Dr Peter Macmillan is the principal notary at Peter Macmillan & Associates, one of Australia's most in-demand Public Notary legal practices. He is also Head of The Macmillan School, which provides practical, human-centred training courses to law students transitioning from law school to legal practice. And as an internationally recognised cognitive scientist, he writes books and teaches on the development of legal expertise. -----A lawyer for over 30 years, Dr Macmillan has held various positions in governments and law firms in Australia and internationally, including:- Senior regulatory official with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and Assistant Director with the National Competition Council.- Competition Law specialist with two top-tier Australian law firms (Allens and Clayton Utz).- Senior Consultant and Government Policy Representative in Geneva (while with the Hong Kong Office of the Telecommunications Authority).- Head of Competition Law at Hong Kong's largest law firm (Johnson Stokes & Master).-----Dr Macmillan is the author of several books on the development of professional expertise, including:- Unlocking the Secrets of Legal Genius: Measuring Specialist Legal Expertise Through Think-Aloud Verbal Protocol Analysis (2015), - The KUJI® Handbook (2020), - Grit Just Got Real: Applying the Scientific Formula for Becoming a Grittier - and More Effective - Professional (2022), and - The 21 Secrets of Gritty Professionals (2022). He is also Series Editor of the Amazon #1 Bestseller, The Legal Intern Diaries: Becoming a Lawyer with Dr Peter Macmillan (2024).-----Dr Macmillan holds Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Tasmania and a Master of Laws degree from Melbourne University.After completing his PhD in cognitive science and law in 2015 (at the University of Queensland and Bond University), he founded Meisterline® Analytics, a London-based research lab that developed the world's first quantitative method for measuring legal expertise using the KUJI® Rating Scale.
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