centred on Melbourne, Victoria, the city in which he pursued his university studies and built his legal career. Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, provided the educational and professional setting for his training and practice.
Masel studied at the University of Melbourne, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. Founded in 1853, the university was the first university in Victoria and remains the oldest in the state.
His legal training led to his admission to the bar in Victoria in 1953. In Victoria, the bar forms a separate branch of the legal profession, and admission to it qualifies a lawyer to practise as a barrister, the advocacy-focused branch, alongside the solicitor's branch.
Masel was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1953 and later practised as a partner of Phillips Fox in Melbourne. The firm traces its origins to 1864, when it was founded as P.D. Phillips. In the mid-twentieth century it was known as Phillips, Fox and Masel.
The firm later became part of the global DLA Piper network under the name DLA Phillips Fox, following an exclusive alliance with DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, a large international legal services organisation.
A Victorian Bar News article described Geoff Masel of the firm as having briefed counsel for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria in insurance-related matters. The SECV was a state-owned electricity authority, so this work shows the firm handling matters for a large public body.
