"One of the barristers her Honour worked with as a solicitor at Clayton Utz was Michael Slattery QC, now Justice Slattery of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Mr Stuart Clark, president-elect of the Law Council of Australia, observed that a note from her Honour’s personnel file at Clayton Utz records Justice Slattery as describing her Honour as ‘brilliant’ and ‘always in control’."