Australian National University. Photo: Dave Snowden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_House_ANU_Canberra_(2948649223).jpg)
Australian National University. Photo: Dave Snowden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_House_ANU_Canberra_(2948649223).jpg)
Pamela Morey-Nase was born on 12 October 1942 in Australia, during the Second World War, when the country was engaged in the wider conflict across the Pacific and Southeast Asia. Her early life and family circumstances are not documented in the available sources.
Pamela Morey-Nase studied at the Australian National University, where she completed a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. The university was established by an Act of the Australian Parliament passed on 1 August 1946, and it was created as a national institution for research. Its early programmes were graduate-only, and it began offering undergraduate degrees in 1960 after integrating with Canberra University College, which had been founded in 1929.
Her legal education led to admission to the bar in Victoria in 1977, placing her within the Victorian legal profession at the start of her professional career in Australia.
Pamela Morey-Nase practised law in Melbourne as a partner of Phillips Fox. The firm's name derived from an older, long-established Melbourne practice, Phillips Fox & Masel, and the firm operated under the collective name Phillips Fox, which became recognised as the first national law firm in Australia. Phillips Fox was regarded as one of Australia's most progressive and respected legal practices.
The firm operated as Phillips Fox from 1985 to 2006, and it later became part of the international network of DLA Piper. The Phillips Fox name was retired in 2011, when DLA Piper absorbed the Australian practice and closed DLA Phillips Fox.
She was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1977, the professional qualification that preceded her later work as a lawyer in Melbourne.
