About Autonomy First Lawyers
Planning family futures
We start by first understanding your situation, resources and objectives. This leads us to identifying options for action and the talent needed to implement the options identified. This is normally the first phase of a resolution pathway. Our price guide for estate planning and administration services summarises the journey.
One Shot Letter Solution
Resolving legal matters with just one letter remains our track record in hundreds of legal matters. Tell us what happened and your circumstances. We’ll take over from there to prepare a letter for a fixed fee.
Workflow documents for productivity
Drafting a suite of employment contracts and related documents for a growing mortgage finance broker, including job descriptions and a policy manual.
Harvesting your intellectual property
Developing the intellectual property management system for a health sector consultancy and international training institute offering a safe and effective headache and migraine solution.
We advise individuals, families, organisations, entrepreneurs, start-ups and established businesses in many industries and sectors.
Autonomy First Pty Ltd, our law firm’s parent company, is an employer Partner of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners). STEP has over 100 branches worldwide.
STEP’s primary focus is on professional development and standards for practitioners advising on care and support for vulnerable clients, family businesses, family offices, wills, estates, wealth administration and conservation and succession planning. We work closely with STEP’s Employer Partner members who are part of the Autonomy First multidisciplinary Community of Practice.
Latest Blog Posts
Employment agreements made simple and useful
Our firm’s Employment Process Workflow is a rigorous framework for clients for their employment law needs. If the identified process and documents are implemented employment law complexities and problems are minimised or eliminated.
Never do business with family or friends? I did, I learned.
If you were asked by a friend or relative to become involved in a business start-up, each of you should invest in an independent professional to be a lead adviser. This exploration of the risks and rewards of business with family and friends charts a path to minimise disharmony and protect financial investments and the personal relationships.
When does informal, supported decision-making become undue influence?
Although the law treats the concepts of legal capacity and undue influence as separate entities, in so far as undue influence presupposes that the individual had capacity, in reality the two rarely operate in isolation.
Professionalism and differentiation – 7 reasons
Our assurance to you is to provide services which are tailored, innovative, strategic and practical. We’ll support you with excellence, entrepreneurship and integrity. You’ll lead in your document design, plain language communication and technology utilisation.
1. ADVICE, TRAINING AND TOOLS
We’ll understand your personal needs and business before we treat it in legal terms. In addition to advice and drafting documents, we provide training and support for your entrepreneurship, and extensive business decision support tools – checklists, guides, questionnaires, spreadsheets, slide decks and visualisations.
2. Private Client Services
Wealth Conservation, Administration and Succession. All Australians have the right to make decisions and be involved in the management of their affairs to the greatest extent possible having regard to their actual abilities.
We are here to help Australians age well. Ageing is the constant in our lives that inevitably brings change.
3. INNOVATION LEADERS
Your results will benefit from our market-leading expertise in integrating law with know-how from IT, human resources management, marketing, publishing and management consultancy. Ongoing and substantial investment in research keeps our advice, methodologies and documents up-to-date in form, content and methods for delivery.
4. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
To serve clients our team applies over 70 years experience in business law and strategic thinking for technology, business modelling, intellectual property and commercialisation. Our team have successfully completed thousands of transactions and reviewed, prepared or advised on no less than 5,000 contracts for organisations of all sizes.
5. STRATEGIC THINKING
Integrating your legal, business and innovation strategy is our forte. We’ll provide guidance to make your offerings and intellectual assets distinctive, novel or original. These are pre-requisites for you to successfully contract, manage and commercialise your intellectual property, technology and knowledge assets.
6. MARKET KNOWLEDGE
What market are you in, and what is its price structure, business models, technologies, risks, trends and customer expectations? What can be learned from competitors? We’ll share our market knowledge to answer these types of questions, to advise you and determine the format, layout, terms and conditions to achieve targeted outcomes.
7. LEGALTECH PIONEERS
Our people are pioneers in Australia in using information technology to reduce legal costs and turnaround time and in online legal publishing. This has guided many clients to apply cloud computing, ecommerce and online workflows into their businesses.
Upcoming Events
16
December
FREE Seminar for Occupational Therapists and Social Workers
NETWORKING & EDUCATION | This free morning tea for Occupational Therapists and Social Workers will focus on Capacity, Psychology and Crisis Management. There will be the opportunity to learn about the types of help that are available in this sector as well as to network, learn from peers and tour the new Arcadia Pittwater Private Hospital. Hosted by New Way to Stay.
24
February
NDIS Law Conference
This one-day Zoom conference will include a presentation by Autonomy First Lawyers Founder, Michael Perkins, on Empowered Decision Making. His presentation will connect Supported Decision Making and the National Decision Making Principles and will cover linking administrative and legal representation into a care plan. It will also cover estate administration, the emerging multi-disciplinary practice field.
26
March
Client Communications: Taking Instructions in a Digital World
The importance of getting clear and concise instructions from a client cannot be underestimated and doing so remotely is an added complexity that comes with some risk. This session explores measures to put in place and how to spot any warning flags, ensuring clients and practitioners are protected from interference or abuse. This webinar’s organiser is Television Education Network Pty Ltd. It is part of its professional skills development program for lawyers.
15
October
Decision Making Ability
POSTPONED | What do you do when your client’s decision making ability is in doubt? How professionals can de-risk their client interactions. In this one day online seminar, Dr Jane Lonie of Autonomy First Pty Ltd and Ros Ronning of Wilson Learning Worldwide will equip you with a structured approach to the practical evaluation of client decision making capacity.
“Noric Dilanchian is one of the most knowledgeable lawyers in Australia when you are looking at the impact of digital technology on intellectual property rights. He thinks deeply about new business models and how they can be implemented into business – he adds significant value in highly practical ways.” (20 June 2016)
“Noric Dilanchian is one of the most knowledgeable lawyers in Australia when you are looking at the impact of digital technology on intellectual property rights. He thinks deeply about new business models and how they can be implemented into business – he adds significant value in highly practical ways.” (20 June 2016)
Empowering families to age well | Helping safeguard your will and preferences
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