In The Community

Briese Lawyers supports the following foundations/organisations:

  • Emerge Youth Program
  • Drought Angels
  • Share the Dignity
  • White Balloon Day
  • Toowoomba Hospital Foundation
  • Pyjama Foundation
  • Buy a Bale
  • Animal Angels Rescue
  • Trash Ya Hair (Toowoomba Hospice Foundation)
  • Scripture Union
  • Teen Challenge
  • Adopt a Family (Salvation Army)
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Cancer Council
  • Stress Down Day (Lifeline)
  • Brave Hearts
  • MND Australia (Motor Neurone Disease
  • Leukaemia Foundation


FUNDRAISING WITH TOOWOOMBA REFEERRAL GROUP

Briese Lawyers is proud to be a part of Toowoomba Referral Group and all of the great community work this group does.  Toowoomba Referral Group recently held a Golf Day at the Middle Ridge Golf Course and raised a total of $28,000.00 that was split 50/50 between Blush Cancer Care & Young Veterans Toowoomba


TRG CHARITY GOLF DAY

On Friday 17 November 2023, we were privileged to be part of an incredible fundraiser with Toowoomba Referral Group as one of the Major Sponsors for their Charity Golf Day held at Toowoomba Golf Club raising funds for Blush Cancer Care Inc and Young Veterans Toowoomba.  Thank you to all the sponsors and players.  Raising just over $29,000.00 to be split between these 2 worthy charities!  Thank you to our friends for playing on our Teams today and thank you MartyArt DeSigns for our great hats!


PAY IT FORWARD

Have you ever experienced a RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS that made your day?

Thanks to Roland, WE HAVE!! 

Who is Roland you may ask?  Roland is a kind member of our community who generously offered his time, free of charge, to remove the unsightly graffiti from the side of our building. 

As they say “one good deed deserves another” so, we are PAYING IT FORWARD to Roland's charity of choice and have made a donation to FoodAssist Toowoomba ActsCare Group on his behalf.

Thank you Roland! Hopefully your act of kindness can now help many others doing it tough right now.

#InTheCommunity #payitforward  #CostOfLivingCrisis


2023 DOWNS & SOUTH WEST QLD LAW ASSOCIATION GALA

The Briese Lawyers team had a fabulous time at the 2023 Downs & South West Qld Law Association Gala.

Kym was awarded a Queensland Law Society pin for 25 years of dedication and loyalty to the Queensland legal profession & also made the top three finalists for Lawyer of the Year!


BREAST CANCER MORNING TEA

Thank you Corella Office and Darling Downs Bookkeeping Company for inviting us to attend your Pink Ribbon Morning Tea, raising funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Blush Cancer Care Inc. It was a great morning with great speakers, great people and amazing food.  Lucky us we even won a Prize!!


JEANS FOR GENES AUSTRALIA

Our amazing team raised funds and awareness for Jeans for Genes day!  Each member of our team generously donated items that were placed into a hamper that was raffled off today!  Katie O our Conveyancing Paralegal was our lucky winner!!  #loveourteam #jeansforgenes #brieselawyers


ARE YOU "DYING TO KNOW" WHAT DYING TO KNOW DAY IS ALL ABOUT?????

Dying to Know Day is an annual campaign that empowers all adult Australians to be strong self-advocates for their own personal planning when it comes to their future.

During August, adults at all stages of life are encouraged to take individual action, hold events, gatherings at home, and much more, all to improve their knowledge around choices for their end-of-life. Throughout the website you’ll find helpful guides,  toolkits and resources to support taking action to ‘get dead set’ and having conversations with the people most important to you about your unique choices and wishes for your end-of-life. #GetDeadSetMyWay.

If you would like to know more about Dying to Know Day hop over to their website https://www.dyingtoknowday.com/


HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED ORGAN DONATION?

DonateLife Week 23 July 2023 - 30 July 2023 plays a vital role in encouraging more Australians to register to be an organ or tissue donor. 

"We want all Australians to talk about organ and tissue donation. If you want to be a donor, make sure you tell your family and friends.

Registering is easy and only takes one minute. All you need is your phone, Medicare card and one minute to register.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, your medical history, your lifestyle, what country you’re from or how healthy you are — you can still register as an organ and tissue donor."  Australian Government Organ and Tissue Authority.

