Our Partnership Invitation to You...

Clarissa Rayward

Hi, my name is Clarissa Rayward and thank you for your interest in partnering with us! 

On behalf of Happy Lawyer Happy Life, it gives me great pleasure to explore opportunities to collaborate with our event partners. Our Sponsorship Prospectus aims to allow you to choose how best to work with us in achieving our mutual goals of furthering knowledge to establish and grow legal businesses in a sustainable way for law firm owners.

The Retreat caters to law business owners in a range of business stages, we would like to specifically invite organisations that seek to associate with the legal profession and have a proclivity for driven and courageous rising business minds.

As a partner of The Retreat, you have the opportunity to present your products and services to our entire live audience and our ‘Retreat in a Box’ audience, enjoying exceptional exposure to key legal entrepreneurs within the profession.

Our aim is to partner with businesses who are interested in learning,
connection and sharing strategies for 'Doing Legal Business, Better!

Our Partnership Prospectus is now available for download.

The BIGGEST of thank yous to our incredible event partners!

Tinsel Partner

Lawganised is a boutique management consultancy that exclusively services the legal profession in Australia with the vision: “To change the lives of law firm Principals.”

As the trusted adviser to small-to-medium sized legal practices, Lawganised changes the lives of Principals by providing them clarity and certainty across their practices. Lawganised achieves this with a focus across the entire operations of their practice: their client engagement and matter lifecycle, their systems and processes, their cash flow, their practice risk management, and their people. This, in turn, gives Principals more freedom and a fresh new outlook on their firms and their lives.

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Coffee Cart Partners

LawUE provides high quality, ethical digital strategy and services, exclusively to lawyers and law firms. They specialise in website design & website refreshes, logos & branding, content marketing and SEO as well as Google Ads.

Their team, led by Mel Telecican has helped hundreds of boutique & multidisciplinary practices to make their mark in the digital landscape and rank alongside or higher than their more established or high-profile competitors in the market.

LawUE is ideal for lawyers and law firms who wish to elevate their position in even the most competitive of market conditions.

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Our Happy Lawyer Happy Life sister brand is the Brisbane Family Law Centre (or BFLC as we like to call ourselves). We are family lawyers who specialise in working with separating families in a way that keeps them away from the Courts and helps them to remain friends for the future. We are partnering with the Retreat this year because we love fun, learning and lawyers obviously. 

And also because we want to tell you about the cool and exciting things coming out of BFLC – Look out for the all new and revamped Brisbane Family Law Mediation Centre in 2025! (insert confetti cannon here!)

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Dinner Partners

One of Jenny Letts’ points of difference is that she offers direct access to the Expert, to listen and answer questions.

Jenny and her team understand that business valuations don’t take place everyday and that they are dealing with people’s major assets. Jenny believes that being impartial and honest is the best way to provide fair valuations that are explained simply and thoroughly to enable parties to save both time and money.

Jenny has a real passion for numbers and problem solving, which has seen her providing business valuations for over 25 years now, ranging from valuing hairdressers to engineers, to milk producers, to management rights and even customer databases and royalties.  

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Seven years ago, our founder Clarissa Rayward designed and launched an online community for like-mined legal professionals – The Club. What began as a knowledge-sharing venture has become so much more. Our Club members have contributed their extensive knowledge to the community, facilitating a change in the way that lawyers practice and show up in our businesses and lives. The Club has brought us everyone involved much joy, meaning and purpose in ‘Law Land!’

We believe it is one of the best assets you can have in your pocket for your law firm. It is an online membership for law firm leaders who intentionally want to make their own and other’s experience with the law the best it can be!

This year, the Club and friends will be your hosts for the Golden Girls themed dinner party! We do disco, party and dancing well- legal fun is the jam between our sponge cake!

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Session Partners

For over 15 years Elston Private Wealth has been helping people to plan their future and feel more confident about the financial decisions they’re making. Elston’s teams of advisers can provide guidance on investment, superannuation and even philanthropy. 

In 2012 Lynda McKie built a team with specialist skills in the family law space. Their focus is on education and understanding. They take the time to listen to the challenges and concerns. They are able to work collaboratively with lawyers to develop options that can be brought into the settlement process and empower people to negotiate with confidence.

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Pilot Partners are dedicated team of experienced accountants and business advisors here to support you. They live, breathe and are passionate about working together to reach a common goal.

As Queensland’s largest independent Chartered Accounting firm they proudly work with many different types of entities and individuals.

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Water Bottle Partner

Jacob Aldridge has been a long time supporter and speaker of The Retreat, and an even-longer time business coach supporting law firm business owners. Last year, Jacob and his beautiful business partner wife Harmony (also a lawyer and a legal coach) rebranded as Como – after Lake Como, maybe the one place in the world more gorgeous than the Gold Coast!
 
Jacob and Harmony are both presenting this year, so we’re delighted to have Como Coaching on board as our conference Water Bottle Sponsor for The Retreat 2024!
 
You can learn more about Como’s Legal Coaching services – with options for both individual and business coaching.

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CPD Partner

LawCPD is on a mission to empower the profession through learning throughout Australia.

LawCPD partner with legal minds and thought leaders – like our founder Clarissa – to provide a wide range of on-demand educational content on the most relevant legal topics. 

Pioneers in online legal CPD, our self-paced interactive courses have enabled thousands of lawyers to meet their annual requirements flexibly – from anywhere and on any device.

 

Choose from over 100+ online legal CPD options to keep up with current legal issues, explore new areas of the law, build new skills and cover all mandatory points.

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Gift Partner

Bailey Nelson (BN) was born from the desire to change the way we view eye care.

In 2012, Peter Winkle and Nick Perry took out a stall at Bondi Beach Markets offering quality eyewear frames at affordable prices.

By removing exorbitant price tags, blah service and compromised options (or joy blockers in our eyes), we’ve been able to bring the joy back to eye care and flip the tired ‘I HAVE TO’ situation into a joyful ‘I GET TO’ moment. BN are devoted to bringing joy to eye care so you can continue seeing life in the best possible way.

The BN design team in Sydney are working across the seasons creating incredible on-trend frames so you’ll always look a million bucks. Book a bulk billed eye test with one of BN’s friendly optometrist who will help you find the perfect frames for your face.

Look better with BN.

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Fashion Partner

Motto’s ethos is that fashion transcends age, size, and societal norms. Motto aim to provide a platform where every woman can express her unique beauty through fashion.

Motto Fashions is helmed by the mother/daughter powerhouse duo Faye and Lauren. Despite growth, Motto remain a brand with small-business values, empowering women through fashion.

Beyond style, Motto fosters a community where women connect, both online and in person, to embrace their authentic selves and break free from societal expectations.

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