IT’S JUST THE VIBE OF THE THING

BY JENNIFER RYDER, GENERAL MANAGER OF BEST WILSON BUCKLEY FAMILY LAW

Agreat movie character once distilled a good passage of legal precedent into that most simple and understandable of phrases that still resonates with Australians today.

Our team has recently worked to distil the essence of Best Wilson Buckley Family Law into such a turn of phrase. The result is the clearest sense of who we are to ourselves, to each other, to our clients, to our colleagues and as part of the legal fraternity and wider community.

As a small firm we have a big dream and that is to shift how family law is practised in such a way that we help separating parties to honour the time that they’ve had together and the family they’ve built, and we prioritise an optimal experience for the children involved. Rigid, black letter law, doesn’t do this naturally or well in our experience. We share a desire to see the “legal” better fit the personal experience of separating families.

To better define this we have determined what it is that drives us on this journey each and every day – the values we hold dear and share. It is our individual and collective desire to make this world a better place when we leave it than when we came into it, and working with separated families in a legal context is the means by which we do that.

Our values for ourselves, each other, our clients, our colleagues and our community are:

Nurture – to care for, support, protect and grow. Contribution – to craft a more meaningful outcome. Vision – to create a renewed sense of possibility for the future. Connection – to hear, understand and reach. Stability – to be consistent, structured and responsive.

There it is, our essence distilled. What has quickly become evident is that there is nothing soft about these values, in many ways they are responsible for our collective strength and will no doubt fuel our continuing strength in the years to come, and it is truly our vibe.