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    New video celebrates the history of women in law

    A new video has been released as part of the First 100 Years Initiative that celebrates the history of women in...

    Women in law: first 100 years

    BY JANE SOUTHWARD A new initiative is bringing together lawyers to celebrate how far women have come in the legal profession...

    Mary Gaudron

    Mary Gaudron made a huge breakthrough in February 1987 when she became the first woman appointed to the High Court of...

    Marie Byles

    It fell upon Marie Beuzeville Byles to be the first woman to be admitted as a legal practitioner in NSW. Byles...

    Mahla Pearlman

    Mahla Pearlman followed Anne Plotke on to the Law Society Council in 1976.   Pearlman became the Law Society of NSW...