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Our commitment to our clients is to provide the highest quality service within the commercial environment of our instructions. We understand that clients want the deal done and we will ensure the transaction is facilitated and not hindered while at the same time fully protecting our client’s interests. Commercial decisions often have taxation and other legal implications and we have the expertise and skills to identify and properly deal with and advise on relevant taxation and legal considerations associated with your business decision or transaction. We provide objective and sensible advice with practical solutions tailored to each client’s individual needs. At Gells we pride ourselves in maintaining a traditional solicitor/client relationship built on trust, confidentiality and mutual respect. This relationship extends beyond the mere provision of legal services. We have a depth of experience to serve a wide spectrum of clients and issues and are intimate enough so that you as our client will receive individual and personal attention. You will feel important to us. You as our client enjoy the competitive advantage of knowing that no legal work of any kind is undertaken by unqualified personnel and that the expertise of the whole firm is available to each member of the firm carrying out your work. State of the art technology is integral to the firm’s practice, for example: data bases, electronic costing systems, on-line research facilities and on-line access to on line access to Government Agencies and other resources. Due to the use of our database systems, all firm members have access to the total recorded experience of the firm. What you can expect from us is personal service with a high level of professional competence and courtesy provided by professionals who understand your needs and will provide solutions to your problems. We do not plan to grow so large we lose the personal touch but see the need to keep the breadth of experience to give a complete service and to expand that breadth as the law constantly changes and expands. We recognise that such expansion is necessary to remain capable of providing the service our clients need to meet the demands of constant change. Established in 1965 we proudly service a wide variety of clients, corporate and individual – many of which have chosen to remain through generations. We have developed an in-house training program to ensure that all members are kept abreast of current developments, which affect the myriad industries in which our clients are involved. Firm Charter Gells is a quality firm having its core practice in Business law, Taxation & Superanuation, Insurance, Company Law as well as tradition areas of Property, Personal Injury & Family Law. We focus on what a client needs from a lawyer and go about delivering that need able to offer options and the right solution to a problem. We are distinguished by being able to offer quality and considered advice on the forefront of legal developments affecting our clients. We pride ourselves on our accessibility and ability to solve our clients’ legal problems in affecting their business and personal lives providing solutions in a commercial context. We look after our clients treating their success as part of our own goals. We use four particular phrases to capture the spirit of how we aim to benefit our clients by being different: We carry out the practice of law using the following guidelines: 1. We have a policy of returning calls and being accessible by direct line and with voicemail, mobile phone and e-mail. We deal with client problems quickly and if we are unable to deal with a matter on that basis we communicate to a client when we can expect to do so. 2. When dealing with a client’s problem we promptly and effectively deal with the issues and analyse it properly without ?on the run? advice and set the plan and the agenda for a case. 3. We are completely honest and forthright in our advice to clients even where the advice is unfavourable or unpalatable. Our advice is analytical, independent and completely objective. 4. We charge only the true cost of what a job has cost in time and accounts are detailed for client scrutiny. We are open and transparent in our costing of matters. 5. We are committed to constantly improving the service we provide to clients and the way we do business by seeking efficiency gains through the use of technology and employment of appropriate staff. 6. We are committed to our staff and seek to continually up-skill and improve their skills through post graduate training and tertiary education, practicable supervision and encouragement. This enables the directors and the staff to identify and advise on legal issues which affect the different industry groups for whom we act and to give better and more cost efficient service. Our main areas of Expertise The organisation has now, therefore built up the depth and breadth of experience to provide a complete service in :- Credit law, insurance law, property law, corporate law, revenue law and taxation, superannuation, insolvency law, motor dealership law, laws relating to bus and coach operations, franchising, industrial law, commercial litigation, family law, personal injury law, liquor licensing law, registered club law There has been developed a unique depth of experience in servicing large family owned businesses. This experience covers the implementation of agreements and the litigation arising in these fields. This involves dealing with the problems particularly faced by the high net worth individual. These problems involve that individual in those branches of the law extensively. Capital gains tax (GST) and other revenue law becomes involved in the decisions such individuals face day to day and shareholder agreements, superannuation, generational changes and estate planning become important in long term decision making. Over the decades we have built up the organisation to cover the field for these people together with specialist skills in the credit industry, the bus industry, motor dealership industry, franchise law, insurance industry in property development We provide services in the following areas:
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