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Over the past 20 years we've written hundreds of articles about the legal industry. Here are a selection about individual firms. Whilst we obviously have not used all of their services, we have worked with many of them and can point out general tips for researching which firm to use and what questions to ask:Two Harcourt Buildings Review: So whilst The Direct Access scheme is a major, massive, and immensely helpful shake up to the legal system allowing members of the public to deal direct with their representation rather than paying a solicitor to be a go-between - there is still a long way to go. 2HB clear...
ABS Lawyers Ltd Review: If not, try searching for a more local law society such as at the county or city level. However you should notice the 'translated' note next to those. So finding feedback from previous clients about how true these statements about quality customer service are, should be ea...
Antony Hodari Solicitors Review: class="infoquote "Founded in Manchester in 1984, we have over 35 years experience of helping the public with their legal claims and have recovered well over £100 million."< div> Quite often on law firms sites you see unhelpful and sometimes quite tenuous founding ...
Argue & Co Legal Review: However it's easy to imagine getting lost in the numbers at a large firm as well. This splinter naming isn't nearly as prolific amongst other areas of law such as divorce or crime. A quick note on navigation. You will find it more likely for an actual solicitor to ...
Beers LLP Review: So how do Beers' solicitors fair in the public forums? class="infoquote "the whole team have been lovely and very helpful throughout our house purchase" "Efficient, straightforward and good value" "prompt friendly and reliable" "kept us updated throughou...
Bell Lax Solicitors Review: We've seen a solicitor with several five star reviews for their 'awesome food'. Funny article titles aside, they cover real issues. The English Welsh law society provides a wealth of user-side data including all trading names of a firm, all office locations, any languages ...
BLZ Solicitors Review: But you never know what they'll think of next. class="infoquote "BLZ Solicitors is a modern law firm that is committed to fighting our client's corner."< div> Over the past decade at least, pretty much every firm has added some variation of 'we are modern' to th...
Branch Austin McCormick LLP Review: No, really. In this Facebook Instagram age - people really do feel more of a connection with a firm if there are photos and descriptions of the staff. Another is for fraudsters to send out emails pretending to be their solicitor and stating that the bank details for the ho...
Bridge McFarland LLP Review: class="infoquote "Our solicitors are ... If you've already been through a dozen law firm websites today looking for a good match for legal help , you'll probably be frustrated by the similar sounding sales language and even similar looking images. There are man...
Brown and Co Solicitors Review: Our poll from a few years back indicated that only 9% of you trusted testimonials provided by companies on their website. Other variants such as www.brownandco.co.uk take you to completely different firms and you can't have ampersands in web addresses so a www.brown&co.co.uk...
QualitySolicitors Burton & Co Review: (Obviously, otherwise we wouldn't have added them to our network of searchable legal practices.) But being clear up front that we consider them in a positive light is important, because then we can point out that any bias has nothing to do with much of this article. The...
CEL Solicitors Review: Again, no firm is going to claim to be the alternative of any of those. For example one claiming CEL lawyers demanded £2500 from him to provide 'detective services'. So, claim absolutely verified. However all the searches we tried such as https: www.thisismone...
Cooks Solicitors Review: Most solicitors will blame the other side's solicitor for any issues that arise. 99.9999% of people involved in a property sale (obviously exaggerating for effect but essentially a truth) feel it should have gone faster and been easier. Not their own clients. We've been writ...
David Stinson & Co Review: It seems to be a unique name in the industry. Even if someone calls you claiming to be from the firm and you don't recognise them - don't be afraid to say you'll call them back on the official phone number. . class="infoquote "David Stinson & Co specialise in per...
DisrepairClaim.co.uk Review: (No pun intended.) class="infoquote "The compensation you can claim is ... Because we're trying to get people directly in touch with a legal professional which they can evaluate and choose themselves - claims management companies don't generally fit our mould. W...
DV Solicitors Review: However both www.deovolente.com and www.deovolente.co.uk are owned by other firms. Reviews for property firms are therefore usually much lower than those for firms covering any other type of matter. For example they have solicitor Dorothy Turner with a qualifying date ...
Dylan Nair Solicitors Ltd Review: class="infoquote "We take the time to get to know our clients, work in partnership with them and are always striving for the best results."< div> There is a glut of people willing to share their feelings about any company or product online. Legal issues are very...
Fair Result Ltd Review: This gives you our undivided attention."< div>. That's where we saw that the firm was pretty new. We did ask around our own office if anyone might want to get a divorce in order to test out this firm's claims. Once you have decided you want a divorce, the application and D...
