PG: Yes. And to the extent that work was done on that file in relation to that, it was done by you?

JG: That's right.

PG: And did you get advice from anyone else in the firm in relation to any of those matters?

JG: No, I didn't.

Here is a link to some of Julia Gillard's departure interview from Slater and Gordon.   She stated several times that she did the legal work for the AWU WRA Inc by herself.   More of the unredacted elements of the record of interview are here.

Ralph Blewitt states on oath that Bernard Murphy was present and working on the rules of the association with Gillard and Wilson.

Here is the acknowledgement page from biographer Jacqueline Kent's book "The Making of Julia Gillard".

Christine Wallace reviewed Kent's book in The Monthly - the review is here, an extract is below;

Jacqueline Kent’s The Making of Julia Gillard (Viking, 336pp; $32.95) ...... Kent’s account is the approved Julia Gillard story: Julia as Julia would have it told. It’s as close as Gillard wants us to get to her as Rudd’s prime ministership unfolds and, over time, plays out.

Kent thanks Gillard for “corrections of fact” in the acknowledgements. But the relentless smoothing away of any faint tensions, contradictions and frailties in Gillard’s personality makes for a curiously flat read. There is more to Gillard than Kent has let on or, perhaps, been let in on. It is not enough to ascribe the intense, visceral response Gillard elicits from voters, journalists and fellow political players simply to her “political celebrity”, and Kent leaves the task of unpacking the nuances of Gillard’s career outstanding.

And what did Kent's biography of Ms Gillard record after Ms Gillard's fact checking?

Julia Gillard's cabinet approved the appointment of Bernard Murphy as a Federal Court Judge in 2011.   This story from The Australian gives a little of the background.

Documents released under Freedom of Information to The Australian show that the public servants who helped manage the selection process, including background checks, did not know of the long-standing relationship between Bernard Murphy and Ms Gillard until it was raised in media reports in 2011, soon after the appointment was approved by cabinet.

Mr Murphy was Ms Gillard's manager in the industrial unit at Slater & Gordon lawyers until they both left the firm around the time of the Australian Workers Union "slush fund" affair in late 1995.

Mr Murphy had recruited Ms Gillard to her job as a solicitor at the firm in Melbourne.

The Prime Minister's spokesman cited cabinet confidentiality for refusing to comment about whether cabinet was told, or knew, of Ms Gillard's ties to Mr Murphy at its March 28, 2011 meeting.

The meeting of cabinet, chaired by Ms Gillard, rubber-stamped the appointment after a recommendation by Robert McClelland, the then attorney-general. Mr McClelland refused to comment when asked if Ms Gillard told him to recommend Mr Murphy instead of one of the other four candidates, all barristers, who had been short-listed for the job.

The documents released by the Attorney-General's Department this month confirm that the public servants closest to the selection process discovered the connections after receiving questions from journalists.

"We were not aware of PM connection until we saw it in press after appt was announced - not sure if advisory council knew," Claire McAlister, appointments administrator, Federal Courts branch, wrote in an email to a senior public servant on May 25, 2011.

Mr Murphy, who declined to comment about the circumstances of his appointment, became only the third solicitor on the Federal Court bench.

Ms Gillard's spokesman said: "We don't comment on cabinet proceedings. The appointment was made in accordance with the independent federal judicial appointments policy introduced in 2008."

Documents, many of which were heavily redacted prior to release under FOI, show that Mr Murphy was one of five candidates recommended by a panel led by former High Court chief justice Gerard Brennan.

In August last year, documents leaked to The Australian by Nick Styant-Browne, a former equity partner of Slater & Gordon, disclosed Ms Gillard's role in providing legal advice to help set up a fund for her then boyfriend, allegedly corrupt AWU boss Bruce Wilson. At the time Ms Gillard was supervised by Mr Murphy, who was also a solicitor for Mr Wilson.

One of the leaked documents, a draft statement by the firm's former senior partner Peter Gordon, states: "It is no secret and it has never been, that the firm's senior partner in 1995, Bernard Murphy, fell out with the rest of the Slater & Gordon partnership over the Cheryl Harris-Ian Smith case and subsequently the AWU/Bruce Wilson matters. That falling out was irreparable and we ultimately went our separate ways and but for a few professional interactions, have not interacted since."

The "Harris-Smith" case revolved around Mr Murphy's role in representing a woman who made damaging claims about a Victorian Liberal Party minister in the Jeff Kennett government, Ian Smith. Mr Kennett made strong criticism of Mr Murphy and the conduct of the firm, which had briefed newspaper journalists about the explosive claims. The woman's case soon started to unravel and the matter resolved with the law firm making a significant payment to Mr Smith.

Mr Murphy said on August 21 last year after the leaking of Mr Gordon's statement: "My resignation was not in any way motivated by any suggestion of wrongdoing on my part in relation to Slater & Gordon's representation of the AWU or Mr Bruce Wilson. I was not involved in any investigation at Slater & Gordon in relation to my conduct in respect of the AWU or Mr Wilson. If any allegation of wrongdoing was to be raised it would be completely unfounded."