Mark Bahen's documented background is rooted in Western Australia, where he studied law and built his professional life. Perth, the state capital, is the home of the University of Western Australia and its law school, and the state's legal profession provided the setting for his admission to practice.
Bahen studied law at the University of Western Australia, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree. The university was established by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia in 1911, and it began teaching students in 1913 at its original Irwin Street site.
The Faculty of Law was added in 1927 and developed into the UWA Law School, the oldest law school in Western Australia and the fifth oldest in Australia. The school's law review, the UWA Law Review, began publication in 1948, reflecting the school's early commitment to legal scholarship.
Bahen was admitted to the bar in 1975, marking his admission to legal practice in Western Australia.
Bahen's documented professional career is in legal practice in Western Australia. He was admitted to the bar in the state in 1975 and later served as a partner of Robinson Cox.
Robinson Cox belonged to a long-established Western Australian law practice. The firm's history dates to 1889, when Robert Thomson Robinson became a partner in a practice that began in Albany, and it traded under several names over time, including Haynes & Robinson, Robinson & Cox, and Robinson, Cox & Wheatley. Its partnerships were also documented in Perth, where the firm had premises in Howard Street in the early twentieth century.