Frazer Coogans Ltd Review: qualified as a Solicitor in 2020"< div> That's the two ends of the experience bookshelf from what we could see, making a range of five decades worth of experience - but alongside some fresh legs too. 'Leading' also sounds great but of itself doesn't actually provide an...
Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents Review: One thing to watch out for when going through reviews for conveyancing firms is to always read the actual review comments . As that information isn't readily available in Scotland (yet) we have to do a bit more digging. Hazel managed to keep my spirits up as well as u...
Hawkridge & Company Review: No unsubstantiated claims, just clear examples of their status showing good immersion in the industry as a whole. Because we spotted a few negative comments that were followed by Hawkridge & Co stating that person was not a client of theirs. They involve sometimes lengthy co...
Hill House Chambers Review: provide you with expert legal advice ... A solicitor's firm will have all staff working as if it's one big company together. class="infoquote "Barristers Mohsin Aslam was very professional too when he articulated case" "Spencer's friendly demeanour and flexibility e...
HooperHyde Review: Hooper Hyde state each lawyer has at least 10 years' experience. The only legal services we've seen consistent reviews on are conveyancing firms because people always have plenty to say about how their house sale purchase went. class="infoquote "HooperHyde is a trading...
Jacobs Law Solicitors Review: There are things we absolutely would consider make a firm "modern" and having an online booking form like Jacobs Law do is certainly one of them. Which also means having worked with thousands of professionals within that industry during that time. If you flick through the ...
JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd Review: These days with the internet people can instead search for the best representation for their particular issue from firms all over the country. that they are 'living in the past', 'unfriendly', or 'inexperience'). Again, a very rough example but to make a geniune point. One...
Khan Law Review: But the number of firms being clear about what that means is far fewer. Khan Solicitors is a different firm as well using www.khansolicitors.com (www.khansolicitors.co.uk is unowned). No win no fee only guarantees there are no costs if the case loses . Always make sure you'...
KRS Estate Planning Ltd Review: There are even options to resolve matters without using a solicitor at all such as Mediation in divorce proceedings. One last quote from the firm's site that is a good point to remember: class="infoquote "Choosing who to appoint is an important decision and best m...
Lefevres Law Review: Sadly in Scotland the Law Society website covering legal professionals is not as good as their English Welsh counterpart. A quick note on navigation too. That's a very positive sign and certainly backs up at least one of the claims we quoted earlier regarding the...
Mackenzie Jones Solicitor Review: If we do add a general law practice in an area though, we try to find one that looks the most 'solid'. That's because there isn't much else for them to say. In this example, there aren't really going to be any firms that say they are NOT going to fight in your corner - are t...
Mckie Legal Review: Normally we would have a mini-rant about 'protecting clients from scammers', but that's not really necessary here. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you'll usually see a statement like this one. But whether a solicitor charges a success fee or not shouldn't be the end-...
Michael Leighton Jones Review: There is a firm call 'MLJ Legal Ltd' based in Hull, but at the moment searches including MLJ acronyms also brought up the michaelleightonjones website. This tells you what each solicitor works on. Some even use identical images of people in suits smiling and shaking hands. H...
Milners Solicitors Review: Add to that people messing with things like using Milner's instead and we think it's a good idea to bookmark the correct site or using a search instead when coming back. How can you tell the difference though? class="infoquote "When you need legal expertise, you’ll...
MJV & Co Solicitors Ltd Review: The question of course is whether this can result in a firm being better when it comes to handling clients and cases or if it has no effect at all. That's well over 50 years between just the two of them. Make sure you're on the correct site and never discuss paymen...
My Law Matters Review: the one word capitalised and heavily exclamated 'AVOID!!' hysterics) - if there is a general complaint theme that can shed some light on any flaw's with the company in question, that can be very helpful. We've even seen a divorce client leave a one star rating on a criminal ...
OneLaw Chambers Review: So always make sure you're on the correct site and never discuss payments via email. . class="infoquote "ONELAW CHAMBERS tailors its legal advice to meet the needs and requirements of its clients to ensure clients receive cost effective legal solutions with optimum an...
Pacific Law Review: As we said, this is a new firm. Some are chargable, some aren't, some are really expensive. There is no 200 year old solicitor imparting guru-style advice at the long-established brand. Always check. Versus the other side proclaiming their distate for all things stuffy and...
