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B2B in Canberra - updated 14/07/08
Farrar Gesini and Dunn Family Lawyers was formed in 1995 with three partners, Ann Northcote and three support staff. Today the FGD Group has two companies, four specialty business units and 50 staff.
"Olivia Gesini, Denis Farrar and I seized on an opportunity in the mid ‘90s to build a boutique law-practice specialising in family law and we have never looked back,” FGD Group CEO Jim Dunn said. The opportunity presented itself when Ms Gesini and Mr Dunn were practising family law with a big local general law firm that wanted to go national – they got together with another local family law specialist Denis Farrar and set up their own local firm specialising in family law.
“The idea of specialising in family law hit the spot with the Canberra community. Because family law is complex, people need a specialist when they are separating or divorcing,” Mr Dunn said. The FGD Group currently comprises four business units – Farrar Gesini and Dunn Family Lawyers (traditional family law practice), Consensus Family Law (out of court solutions), Certus Law (estate planning and superannuation) and SuperSpliting (advises legal practitioners on how to split superannuation on family breakdowns)....MORE
Consensus: a new way to resolve family law disputes
Jim Dunn - Managing Director
Farrar Gesini & Dunn are setting up a new legal practice called Consensus Family Lawyers.
We have bought a team of people together at Consensus Family Lawyers who will use mediation, collaboration, facilitation and arbitration as the primary way to reach an outcome.
The establishment of Consensus is in response to our perception that there are at least two legitimate ways to resolve disputes which arise as a result of a couple separating and that conventional lawyers only address one of those ways.
The first is the traditional way which Farrar Gesini & Dunn will continue to practice.This involves identifying what problems need to be resolved, what are the relevant facts and identifying what the law would say is a fair solution...MORE
Dispute Resolution
Robert Routh
Separation is never fun. Even if it is what both parties want it creates stress and financial pressure. So when separation rears its ugly head what is the best path forward. How do you strike a solution that is cost effective, fair and as quick as possible?...MORE
Featured profile: Juliette Ford
B2B in Canberra
One of Juliette Ford’s goals in life is to have an interesting career wherever that leads her: Juliette is definitely well down the path of achieving that goal. Juliette grew up in Melbourne in a family that vigorously discussed politics over the dinner table and can remember from as young as six discussing the hot topic of the year - the dismissal of the Whitlam Government. “I suppose my interest in politics and national and international affairs came from my Dad’s side of the family".
Dad’s mother was widowed when he was nine during the Depression. The bank foreclosed on their house and my grandmother went into the food business. Her rationale
was that ‘No matter how bad things are people still need to eat’,” Juliette said.
Once Juliette finished her secondary schooling, she couldn’t wait to get to university.In 1985 Juliette commenced an Arts degree at Monash University and then transferred to Law. She completed her Law degree in 1990. Juliette says that despite people’s perceptions of what a feminist is, she is an active feminist.“It is important that women who have benefited from what feminism has achieved don’t disown the movement, but continue to redefine what feminism means for them and educate other people in relation to what ...MORE