Law Council of Australia Convention 2009

By David Topp

The Burswood Convention Centre, Perth WA, was the venue for the latest instalment of the bi-annual Law Council of Australia convention.

For the first time ever the convention had a dedicated young lawyers’ stream, featuring seminar topics of young lawyer interest, a pre-convention dinner with the dedicated members of the WA Young Lawyers Committee and the perennial staple of young lawyering nationwide, the final of the National Golden Gavel 2009.
Young lawyers from Queensland were represented by your present writer (in his capacity as Queensland’s delegate to the Australian Young Lawyers Committee which timed its scheduled meeting to coincide with the convention), Liam Dollar of the Queensland Bar (in his capacity as the Bar Association of Queensland’s young bar delegate to the Australian Young Lawyers Committee) and dedicated QYL members Rahel Clarke and Angelica Monardez who self-funded their travel to and attendance at the convention.

Also our numbers were boosted for one of the days by local Counsel, Michael Hodge, who visited Perth on the Friday of the convention in his role as Queensland’s Golden Gavel competition winner and hence entrant in the national final.

Michael Hodge more than simply represented our state; he won!

Great work Hodgo!

Read the full article on the Convention here.