Build Your Dream Business on Your Terms
Get specialist commercial legal advice tailored to growing, women-led businesses.
For 10 years, women in business have trusted Her Lawyer with their most important business decisions
Building a business is one of the most powerful things a woman can do to create flexibility and freedom in her life. However, when the business structure and contracts you have in place today no longer fit with the business you are seeking to create tomorrow, it can cause problems that take time, money and energy to fix. Resources that most women in business can’t afford to spare.
Get it right the first time with the support of senior commercial lawyers who see the bigger picture.
Why You’ll Love Her Lawyer
Everything we do at Her Lawyer reflects our singular belief that when women have the right legal advice, they make better decisions and those decisions have ripple effects that impact her business, her personal life, her family and her community.
Strategy-First
Protect your long-term interests with the support of specialist lawyers who take the time to understand you, your life and your goals before making a single recommendation.
Specialist Business Lawyers
Ten years in, business law is still the only thing we do. That singular focus means we spot the risks before they become problems, and the opportunities before they become regrets.
By Women, For Women
For over a decade, we've worked exclusively with female founders, which means we understand not just the legal challenges of running a female-led busine
Success Made Simple
Make your legal protections and obligations easier to understand, plan, and budget for with simple packaged fees, easy-to-understand visual roadmaps, digital-first process and plain-English documentation.
Stronger, Together
Enjoy a genuine partnership, where you feel heard, cared for and understood, and which frees you up to focus on your growth whilst we focus on protecting your interests.
Direct Access to Senior Expertise
By deliberate choice, we work with fewer clients on larger engagements, rather than using a team of junior lawyers. It is how we give your business the depth of strategic thinking it deserves.
WHAT WE DO
Everything You Need to Start, Protect and Grow Your Small (or Not So Small!) Business
Work with a legal partner who will support you over the long-haul. We start every client relationship by taking a step back, looking at the big-picture and crafting a legal strategy and business infrastructure that will support your next stage of growth.
Business Foundations
Set up the right legal structure and protections for the business you are today, and the one you aspire to be tomorrow
Business Deals
Get easy-to-understand legal guidance throughout the negotiation, deal structure and implementation of a business sale or acquisition.
Funding Your Business
We know cashflow is queen. We help ensure business finances are in order with documented loans, registered securities and referrals to aligned advisors for things like third-party finance, tax and accounting.
Contracts
Create simple-to-follow, plain-English agreements written in your voice, designed with your branding and ready to drop into your own CRM.
Compliance
Understand and meet your legal obligations with advice that is practical, commercial and easy to follow, no matter where you are in Australia.
Funding Your Business
Your trade marks, copyright and confidential information are often your most valuable (and most overlooked) assets. We help you identify, protect and manage the IP that sits at the heart of your business.
Staff & Contractors
Grow your team with workplace policies and staff and contractor agreements designed specifically to meet the needs of your individual business.
Privacy, AI & Data
Create privacy policies, data handling practices and AI usage guidelines that protect your customers data and your reputation.
Leasing
Negotiate your commercial lease agreements with specialist support and secure a home for your business on your terms.
Clients Just Like You Love Working With Her Lawyer
WHO WE WORK WITH
Expert Legal Support for Ambitious Women in Business
We work best with women at a strategic inflection point in their business. Whether you're bringing on a partner, starting a new venture, growing your team or preparing to sell, we help ensure the legal infrastructure is right to support you to achieve your goals. We work with clients across a wide variety of industries, including allied health, professional services and creatives.
Meet the Women Supporting Your Success
Courtney Bowie
Founder and Principal
Courtney is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and single mum to two boys. She’s passionate about helping women achieve financial independence through business, because she’s seen first-hand how life-changing it can be.
After starting her career as a commercial litigator in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, followed by years working as a commercial lawyer, Courtney founded Her Lawyer to make specialist legal support more accessible to women in business. Her mission is to take the overwhelm out of commercial law and give women the knowledge and self-confidence to back themselves in business.
With almost 15 years of experience, a Bachelor of Laws, a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice and a Diploma of Leadership and Management, Courtney brings both the technical know-how and the lived experience to guide her clients on the most effective business infrastructure on which to build their dream businesses.
Her work supporting women in business was recognised in 2020 with the NSW Emerging Leader Award at the Telstra Business Women’s Awards, and in the same year she received Lawyers Weekly’s 30Under30 Wellness Advocate of the Year Award for her contributions to small practice, women in law and mental health in the profession. Courtney is a regular contributor to and collaborator with the Law Society of New South Wales, the Law Society Journal and Lawyers Weekly.
When she’s not championing women in business, you’ll find her chasing after her boys and enjoying life on the Central Coast.
Isabel Carnemolla
GAICD, Principal
Isabel is a co-owner and principal lawyer at Her Lawyer, where she’s worked with female small business owners as a commercial lawyer since 2020. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, she blends her commercial and legal acumen to help women protect and grow their dream businesses and build lives they love.
Isabel is passionate about accessible contract design, and has a particular skill for designing creative contracts and resources that make contracts easier and more enjoyable for small business owners to use.
She’s a practising member of the Law Society of New South Wales and has been admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. After completing a Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma of Legal Studies, Isabel went on to complete a Masters in Business Law and became a Graduate Fellow of the College of Law. She also holds a Bachelor of Business, majoring in marketing, management and entrepreneurship, giving her clients the benefit of a lawyer who can apply a genuinely commercial lens to their legal strategy.
Recognised for our advocacy and support of women in business
Three Steps to Legal Peace of Mind
Step 1
Book a Clarity Consultation
Meet with a senior partner to talk through your business, get their honest take, and find out exactly how we can help, before you commit.
Step 2
Develop Your Legal Strategy
We build a holistic view of your business then make expert recommendations to help you achieve your goals, brought to life in a visual stakeholder map and detailed implementation plan
Step 3
Build Your Dream Business
We implement every recommendation in your customised and pre-approved plan for a single, packaged fee, creating long-term security for your entire business ecosystem, and leaving you free to remain focused on growth.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will work directly with a partner, either Courtney or Isabel, from your first conversation through to the final sign-off. We are a small team by design, so every client gets the specialist attention they need.
Your accountant looks after the numbers, while we design the legal structure those numbers sit within, and the two are far more connected than most people realise. We work alongside your accountant, and can bring them into the same conversation, so that you receive aligned advice rather than two separate viewpoints.
A Clarity Consultation is an introductory phone or Zoom call where we get to know your business at a high level. During it, we’ll learn what you need, and suggest how we can best help. We’ll share general guidance where useful, but this call is designed to test whether we’re a good fit for one another, before you commit.
After the consultation, we provide a written strategy proposal with clear next steps
We specialise in women-led businesses, however we work with anyone who wants to be heard, understood to support women in business. Allies are very welcome here.
