Lawyer, Taussig Cherrie Fildes · Melbourne
Sophie Bijl-Brown is a lawyer at Taussig Cherrie Fildes. She was admitted in Victoria in December 2024 and joined the firm in January 2025, after working as a judges' associate at the District and Family Courts in New Zealand.
Her time in chambers exposed her to the full range of family law: parenting arrangements, child support, allegations of violence and abuse, property disputes involving estates, trusts and corporate structures, spousal maintenance and financial agreements across jurisdictions. Her firm notes the valuable insight it gave her into court etiquette and the rules of evidence. She also has experience in youth law, criminal law and private prosecutions.
She studied law and arts, with a philosophy major, at the University of Auckland.
From the firm’s published biography of Sophie Bijl-Brown (tcflawyers.com.au), checked 19 September 2026, restated in our words.
Taussig Cherrie Fildes is a specialist family law firm on Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, founded in 2000 by Debra Cherrie and the late Michael Taussig QC. In its 2026 edition Doyle’s Guide ranks the firm First Tier, its highest firm tier, in both its national list of family and divorce law firms (one of six firms) and its Melbourne list (one of five). It is the only firm in both first tiers that practises family law alone. Both named principals, Debra Cherrie and Paul Fildes, are ranked Preeminent in Melbourne.
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Team as listed on the firm’s website, checked 19 September 2026.
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