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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: class="infoquote "We are proud of a long tradition of integrity, humanity and collaboration, and a record of notable successes ..."< div> Again, if you have already flipped through many other firms looking for a good legal match for your case you'll have seen a ...


A City Law Firm Ltd Review: The most obvious way to check up on those claims is through the public review boards https: www.google.com search?q=a+city+law+firm&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926GB926&oq=A+City+Law+Firm&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i175i199i512j0i512j0i22i30l2j69i60l3.1224j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF...


Antony Hodari Solicitors Review: class="infoquote "We specialise in acting for tenants where their landlord has failed to repair their property or protecting deposits as the law requires."< div> Normally when that's the case (just like the medical negligence firm we reviewed yesterday) there is ...


Argue & Co Legal Review: You can read an article here where we cover the 'why' on that one. Normally there is just a few bits of basic inforation in some https: www.lawscot.org.uk find-a-solicitor ?Name=argue&Postcode=&type=firm" search results< a>. the person they spoke to simply seemed more int...


Backhouse Solicitors Review: You can get a 1-year newbie solicitor from a 200-year-old firm and a 40 year veteran lawyer from a 1-year-old law practice brand. Are they cherry picking? class="infoquote "extremely professional and always responded to the many queries I had" "extremely diligent...

WH Solicitors Review: That's not to dismiss larger firms with multiple specialists on board. class="infoquote "We're flexible with our fees with most cases – our fees are competitive and you will know in advance of what the fees will be."< div> This is mostly important to r...


Beers LLP Review: However that doesn't mean we ignore flaws or hide negative press when we find it. Unfortunately that needed to be said because there isn't much negative about Beers LLP for us to focus on. The official website we link to above is www.beersllp.com but www.beersllp.co.uk ...


Bell Lax Solicitors Review: Fortunately, Bell Lax https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 589519 bell-lax-limited" are registered with them< a>. Surely an enviable staff selection for any firm to have? It should hopefully mean wise, seasoned heads but with eager, fresh ideas bouncing around. A ...


BLZ Solicitors Review: If you want to check up on the size of a firm (if size matters to you) The Law Society website in your area will typically be able to provide that information. The firm's branding is BLZ Solicitors and they come up for searches for that name no problem. Not spending hours re...


Branch Austin McCormick LLP Review: The boxes that need to be ticked off for inclusion do mostly revolve around things that benefit the client . Being the names of founder partners, the name is quite unique despite 'branch' being a generic term related to people searching for office locations. But if a f...


Bridge McFarland LLP Review: The most common place people go to when looking up any firm is a search for reviews. It's not worth the risk. . However, in our last poll only 9% of you said you trusted any reviews on a company's own website. The negative ones all seemed to relate to delays in a house purc...


Brown and Co Solicitors Review: Plus dozens of review pages both monitored and unmonitored. To check the individual experience amongst law professionals there is a great resource on The Law Society of England & Wales' website. With each focusing on different areas of law those numbers do stand out to us...


Buchanan & Co Solicitors Review: In fact, they could probably do with updating their website content to reflect the extra years of experience gained since that statement was put on the site. Also while the firm's branding uses an ampersand, such characters https: uniregistry.com blog post the-symbols-of-b...


QualitySolicitors Burton & Co Review: Therefore they believe leaving the negative review anywhere is 'probably fine'. One of the best resources for finding out the specialties and experience of the individual solicitors within a firm is the local law societies. The QS site is https secure for submitting you...


CEL Solicitors Review: So whilst there are negative reviews about this firm too (and some with what sound like very valid complaints) - there are several comments that are just weird or look like they are about the wrong firm. But no-one's perfect. We therefore searched the various publicati...


Cooks Solicitors Review: class="infoquote "We have been in business in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire for over twenty-eight years"< div> This may not seem like an important sentence to most regular clients looking for a solicitor. The experience levels of the solicitor running your c...


David Stinson & Co Review: But the solicitor may take a cut of your compensation should you win. class="infoquote "We at David Stinson & Co strive to provide the best professional service to our clients, but aim to remain friendly and approachable at the same time."< div> The most common re...


