Brown Henderson Melbye
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.6 lawyers · Established 1985 · Capital Regional District
One of 163 law firms listed in Victoria, and one of 62 handling Family Law.
About Brown Henderson Melbye
Brown Henderson Melbye is a family law firm in Victoria, British Columbia, that traces its roots to 1985, when Trudi Brown and Jane Henderson joined with Deborah Acheson and Judith Kay to form Brown Acheson Henderson & Kay. Kay Melbye joined the partnership in 2001, and the firm became Brown Henderson. Melbye made partner in 2009, when the firm took its current name; Jane Henderson has since retired from the firm. It has practiced from its Oak Bay Village office since 2011.
The firm practices family law exclusively, handling divorce, separation, parenting arrangements, child and spousal support, and division of family property, along with elder care arrangements for family law clients. It offers mediation, arbitration, and collaborative law as alternatives to litigation, and several of its lawyers work as trained mediators or arbitrators. Founding partner Trudi Brown was among the first lawyers in Victoria to practice collaborative law and co-edits the annual reference British Columbia Family Law Practice with Justice Huddart.
In the community
- In 2015, four of the firm's lawyers volunteered legal advice at Access Pro Bono BC's advice-a-thon in Victoria's Centennial Square, part of a provincewide event that raised nearly $50,000 for pro bono legal services.
- The firm sponsored the Victoria Symphony's 2015 Symphony Splash, an outdoor concert in the Inner Harbour that raised about $45,000 for the orchestra.
- A lawyer at the firm volunteered with Habitat for Humanity Victoria's 100 Women 100 Days campaign in 2015, helping build a home for a local family.
- The firm entered a decorated bear in the Vancouver Island Children's Health Foundation's Bear Wear fundraiser in 2016.
- Kay Melbye has served on the boards of the BC Hear the Child Society and the Vancouver Island Children's Health Foundation, and as past president of the Victoria Bar Association.
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Wheelchair accessible
By appointmentLawyers 6
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- Law schools
- University of Victoria 1 of 6 lawyers
Where to find them
#217 – 2187 Oak Bay Ave. Victoria, B.C. V8R 1G1 · 250-595-2220
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