Background
Kwok's professional life developed in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. The city was the setting for his university studies, his admission to the New South Wales legal profession, and his career as a partner in a Sydney law firm.
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Raymond Kwok
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Kwok studied at the University of Sydney, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours.
Founded by an act of the New South Wales Parliament in 1850, the University of Sydney was Australia's first university. It was built on the principles of religious tolerance and admission on academic merit, and it began teaching in 1852 with a small first intake of students.
The university began with a small faculty of arts, and it added faculties of law, medicine, and science in the 1880s and 1890s. Women were admitted to its undergraduate courses from 1881, one of the earliest such decisions in the world.
Career
Kwok's documented professional career is in law in Sydney, where he was a partner of Freehill Hollingdale & Page. The firm's Sydney practice traces back to the nineteenth century, when Bernard Austin Freehill began his practice in Sydney in 1871. Kwok was admitted to the bar in New South Wales in 1983.
The Sydney firm took the name Freehill, Hollingdale & Page in 1947, when partner Brian Page, who had joined the Hollingdale brothers in 1936, guided it toward corporate and commercial practice within Australia and internationally. In 2000, the state Freehill Hollingdale & Page partnerships merged into a single national partnership and were rebranded Freehills.
