A firm built by people who decided the old model wasn't serving anyone.
Goodlet | Nelson Legal was founded on a simple objection: clients were paying senior rates and receiving junior work.
We built a firm small enough that the person who takes your first call is the person who runs your matter through to the end. There is no file transfer, no re-explaining the background, no learning curve billed back to you.
Between us we have four decades of practice across family law, estates, property and commercial work - the four areas where personal and business lives most often intersect. Clients frequently arrive for one and stay for another.
We bring broad experience across commercial litigation, government, healthcare, financial services, governance, compliance, privacy and consumer law. Having worked inside complex organisations, we understand how businesses operate and where legal issues can create cost or risk. We provide clear, practical advice that helps you prevent problems, save time and money, and make confident decisions.
We draw on a trusted network of experienced industry professionals, including specialists in data security, medical practice and veterans’ services to inform and continually improve our advice. Where a matter calls for specialist advocacy or additional expertise, we work with highly experienced barristers to ensure clients have the right support for their matter.
We act nationally. Much of our work is done by video and phone, which keeps costs down and means geography rarely decides who advises you.
Plain advice,
in writing
You get a written view of your position, the options and the likely cost of each, not a conversation you have to reconstruct later.
Settle where
settling is right
Litigation is a tool, not a default. We will tell you plainly when a fight is worth having and when it is not.
Answer
the phone
Calls and emails are returned within one business day. If your matter is urgent, say so and we will treat it that way.
Price
before work
Scope and fee are agreed before we start. Where a matter genuinely cannot be fixed-priced, we say why and set a ceiling.