• To provide client orientated, efficient, quality legal services at a reasonable cost;
• To provide access to a team of accomplished and qualified professionals to assist in the resolution of your legal matters;
• To listen to you and develop a strategic plan to achieve your personal and commercial goals;
• To maintain a balanced fee structure that ensures your legal fees bear a sensible relationship to your case.

On 14 May 1996 Boulton Cleary & Kern attained Quality Assurance accreditation in respect to the standard applicable to the legal profession - AS/NZS ISO 9001:1994.

Audit of the firm's quality system was conducted by the Quality Assessment Unit of the Queensland Government. The quality system has been maintained and recently reviewed to ensure continuing compliance with the relevant quality standard.

Boulton Cleary & Kern has a long and proud history.

The firm commenced business in July 1932 at Denham Chambers under the name of FRANCIS J O'SULLIVAN & RUDDY. Mr James Francis Ruddy, a partner in the firm, came from Brisbane to conduct the Townsville Branch while Mr Francis J O'Sullivan continued to conduct the firm's business in Brisbane.

Frank O'Sullivan was an Irishman and an expert in the field of workers' compensation and visited Townsville on several occasions for workers' compensation cases.

Jim Ruddy remained in Townsville and carried on the business until 1941 when he returned to Brisbane because of pressure of work there. The business in Townsville was conducted by the late Morris L Williams, who was a partner in the firm of Casey & Williams, Solicitors of Ipswich, until the end of 1945 when Mr Mario Giudes purchased the business.

During the war years, 1939-1945, Morris Williams and Ian Roberts were the only active solicitors in Townsville and there were many stories about them and their clients. Morris Williams appeared for four American negro soldiers who were charged with rape of an American W.A.C., found guilty and sentenced to death. Morris Williams made representations to President Roosevelt who commuted the sentence of death to life imprisonment.

When Mario Giudes purchased the practice at the end of 1945, he moved to Giudes Chambers and continued business on his own behalf until 1962 when he took into partnership John Martin Nehmer. The firm then traded under the name of GIUDES & NEHMER.

Mr John Boulton joined the partnership in early 1966. Mr Boulton had been practising at the Bar for some years mainly in criminal law. The firm was then known as NEHMER & BOULTON.

In 1967 the firm moved to Sturt Street and occupied part of the first floor of a new commercial building owned by a firm, new to Townsville, known as Custom Credit Corporation.

The firm moved to 2-10 Walker Street, known as "NBS Chambers", on the first floor in 1969 and in that same year Don Cleary became a partner.

At the end of 1972 the firm changed its name to NEHMER BOULTON & CLEARY, which remained unchanged until March 1980 when the partnership assumed the name BOULTON CLEARY & KERN.

In 1975 Mr John Boulton was appointed a Notary Public which is an appointment by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr Boulton remained a valuable member of Boulton Cleary & Kern as a consultant until he passed away in 2003.