This information is the authoritative electronic online version of the Law Society of New South Wales data on individual solicitors and legal practices where a holder of a current NSW Practising Certificate is employed. The data is sourced from the Law Society membership database, which is maintained from details supplied by members of the Law Society. The Law Society will enforce its legal rights and interests, such as copyright, in the directories data and pursue its rights at law against the misappropriation of data contained in these directories. The practice directory contains different categories of legal practice, such as private practice, corporate and government. Private practice lawyers practice law either in sole practice or in a partnership.
Corporate lawyers have their legal practices within incorporated companies.
It also includes other community, educational and representative categories of legal practice. The online members directory uses database technology developed by Galexia to provide fast access to stored data with low memory requirements. The Law Society of NSW online member database is built on a platform of Oracle and Sun software technologies, making extensive use of Java II Enterprise Edition architecture. Help with searching describes these different query options in detail. Querying the members database is a process balanced between the need to provide security for the data through the application of some rules , and placing as few restrictions as possible on the search interface.