Gregory Howlett is an Australian lawyer who was a partner of the Sydney law firm Phillips Fox from 1986 to 2004. He studied at Macquarie University, completing a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the bar in Australia in 1982.
Education
Howlett studied at Macquarie University in Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws between 1977 and 1981. The university was founded by the New South Wales Government under the Macquarie University Act 1964 as the third university in Sydney's metropolitan area, and its classes began in 1967.
Macquarie was named after the early colonial governor Lachlan Macquarie, and its campus was established on a semi-rural site in North Ryde. Its law school was established in 1972 as Sydney's third law school, so it was a relatively young institution when Howlett enrolled in the late 1970s.
Career
Howlett was admitted to the bar in Australia in 1982, after completing his Bachelor of Laws at Macquarie University. Admission to practice was the formal step that qualified a law graduate to work as a practising lawyer in Australia.
From July 1986 until August 2004 he was a partner of Phillips Fox, a Sydney-based law firm that traced its origins to a practice founded in 1864 as P.D. Phillips. A business directory describes the firm as one of the largest law firms in Australasia.
Phillips Fox later became part of a larger international structure. It entered an exclusive alliance with DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, one of the largest legal services organisations in the world, and operated under the name DLA Phillips Fox. The parent relationship with DLA Piper began in November 2006, after Howlett's partnership had ended, and the Australian firm was later absorbed when DLA Piper opened for business in Australia.
