Budd & Piper are celebrating their 80th year of practice and of and serving the people of the Gold Coast and Northern NSW area.

Our Senior Partner, Derek Budd, was last year acknowledged by the NSW & QLD Law Society on obtaining 50 years as a solicitor. This year marks his 51st year.

The present firm of Budd & Piper derives from the late Mr Frederick Knight Budd who was admitted to practice as a solicitor in NSW in the year 1927. Mr F.K. Budd was born at Dungay Creek near Murwillumbah and lived the whole of his life in the Tweed District. He first practiced in Murwillumbah, later opening a Branch Office in Tweed Heads and afterwards in Coolangatta. He continued in practice virtually until his passing in 1972. His son Derek Budd is now the firm's Senior Partner.

Mr Lawrence Bernard Piper, having migrated from the United Kingdom shortly after the Second World War was first of all employed in the firm later becoming a partner. His son Martin Piper became a Partner of the firm on the passing of Mr Lawrence Bernard Piper in 1988.