Slater & Gordon

Name: SLATER AND GORDON 
Activity: Lawyers 
Date Range: 1965–1967 
Quantity: 400 archives boxes (c.50 metres) 
Description: Selected legal case files, 
Listed: Not listed 
Accession Number: 72 / 41 
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• Details

  Accession Number: 72/41

  Name: SLATER AND GORDON
  Sex:Group: Business, organisations

  Activity:Lawyers

  Location:Melbourne

  Historical Note: The law firm was established in 1924 by William Slater, a prominent Labor MP who was also Australia's Attorney-General. Hugh Gordon was Slater's brother-in-law, who joined the firm when its workload increased. The firm predominantly represented workers and trade unions. After Gordon's death on active service during WW11 and Slater's appointment as Australian ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1942, Ted Hill became the firm's manager, remaining with them until 1948, during which time he widely expanded the firm's industrial practice.

  Earliest Date: 1965
  Latest Date: 1967
  Access: Restricted
  Quantity: 400 archives boxes (c.50 metres)

  Description: Selected legal case files,

  Persons:

  Organisations:

  Places:Melbourne

  Subjects:Law

  Listed: Not listed
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Name: SLATER AND GORDON 
Activity: Lawyers 
Date Range: 1920s–1967 
Quantity: 114 metres 
Description: Legal files 40,000 - 44,296 Selected case files 
Listed: Not listed 
Accession Number: 73 / 31 
UM Number:

• Details

  Accession Number: 73/31

  Name: SLATER AND GORDON
  Sex:Group: Business, organisations

  Activity:Lawyers

  Location:Melbourne

  Historical Note: The law firm was established in 1924 by William Slater, a prominent Labor MP who was also Australia's Attorney-General. Hugh Gordon was Slater's brother-in-law, who joined the firm when its workload increased. The firm predominantly represented workers and trade unions. After Gordon's death on active service during WW11 and Slater's appointment as Australian ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1942, Ted Hill became the firm's manager, remaining with them until 1948, during which time he widely expanded the firm's industrial practice.

  Earliest Date: 1920
  Latest Date: 1967
  Access: Restricted
  Quantity: 114 metres

  Description: Legal files 40 000–44 296 Selected case files

  Persons:

  Organisations:

  Places:Victoria

  Subjects:Law
  Workers' compensation

  Listed: Not listed
  UM Number: