Timothy Hirshman is an Australian lawyer based in Sydney, New South Wales. He was admitted to the bar in New South Wales in 1981 and became a partner of Freehill Hollingdale & Page, a Sydney commercial law firm whose name later changed to Freehills. He studied law at the University of Sydney, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws.
Background
The documented record of Timothy Hirshman's life places him in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales and Australia's largest city. It was there that he studied law and built his legal career.
Sydney's legal profession in the late twentieth century was closely tied to the large commercial firms that served Australian business, finance, and industry. Freehill Hollingdale & Page, the firm with which he is associated, was among the leading Sydney practices of that tradition.
Education
Hirshman studied law at the University of Sydney, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws. Founded in 1850 under colonial legislation, the university was the first in Australia and became one of the country's principal centres of legal education.
His admission to the bar in New South Wales in 1981 followed this legal training and marked his entry into the state's legal profession.
Career
Hirshman's documented professional position was that of partner in Freehill Hollingdale & Page, a Sydney law firm. The firm traced its origins to 1871, when Bernard Austin Freehill began practising in Sydney. It took the name Freehill Hollingdale & Page in 1947 and grew under the direction of partner Brian Page, who guided it toward corporate and commercial practice within Australia and internationally.
The firm was notable for its employment practices and for its development as a national practice. In 1978 it became the first major Australian law firm to appoint a female partner, and in 1979 it formed a national partnership with a Perth firm. In 2000 its state partnerships merged into a single national partnership called Freehills, and in 2012 the firm combined with Herbert Smith to form Herbert Smith Freehills.
Hirshman was admitted to the bar in New South Wales in 1981, which placed his practice within the state's legal profession during this period of the firm's growth.
