John Buttner is an Australian lawyer based in Melbourne, Victoria. He was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1982 and worked as a partner of the Melbourne law firm Phillips Fox. He studied at Monash University, where he completed economics and law degrees.
Education
Buttner studied at Monash University, where he completed a Bachelor of Economics (B.Ec.), a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master of Laws. Monash was established by an Act of the Victorian Parliament in 1958, following a period of rapid population growth and industrial demand in post-war Australia. Named after the soldier-engineer and administrator Sir John Monash, it became the second university founded in Victoria, and its first students were admitted at the Clayton campus in 1961.
The university was originally intended to emphasise science and technology, but it expanded quickly into a broader range of disciplines. His record also gives the abbreviation A.J.Arb.,A., which relates to arbitration.
Career
Buttner was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1982, beginning his legal practice in the Australian state's legal profession. Admission in Victoria qualified him to practise law there, and his later professional work was based in Melbourne.
He worked as a partner of Phillips Fox, a Melbourne law firm with a local office in the city. The firm's history traces back to 1864, when it was founded as P. D. Phillips. By the mid-2000s Phillips Fox was a full-service firm with offices in Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam, and it formed an alliance with the global firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary under the name DLA Phillips Fox.
The Phillips Fox name ended when DLA Piper opened for business in Australia and absorbed the firm in 2011.
