Osborne Legal

Osborne Legal is a law firm that opened in 2015 and provides legal services to the Dubbo community and beyond. The firm has an Accredited Specialist in Family Law. Its team members live, work and raise families in the local community. Osborne Legal offers face-to-face appointments at its Dubbo office and can also conference by phone or online meetings.

It regularly appears in Courts all around the Central West, Western NSW and throughout NSW. Osborne Legal has partnered with JustFund to provide flexible funding solutions for family law legal fees. Its practice areas include Family Law, Criminal Law, Buying or Selling Property, Wills & Estate Planning, and Deceased Estate Administration.

Meticulous attention to detail combined with a personable approach is the theme that runs through the bulk of feedback about Osborne Legal. Named staff including Rachel and Chloe drew particular praise for their work finalising an estate, guiding the probate process and then managing the sale of a house, with the steps completed methodically so that complications caused no issues. Several accounts note that costs were explained clearly from the outset, and in one instance the final account came in under the original estimate. Responsiveness is another quality that recurs, covering replies sent outside ordinary office hours, alongside the value clients felt they received on residential conveyancing matters and the ease of dealing with the wider team.

A separate strand of comment describes less satisfactory experiences, including a perception during an amicable separation that fees mattered more than the personal circumstances involved, uncertainty about what was permitted at an appointment, a quoted figure that changed, and a view that documents were not fully explained before signing. Some matters were subsequently moved to another firm. The practice covers criminal, divorce, family and real estate files, and the most consistent satisfaction attaches to estate and conveyancing work.