Happy Lawyer Happy Life- Where colour, high-performance and the law co-exists.
We teach and support law firm owners on new ways to operate and inspire change in their businesses.
Welcome to the home of #confettilawyers
Where we facilitate a community for lawyers looking to make the most in and out of the law.
Here you will find a bunch of educational resources, products, workshops and training for lawyers and law firm owners.
Come join our signature membership and event:
Up(and)coming Events, Workshops and Services
The Retreat
2024
An immersive 3-day conference for boutique law firm leaders & teams.
The Island, Gold Coast
7 - 9 November 2024
Partnership
Opportunities
We would love the chance to share how we can work with you!
Have Clarissa Speak At Your Event
Think presenting, facilitating or teaching both nationwide and internationally!
In a forever- changing legal business world, relevant, client focused and practical legal knowledge is everything.
That’s why we offer lawyers and law firm owners new ways of learning and implementing modern business practices, fixed fee billing systems and designing a team culture and workplace that reflect your core values.
We live what we teach, so that we know you are learning the best strategies for what it takes to run a law firm and live a happy life at the same time.
Meet Our Founder, Clarissa Rayward
Founder, Creator, Business Owner, #dancemom, Artist, Accredited Specialist in Family Law, Collaborative Family Lawyer, Mediator, Author, Podcaster and Happiness Advocate in Law and in Life.
Contact Clarissa
Hi, my name is Clarissa Rayward and thank you for your interest in my business Happy Lawyer Happy Life. I guess you might want to know a little more about me? Well here goes! I am a wife, mum to two, Divorce Lawyer (don’t hold that against me!) and lover of chocolate, coffee and anything colourful! I love to write, dance and spend any free moment I have ‘crafting’ (or as I like to call it #bedazzling!)
By day I am an accredited specialist family lawyer and the Director of the Brisbane Family Law Centre, a multidisciplinary practice where my team of lawyers work alongside counsellors and financial planners to ensure that clients receive the holistic support they need through divorce.
I published my first book, Splitsville- How to separate, stay out of court and stay friends in 2015 and have since spent countless hours training family lawyers in Australia and around the world in better ways we can help our clients through divorce.
In my other life I run a business called ‘Happy Lawyer Happy Life’ helping lawyers around Australia to build legal businesses that have at the heart of them a happy life. I didn’t set out to be a happiness advocate in law but it seems that is just how it has all come together and in 2019 I was recognised as the 2019 Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards Wellness Advocate of the Year and the inaugural winner of the Minds Court Individual Wellness Advocate in Law and in 2022 was named the Agnes McWhinney Award recipient, an award that recognises a female lawyer that has forged new pathways for themselves, their peers and/or those that they serve through a commitment to excellence, equity, professionalism and service to the community.
These days I still work with families all around Australia helping them through divorce and separation and all the bits in between. But in my ‘free time’ I am working hard to change the way lawyers practise law, to reduce our overly high rates of anxiety, depression and psychological ill-health just in case one of my girls decides this crazy career might be for her too!
So there you go. Me in a few paragraphs!
