Rollason's documented life is centred on Australia, where he trained in law and practised in Sydney. His professional path followed the legal institutions of New South Wales, from university study to admission to the bar and subsequent work in one of the city's leading commercial law practices.
Rollason completed a Bachelor of Laws at the Australian National University. The university was established by an act of the Australian federal parliament in 1946 as a national research institution based in Canberra.
Admission to the bar in New South Wales in 1970 followed as the next recorded stage of his legal training, linking his university education to legal practice in the state.
Rollason was admitted to the bar in New South Wales in 1970, marking his entry into legal practice in that state.
He later worked as a partner of Freehill Hollingdale & Page. The firm was founded in Sydney in 1871 by Bernard Austin Freehill and became Freehill, Hollingdale & Page in 1947, a name it carried until 2000, when its state partnerships merged into the national partnership Freehills. Under the direction of partner Brian Page, who joined the Hollingdale brothers in 1936 and became a partner in 1938, the firm expanded into corporate and commercial practice in Australia and internationally.
During the decades in which the firm bore the Freehill Hollingdale & Page name, it became one of Australia's largest law practices. It appointed its first female partner in 1978 and in 1979 formed Australia's first national law partnership with Muir Williams Nicholson & Co of Perth. These developments formed the wider setting of the firm in which Rollason practised as a partner.
