Meet my Team!
Sarah Follent
Design and Creative Director | Co Creator | Legal Designer | Event Coordinator | AKA Queen of Many ‘Hats’
Sarah is the Design and Creative Director here at Happy Lawyer Happy Life where she has developed a specialised expertise and fondness for brand development, identity, strategy and digital design execution.
Sarah is delightful – a truly colourful, warm, compassionate presence at HLHL HQ!
Sarah currently works in a number of different capacities, relying on her skills in creativity and innovation as well as her experience in coordination and business to be as versatile and adaptable as possible.
With a Bachelor in Design (Interior), many years of experience in various design roles, co-ordinating a creative event space, as well as running her own business, Sarah has a multi-faceted and distinctive understanding of design and general business management across the board. Sarah particularly enjoys the interlacing that design and life experiences bring and how these create opportunities to evolve design into beautiful expression.
Sarah has recently started a Masters in Design Futures at RMIT Uni where she hopes to reaffirm and build on her knowledge, creativity and design techniques. By undertaking this masters program, Sarah aims to better identify and articulate the value and contributions that design brings to business, systems, societies and lives.
The legal industry is at a pivotal point with design thinking methodologies fast becoming the solution. People are seeking human centred and purpose-built design services. Sarah works within Brisbane Family Law Centre with specialist family lawyers to enable the legal team to communicate effectively, visually, and simply with their clients. This provides the client with a simpler understanding of their complex legal matters.
Sarah has loved being apart of the Happy Lawyer Happy Life community and is looking forward to more fun and great learnings together! Sarah is best contactable via email or on her mobile 0434 632 527.
Our Partners
Amelia Rees is our Chief Podcast guru! Amelia worked for many years in the Happy Lawyer Happy Life team but after some health issues she took over editing the Happy Lawyer Happy Life podcast. She fell in love with Podcasts! The process of bringing real stories to listeners and creating high quality audio became her passion. She now has her own Podcasting Business called Pretty Podcasts.
Amelia works alongside her talented husband Marshall and have been married since January 2014. They spend their down time with family and friends and spoiling their sausage dogs Bonnie and Dot.
Amelia brings a sense of warmth and support to the Happy Lawyer Happy Life team. She works alongside her husband Marshall (our resident photographer). They have been married since January 2014 and spend their down time with family, friends and spoiling their sausage dogs Bonnie and Dot.
Amelia has loved seeing the community of ‘happier lawyers’ grow over the years. She believes that all business’, and people, have a story to tell.
If you are interested in learning more about Podcasting you can access Amelia’s free ‘podcasting guide’ or drop her a line here.
Ben Taylor
Creative Director | Videographer | Media Producer |
Visual Messenger & Storyteller
Ben is one of the most sarcastic, dry humoured members of Clarissa’s creative entourage, and is more of a pain than a professional. However, he is quite good at producing high-quality video content- which is really the main reason Clarissa has worked with him for over 7 years now.
Ben has been working in video production and marketing for over 9 years and specialises in directing creative online content. He is super easy to talk to and personable- which helps disarm even the most anxious of us, who get nervous in front of the camera!
Ben loves what he does as it allows him to learn new things from vastly different industries on almost a daily basis, but mainly he loves meeting new people and making new friendships, and it’s these attributes that shine through in the content he produces.
Marshall Rees
Photographer
Marshall has worked for Clarissa for over 10 years! He started out in BFLC as the first ever receptionist and left (with a little push from Clarissa) to pursue his dreams of Photography. The cover of Happy Lawyer Happy Life was taken by Marsh and he also takes most of the beautiful and fun images you see across our social media and websites.
Marshall has the amazing ability to make us all feel at ease as well as making us giggle! He puts all his energy into capturing the perfect moment, whether it be a professional headshot or an image for Instagram.
Marshall Rees Photography is also available for Weddings, head shots, family photos, engagement shoots and event photography.