Redmond Byrne's documented professional life is rooted in Queensland, the Australian state in which he was admitted to practise law. Brisbane, the state capital, was the setting of his university education and his legal career.
Queensland's capital has long been the centre of the state's courts, law firms and university, which together formed the environment in which he trained and practised.
Byrne studied law at the University of Queensland, where he completed a Bachelor of Laws. The university was established on 10 December 1909 by an Act of the Queensland Parliament, passed to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Queensland's separation from New South Wales.
Its first classes were held in 1911 at Old Government House in Brisbane, with 83 students commencing. Its first teaching faculties, created in 1910, included engineering, classics, mathematics and chemistry.
He was admitted to the bar in Queensland in 1963, which qualified him to practise law in the state.
Byrne's documented career centres on his work as a partner of Feez Ruthning, a Brisbane law firm. The firm's surviving opinion books date from 1874 and contain written opinions that it commissioned from barristers on behalf of its clients. The Feez Ruthning name is now associated with Allens Arthur Robinson.
He was admitted to the bar in Queensland in 1963 and later worked as a partner of the firm. In an Australian law practice, a partner is a principal who shares in the ownership and management of the firm.
