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==Career== Kirby commenced his legal career as an [[articled clerk]] for Ramon Burke at the small Sydney firm M. A. Simon and Co., assisting with Compensation Commission cases for plaintiffs. The firm had two principals, Maurice Arthur Simon and Ramon Burke, later a judge of the [[Compensation Court of New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeches/1990s/vol43/1999/1588-LESSONS_AS_A_SOLICITOR_-_LAW_SOCIETY_JOURNAL.doc|first=Michael|last=Kirby|title=Lessons as a Solicitor|work=Law Society of New South Wales Journal|year=1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeches/2000s/vol60/2006/2140-UWA_BLACKSTONE_SOCIETY_10_PARABLES_NOV_2006.doc|title=Ten Parables for Freshly-Minted Lawyers|first=Michael|last=Kirby|publisher=The University of Western Australia Blackstone Law Society}}</ref> After graduation, he moved to Hickson, Lakeman and Holcombe (now Hicksons Lawyers) as a solicitor, practising in insurance litigation and property disputes. He was a partner of the firm from 1963 to 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kirby |first1=Michael |title=Law firms and justice in Australia |url=http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/kirbyj/kirbyj_award.htm |website=High Court of Australia |access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kirby |first1=Michael |title=Memories of Hicksons |url=http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/kirbyj/kirbyj_hicksons.htm |website=High Court of Australia |access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref> Kirby was admitted to the [[New South Wales Bar Association|New South Wales Bar]] in 1967.<ref name="HCA">{{cite web|url=http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/kirbyj/kirbyjbio.html|title=Biography: Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG|publisher=High Court of Australia}}</ref>
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