Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsLawyersHistoryThe prominent legal firm was established by Victorian-born lawyer and socialist Maurice Blackburn (1880-1944) in 1921. Blackburn was a Labor member of both the Victorian (1914-33) and Federal (1934-43) Parliaments. The firm has specialised in trade union and workers' compensation cases and has become the largest industrial law practice in Australia. In 1999 it merged with the Sydney firm of Peter Cashman to become Maurice Blackburn Cashman.
![[1972.0048] Papers of Alfred Tennyson Brodney and Maurice Blackburn & Co.](/img/placeholder.gif?1768172494 "[1972.0048] Papers of Alfred Tennyson Brodney and Maurice Blackburn & Co.")