Background
Sweeney's professional life was centred in Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. The city's University of Melbourne, founded in 1853, is the institution where he is documented as having studied law.
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Phillip Sweeney
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Sweeney's documented university qualification is a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. The university was established in 1853 by an act of the Parliament of Victoria, with power to confer degrees in arts, medicine, laws and music, and its first classes began in 1855.
A law school was added in 1857 at the Parkville campus. Melbourne Law School initially offered the LL.B. as its first degree for students seeking a first qualification in law, which places Sweeney's studies within the university's early legal teaching.
Career
Sweeney was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1970 and is documented as a partner of Phillips Fox, a law firm based in Melbourne.
Phillips Fox traced its origins to 1864, when the practice was founded as P.D. Phillips. It grew into one of the largest law firms in Australasia, and in a later alliance it joined the global DLA Piper group under the name DLA Phillips Fox.
