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Click here to view Past Student Profiles. Click here to submit your own Briefs. Thian Hwa Teh (LLB ’91) Gained admission to practice in Malaysia and did so from 1991-2004 initially as a private practitioner (1991-1994), then as in-house counsel in a bank (1994-2001). He briefly resumed private practice (2002-2004) before spending a short stint as General Counsel of investment banking group in 2004. In 2005 he relocated to Melbourne and was admitted to practice in Victoria. In Melbourne, he was in private practice (2005-2006) before assuming role as in-house counsel in an insurance group. Marianne Rajic (LLM ’03) Having completed an LLM at the UNSW in corporate/financial law, Marianne joined Australian Securities and Investments Commission as a senior lawyer in Enforcement division. She was fortunate enough to work on a number of high profile corporate and insider trading cases before transferring to the Financial Services Authority in London. Marianne joined private practice at the beginning of 2006, first with the financial markets department at SJ Berwin LLP in London and recently with the offshore law firm of Conyers Dill & Pearman in the British Virgin Islands where she practices corporate and financial services law of the BVI. Lorand Bartels (LLB ’96) After UNSW, Lorand moved to Florence for PhD in law at the European University Institute, worked for four years as Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh, and is now a University Lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are mainly EU and WTO law, and he has worked for various governments in these areas, most recently in Africa. Melissa Parke (LLB ’92) is setting up the new UN Ethics Office in New York. She is part of a team advising UN staff on new policies and helping to assemble the interim office. The team will lay the groundwork for a permanent unit that will eventually serve some 29,000 personnel worldwide. Monica Attard (LLB ’02) Award winning journalist Monica Attard is the new host of ABC’s Media Watch program. Chris Chapman (BCom/LLB ’78) has been appointed head of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the country’s media watchdog. Previously, Chris was the Managing Director of the Seven Network and Chief Executive of Stadium Australia in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Babcock and Brown. Darren Gardner (BSc(Psych) (Hons)/LLB ’96) is US Managing Partner for Minter Ellison, one of the largest law firms in the Asia Pacific region. In addition to this, Darren was recently recognised as one of America’s leading lawyers in a special tribute by Forbes for his work with US companies doing business in Asia. James Morton (LLB ’03) has recently been appointed a Crown Prosecutor in Townsville, Queensland with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. James is one of a small number of Indigenous graduates practising as a barrister. Professor Paul Redmond described James as ‘a very impressive man who really took advantage of the Indigenous Students Pre-Law program to enter the LLB despite having 2 or 3 very young children. He has great determination and is really doing something with the degree’. Lukas Weinmann (LLM '03) came back to visit the Law School recently from Switzerland where he is about to start a new job with the Swiss banking Authority in Berne. Lukas worked for Bank Credit Suisse before coming to Australia, and after graduation returned home, working in private practice in Zurich while completing his Swiss bar exams. Lukas remembers his time at UNSW as a year full of adventure, learning and experience that he wouldn’t have missed for anything. Lukas particularly enjoyed the small classes at the Law School - a real difference to the 450-500 students he’d had in some of his classes in Switzerland. Donny Low (LLB '03) is undertaking further studies at Harvard Law School, having started an LLM in August 2005 with subjects in constitutional law and antitrust law. After leaving UNSW, Donny was the Associate to Justice Whitlam of the Federal Court and later took up a position with law firm Blake Dawson Waldron. After his studies, Donny intends to return to Australia to practice, perhaps after a few years of working overseas. Sam O’Leary (LLB '02) has been awarded the Banking and Financial Services Law Association Scholarship for 2005 and will use it to commence the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at Oxford University in September. The Scholarship, worth $40,000, is awarded for research essays on important issues of current banking and financial services law and practice which are relevant to Australia and/or New Zealand. Rachael Patterson (BSc/LLB '03) recently won an Earhart Fellowship to undertake an LLM at Columbia Law School beginning her studies in August this year. She has also been accepted into the Doctor of Philosophy program (legal philosophy) at Oxford University as a resident of University College. Rachael will defer commencing her doctorate until October 2006 to work as associate to Justice Heydon of the High Court.
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