The Law Council of Australia, founded in 1933, is an association of law societies and bar associations from the states and territories of Australia, and the peak body representing the legal profession in Australia. The Law Council represents more than 65,000 lawyers across Australia[^[1]] and has its national base in Canberra.

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The Law Council was formed in 1933 to unite the various state legal associations to represent the profession at a national level and at an international level.^[2] Gordon Hughes, a former President of the Law Council, has written a book on the Law Council's history titled The Law Council of Australia – the People, the Profession and the Institutions.^[2]

List of presidents of the Law Council of Australia:^[3]