If you would like to know more information please hop on over to the DonateLife Week website,

https://www.donatelife.gov.au/all-about-donation


Our favourite day in the office!  Pyjama Day!

Proudly supporting #pyjamafoundation on #nationalpyjamaday, providing support and encouraging a love of literacy and learning for kids in foster care


PROUD SPONSORS OF THE TOOWOOMBA HOSPICE GALA DINNER

This team don’t just look amazing, they ARE amazing!! Had a wonderful night sponsoring and supporting our friends at Toowoomba Hospice as they celebrated 20 years of providing love, care and support to patients and their families, who are at the end of their life journey.

Such a wonderful cause to support


2023 HIP POCKET ENDURANCE CHALLENCE @ SOUTHBROOK

We were proud to be one of the sponsors of the Toowoomba Endurance Riders Association Inc, 2023 Hip Pocket Endurance Challenge @ Southbrook! 


INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY – 8 MARCH 2023 - EMBRACE EQUITY

We are proud to support IWD and our Client Services Team have out done themselves with this amazing display in our reception! Embracing the Women of Briese Lawyers.

The aim of the IWD 2023 #EmbraceEquity campaign is to get the world talking about why equal opportunities aren't enough. People start from different places, so true inclusion and belonging require equitable action.


"EVERY NEW DAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DELIGHT IN LIFE"

Cancer Council Daffodil Day is always a good excuse to raise awareness for this organisation and is a great way to brighten up our front reception for more than one day!


ANGELS RESCUE

 

After getting approval from Miss Lucy Loo (the apparent CEO of Angels Rescue), Kym Briese was able to present Carol Snell with our donation of $4,120 as voted for by the many supporters of Angels Rescue Toowoomba. 😊

Carol and her team do an amazing job in rescue, foster, rehoming, desexing, last litter and the Angels Wings program.

From the team at Briese Lawyers to the AR team, THANK YOU for the wonderful work that you do.

We love that there are three Angel babies in the Briese Lawyers Family!

 

GATHER & GRAZE 2021

 

Briese Lawyers proudly supported the Gather & Graze 2021 event which was held at The Dairy at Ravensbourne.  This event raised much needed funds for one of our favourite charities, Drought Angels 

 

WE HAVE A WINNER!!

 

EMERGE

Our Principal, Kym Briese, is a very proud supporter of Emerge.  Here is a little something Emerge posted on their Facebook page that we wanted to share:

"Today we said a special Thankyou to a special lady Kym Briese.

Kym has been a part of our village from our very early days, ordering catering, coffees, donating every month from her team at Briese Lawyers - Toowoomba and recently donating a whopping $4800 to help us continue our work with young people after the COVID impact.

There is simply no way we could do what we do without her.

Thanks for being in our corner Kym."

 

BIGGEST MORNING TEA

Again this year our team supported the Biggest Morning Tea.  Firstly a very special acknowledgement needs to be made to Carolyn Pohlner & Sonia Pocock from our client services team for spoiling us with the most beautiful & delicious morning tea for the Briese Lawyers team.  Together, we raised over $500.00 of much-needed funds for life-saving cancer research, support services and prevention programs. 

Did you know that 1 in 2 people in Australia will be diagnosed with cancer by the time they are 85.  But there is good news. Thanks to research into new treatments, the overall cancer survival rate has gone up from 49% in the 1980s to 69% today.   

If you want to have a look at our fundraising efforts, here is the link to our Fundraising page.

https://www.biggestmorningtea.com.au/fundraisers/soniabrieselawyers/sonia-briese-lawyers---morning-tea

 

 

Hello OPERATION: DATE LOAF!

As the world goes mad stripping our shelves of toilet paper, we are concerned that our vulnerable senior community will not be able to source supplies as they can’t trek all over town in search of the prized possession during their fortnightly shop with a carer. So what are we doing about it?
We’re taking date loaf to them!!!
Thanks to Cleaning Essentials On The Run, we have purchased a pallet of toilet paper and called upon the wonderful army of volunteers at Meals on Wheels St Stephens Toowoomba to distribute them for us!!! So now our beautiful seniors can get a three course meal and a side of Date Loaf 😉 to help them out.
#community It’s what we do!