Richmond Legal Ltd Review: It's also become more of a pain to organise. This is especially true for Personal Injury and Immigration cases. A quick note on navigation though as when we tried searching for information around the web about this firm, Google wasn't the most helpful. The informatio...
Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors Review: The age of the firm's brand name has absolutely no bearing on whether the actual solicitor assigned to your case has any experience at all. On this occasion there are two main solicitors: Michael MacDonald who qualified as a solicitor in 1993, and Thomas Reynolds who jo...
Simper Law Ltd Review: class="infoquote "Between them, our solicitors have around 50 years' experience in law, and are passionate about working with all types of clients, both personal and commercial."< div> Most law firms will make a claim about the amount of years experience within t...
Smith and Graham Solicitors Review: The first is the expertise of the staff, and more importantly - their experience. The other item in the original quote is about client happiness and the obvious place to check that out is the public forums such as https: www.google.com search?q=smith+and+graham+middl...
Springle & Co Solicitors Review: Apparently it seems to be much easier to https: www.lloydsbank.com help-guidance protecting-yourself-from-fraud invoice-scams.html#:~:text=Fraudsters%20can%20send%20scam%20emails,rush%20you%20to%20pay%20up." convince people to hand over their house deposit< a> to a frauds...
Stenfield Solicitors Review: However you will need to enter one of the office locations such as 'norwich' or 'london' to get the popup box with all the specific reviews, opening hours, etc. class="infoquote "Specialising in a wide range of practice areas including commercial litigation, company ...
Stowe Family Law Review: But more importantly there are details about the staff including their speciality areas of law and the number of years they've been practising. We always recommend speaking to someone at the firm before going ahead. So what are people saying about Stowe Family Law? ...
Rose Fendlen Law Review: Most people that end up on our site have usually already scrolled through a dozen or so law firm sites before getting here. None of the variants we tried such as www.rflaw.co.uk or www.lroselaw.com seemed to be owned by the firm. If a legal practice https: solicitors.lawso...
Summerfield Browne Solicitors Review: Sounds like the best of both worlds . When Covid hit many companies across all industries realised they can do the job just as easily from their own home office rather than going into a specific location.
On the subject of the site, the official address is www.summ...
Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd Review: Unlike restaurants, hairdressers, or local pubs - legal professional get negative reviews for the strangest things . We have over 200 firms in our database at the moment and only 22 of them will help with Legal Aid. So take it from us that it's statements like the above abo...
Taylor Price Solicitors Review: But that's exactly what happens all too frequently with lawyers. One reviewer states - "Lovely foods, friendly staff". knowing all the loopholes).
If you typically just look at star ratings when researching companies online, it's something you shouldn't do when it comes...
Thaxted Legal Ltd Review: It's not as if any firm will say they are NOT experienced, dedicated, and providing quality services. It provides alternative contact details, related firms, aka company names, and qualification details of every solicitor. There are also several other Ltd companies with Thax...
The Legal Practice Ltd Review: That's actually a much bigger deal than you might think. We therefore highly recommend that you bookmark the correct site if you plan on coming back. The majority will have a huge chunk of negative comments. So how do TLP fare on the independent comment forums?
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Trojan Solicitors Ltd Review: The honest truth, however, is that you could end up with a 1-year-qualified solicitor from a 200-year-old firm. The majority did so simply because they received an email that told them the bank details for their solicitor had changed. Luckily for potential clients in England...
ULA Solicitors Ltd Review: For any firm listed you'll be able to see alternate contact details, all office locations, cases handled, languages spoken, and more. Thankfully ULA Solicitors have gone with the traditional photo, work history, and contact details which is great and something we think eve...
WH Solicitors Review: Immigration is constantly changing, increasingly complicated, time limited, and not something you get quick second chances at. (And that's tough to say living in one of them!)
class="infoquote "We have in-depth knowledge of immigration and EU law with plenty of experi...
Woodstock Legal Services Review: In any industry there are obviously those firms that thrive on publicity and who like seeing their logo everywhere.
class="infoquote "You will find us approachable, straight-forward and responsive."< div>
Unfortunately there is often a lot of sales-pitchy language...
Stephanie Heijdra Review: As a client who needs legal advice or representation in court, this could save you money in legal fees."< div>
That's a snippet from the official site about direct access barristers which is what this piece will be discussing. As they do not work as a team that doesn't...
Youngs Solicitors Review: So it's essentially a collection of specialists within one office. However this is still a very confident move because linking through to third party sites for people to view comments about your firm has quite an element of risk. Third you have firms where each solicitor...
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