1864
| | PD Phillips established a practice in Melbourne.
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1884
| | Phillips Nicholson established in New Zealand.
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1885
| | Smithers Warren Davenport Mant established in Sydney.
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1888
| | Ross & McCarthy established in Adelaide.
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1920s
| | Seymour Nulty established in Brisbane.
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1983
| | Lavan Solomon established in Perth.
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| 1985 | | Phillips Fox & Masel, (previously known as PD Phillips), Smithers Warren Davenport Mant and Lavan Solomon form an association and agree to practise as a federation under the name Phillips Fox.
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1990
| | Canberra office opens.
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1991
| | Seymour Nulty in Brisbane joins Phillips Fox.
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| 1992 | | Phillips Nicholson in New Zealand joins Phillips Fox, creating the first trans-Tasman law firm. Ross & McCarthy in Adelaide joins Phillips Fox.
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| 1993 | | Hanoi office opens and the firm is the first in the world to be granted a licence to practise in Vietnam.
Darvall McCutcheon merges with Phillips Fox in Melbourne. Darvall McCutcheon was itself the result of a merger in 1982 of Darvall & Hambleton and W B & O McCutcheon which had their origins in 1864 and 1888 respectively. |
1997
| | Ho Chi Minh City office opens in Vietnam.
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| 1999 | | Phillips Fox moves from being a federated group of offices to a fully integrated, corporately managed legal firm.
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2006
| | Phillips Fox enters into an exclusive alliance with DLA Piper, one of the largest legal services organisations in the world, and becomes a member of the global DLA Piper Group under the name DLA Phillips Fox.
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