 

WOOHOO! IT'S DELIVERY WEEK!

Thanks to some very generous sponsors from our Facebook page we have 175 cartons of Spring and Grove flavoured mineral waters donated. That’s 4,200 bottles heading to Stanthorpe this weekend!! Huge thanks to Spring and Grove for supplying your product at heavily discounted prices; and Granite Belt Water Relief who are doing a fabulous job with distribution.
And to our friends in and around Stanthorpe district, we hope you enjoy something a little bit special this Christmas season and hope Santa delivers drought breaking rain to Qld & NSW.

 

GIRL'S NIGHT IN GATSBY EVENT

Briese Lawyers was very proud to be a sponsor of the 2019 Toowoomba’s Largest Girls Night In Gatsby event.

 

 

TEEN CHALLENGE GALA DINNER & FUNDRAISER

Recently Kym Briese our principal and her husband Kent attended the Teen Challenge Gala Dinner & Fundraiser.
Restoring hope & rebuilding lives. Some very inspirational stories.

 

 

THE CAPTAIN'S RIDE

Recently Johnathon Althaus from our Conveyancing & Commercial Team attended The Captains Ride - Team McGrath's luncheon with Steve Waugh. Well done Team McGrath for raising over $25,000.00 on the day.

 

 

STANDING TALL & STANDING OUT IN LAW

Briese Lawyers received the 2019 Pineapple Award for Standing Tall & Standing Out in law, online and in the community. We are so proud to be recognised for our community work as it is so close to our heart and at the core of who we are at BL.
Thank you so much to Louise and the fabulous team at Pineapple Marketing & Promotions.

 

 

OUR CONVEYANCING TEAM DID IT!!

Our Team had 85 Contracts for the month of September, which means Briese Lawyers have sponsored 4 full truck loads (or 88,000 litres) of water to the Granite Belt Water Relief to help the Granite Belt with their water crisis. A very big thank you goes out to everyone who helped us reach this goal!

 

SUPPORTING JEANS FOR GENES DAY

Did you know 1 in 20 children are affected by a genetic defect or disease???   

Did you see us out and about?

 

Top 3 Family Lawyers in Toowoomba

We are proud to announce that we were rated top 3 family lawyers in Toowoomba for 2019 by Three Best Rated!

National Pyjama Day - 19 July 2019

On 19 July 2019 the Briese Lawyers team will wear our PJ's to work to show our support and raise funds for children in foster care.  If you would like more information or if your workplace would like to participate please visit www.nationalpyjamaday.com.

 

NAIDOC Week

 

Relay for Life 2019

 

Elder Abuse - Together, WE CAN STOP elder abuse

 

Emerge - Certificate of Appreciation

 

#It's in the Bag

Briese Lawyers are going to take this on as a community project in the lead up to Christmas. If any family or friends would like to make a donation/contribute in any way, that would be awesome - especially those of you that may have access to product samples that we could use. Thank you!

Its in the Bag

 

 

2016 Division Winner - Professional & Business: Legal Section

Big thanks to all our wonderful clients and referrers and of course to the amazing Briese Lawyers team who each contributed to our win in the Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards - Professional & Business: Legal division on Saturday night. Thanks also to Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce and the many sponsors who put together a fabulous "Breakfast at Tiffany's" event. 
Congratulations to all the other division winners!

Business awards

 

 

Proud sponsors of the River 949 - Marnie & Campo's 2017 breastfeeding calendar

http://www.river949.com.au/the-breakfast-show/59875-find-out-where-marnie-and-campos-breastfeeding-calendar-will-be-launched

 

 

September Challenge for Cerebral Palsy

Well, our Steptember challenge is over and our team managed 1,213,362 steps and donated $500 to assist those dealing with cerebral palsy. Big thanks to Kym, Donny, Sharyn and Jess for stepping up to the challenge.

September step challenge

 

Supporting our local RSPCA

A lovely "thank you" from the staff and animals at the RSPCA. We recently donated food; beds; toys and leads to help out our furry friends who are waiting to be adopted by special families.

RSPCA Letter

"Liability Limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation"