Geoffrey Buchanan McCurdy
1923 -
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Despite computers, floppy discs, fax machines and e-mail the conduct
of a legal practice is still a labour intensive business. It was
more so when Geoff McCurdy started work as an office boy at Price Higgins
and Speed in 1938. There were no telephones on desks but there was
one on the wall. It was his duty, as a 14 year old office boy, to
answer it. Fifty seven years later he was still working for the same
firm. Geoff McCurdy's account held in this collection gives a picture
of life as a law clerk. He was working in a period when ready co-operation
between legal offices was the way business was conducted and when legal
practices attracted clients by word of mouth reports of good service rather
than by coloured advertisements in newspaper and radio promotions.
Arrangement of material
The list below describes material held in the Geoffrey Buchanan McCurdy
archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Mccurd Hil/Gbm on the shelves in
the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront
campus. The material has been arranged in date order.
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