Laurier Lawyers - your lawyers for life.
Our practitioners have been providing legal services on the east coast of Australia for over 30 years.
While we are intent on maintaining old fashioned values of the past, we have the enthusiasm and energy needed to deliver high quality legal services within the framework of our fast moving modern world.
You need reliable and trust-worthy legal representatives to deliver up to date and accurate information about the law. We are always focused on giving the right advice and we ensure that our clients receive the best service at the best price.
We analyse what our clients tell us. We know that our clients want creative and cost-effective solutions. It’s what we deliver but with an overlay of good old fashioned service and care. Because we are local, and we are proud of that fact. We are accountable to our clients.
It is this warm and personable approach that makes Laurier Lawyers your obvious choice as your lawyers for life.
“Helena Mumford and her team have proved a valuable asset to me when navigating my way through the unchartered territories of a marriage break up, the sale of several properties and also a series of business difficulties. I found their advice to be sound and user friendly. Helena’s ability to assimilate substantial quantities of information in a short space of time proved cost effective and the whole team have always treated me with courtesy and compassion. I have already recommended them to friends and will continue to do so.”
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OUR APPROACH
We’re with you all the way through.
We aim to deliver you service excellence at every level, every time we do business. We do so with a warm and personable approach. For each of us navigating the uncertainties and complexities of the legal and court system can be daunting and frustrating. Our goal is to support and guide you carefully all the way through to achieve a successful outcome.
We are transparent in our dealings with you and fully accountable for our actions. The skills of our lawyers and the quality of legal advice given to you is paramount.
This ensures that we deliver you a great service.
OUR TEAM
Reliable, careful, personable
HELENA MUMFORD
PRINCIPAL LAWYER
Helena has provided legal services for in excess of 30 years primarily in the areas of Family Relationship Law, Wills & Estates and Business Law.
Whether dealing with complex property settlements and emotional parenting cases or acting in Testators Family Maintenance Applications and drafting challenging Wills, Helena’s warm but exacting approach will set your mind at rest as she is in your corner all the way through.
Helena has considerable litigation experience and regularly appears in the Federal Circuit Court and Family Court, Magistrates Court, Supreme Court and most recently in a building and construction dispute in the County Court of Victoria. Litigation is at times unavoidable, however Helena’s primary focus is to resolve matters outside of Court amicably and in a collaborative way. Her wealth and depth of experience and expertise assures cost-effective, swift and successful outcomes for her clients.
During her career Helena has represented organisations in honorary positions including QAFA and Lions and regularly provided advice through volunteer legal community services. For a number of years Helena appeared as duty lawyer in the local Magistrates Court. Helena obtained qualifications as an accredited Dispute Resolution Practitioner (Family Law), Licensed Real Estate Agent and has memberships with STEP, Family Law Practitioners Association, the Law Council of Australia and the Law Institute of Victoria.
ANDREW MUMFORD
SENIOR LAWYER
Andrew graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and a Diploma of Legal Practice from Queensland University of Technology in 1988 and has over 2 decades experience in the legal industry. He has been providing legal services in residential and commercial conveyancing, including off the plan contracts, property law, commercial leasing and retirement villages. Andrew has also acted for many clients in the buying and selling of business which often requires the transfer or assignment of leases and the review and drafting of associated commercial transactions and documents.
Ongoing legal education forms an essential day to day aspect of Andrew’s approach. He enjoys adapting to new demands and is always focused on giving the right advice. Andrew has a keen interest in politics and current affairs and the interplay of law in differing political climates.
Andrew’s creative talents are also diverse. An expert in the culinary skill of chocolate brownie baking (to which many clients can attest) in his spare time he can be found drawing, sculpting or whittling a piece of wood (Australian timbers of course). In 1990 Andrew was approached by the Queensland University of Technology and commissioned to create a bronze bust of the then Dean of the Law School, Professor Tom Cain. Andrew’s bronze can be viewed in the library area of the Queensland University of Technology Law School. Andrew has undertaken other commissions for sculpture.
OUR COST POLICY
We put our clients in control.
Laurier Lawyers provides full disclosure up front about the different stages of your matter and the likely costs involved. Regular interim accounts are sent with the next steps and likely estimated costs of those next steps explained.
We use case management techniques, detailed planning and defined legal products so that our clients are totally clear on what we will do, when and at what cost. To be better than our competition we need to consistently exceed our clients’ expectations. This means being easy to deal with and having accessible professionals who communicate effectively at all levels.
We believe that even the most complex, one-off piece of specialist work is capable of being planned and budgeted. Our contract with our clients means we are under an obligation to:
• keep the client up to date on costs
• compare how much has been spent against budget
• obtain the client’s agreement before exceeding the budget.
Ask us if we are able to provide a fixed fee for the job. Often we can.
We are also able to offer different funding solutions for you if funds aren’t immediately available to pay legal fees.