DisrepairClaim.co.uk Review: 'No win, no fee' and '100% compensation' are two very different offers. But remember, the compensation in housing disrepair matters is an extra sum on top for having had to live with the issues and any health problems or injuries resulting from living in poor conditions....


Dylan Nair Solicitors Ltd Review: The main points people most want to see are typically a photo, case specialties, and relevant work history. 100% compensation means there will be no fees if your case wins OR loses. That's a decent offer by comparison. But just keep aware whether you've come back to the corr...


Fair Result Ltd Review: The only issue with being a new firm is the lack of consumer reviews for people to flick through yet. We simply try to offer a sort of business insider view. There were some testimonials on the company's own website: class="infoquote "the whole process was dealt ...


Frazer Coogans Ltd Review: Therefore any firm offering to help under Legal Aid gets a huge stack of brownie points from us. We've been reviewing law firms for over 20 years now. class="infoquote "Frazer Coogans Solicitors was originally established in Ayr in 1985."< div> If you've read an...


Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents Review: The worst comment in our opinion though, was a 3 star review for the company because the client believed the firm's offices were Hard to find" . For example in the case of the firm we're writing about today ( Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents ) we couldn't find a dedicate...


Goldsmith Bowers Solicitors Review: If you check out https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 475767 goldsmith-bowers-ltd" the page for any firm< a> they will typically show you any alternate company names used, a list of staff, areas of law practiced, and the qualification dates of solicitors there. This...


Guardian Law Review: We've seen a law practice praised for its 'tasty new menu' and a divorce specialist given a zero-star rating for refusing to handle someone's criminal law case. Most https: www.thesun.co.uk money 17881174 property-scam-fraud-our-house " target the clients of law firms tha...


Hawkridge & Company Review: class="infoquote "We are a specialist legal firm providing a range of services in the Medway town of Gillingham"< div> This quote from the firm's website is a selection of words that sound good but are almost meaningless to consumers because every single law firm'...


Hill House Chambers Review: Hill House Chambers have been recommended across our network for some time now so, as we do with many firms, we'd like to give a few insights into things that stood out to us about a firm, how that compares across the industry, and things you can do when searching for the ...


HooperHyde Review: Sometimes you don't need a solicitor. They are a specialist firm focusing on helping businesses, but also have a different 'feel' to them from firms we already worked with. Sadly, some businesses use marketing jargon to try and cover up when they don't have a good deal of ex...


Jacobs Law Solicitors Review: So having direct contact details for every lawyer at the firm listed on their site is a thankfully growing trend - but by no means common. The practice of claiming an "established in 1881" foundation is something common to such professional areas including law, accounting, a...


JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd Review: One of the best resources we always recommend people use when researching law offices and solicitors is any available local law society website. If you check out the page for JPS Walker, you'll see the longest serving solicitor (Michael Tattersall-Walker) qualified in ...


KRS Estate Planning Ltd Review: Thanks to creation of the internet, law firms are able to select the case types they are good at and then find clients from further afield - rather than having to cater to their local population. If you're a thorough background checker (and we're acutely aware th...


Lefevres Law Review: However that is a single area of law called Litigation. www.lefevres.co.uk brings up nothing and www.lefevres.com is an accountancy firm. That way when you search our database for help in your area we can show you everything such as a regular high street general practice sol...


Mackenzie Jones Solicitor Review: There aren't always plentiful reviews about companies that work in the legal industry, but you should never take a lack of reviews as meaning anything negative. That's because there isn't much else for them to say. Unlike companies that can talk endlessly about a product and...


Mckie Legal Review: It's just far less likely that someone will rush online to discuss how they feel about their criminal law case or messy divorce than it is for them to jump online and tell you about the restaurant they just ate at. We've covered many firms that proudly start off their websit...


Michael Leighton Jones Review: When you are flicking through law firm reviews remember that people are far less likely to share their feelings about their messy divorce than they are about the restaurant they just ate at. However it would still be fair to call this firm a group of 'specialists' as well....


Milners Solicitors Review: We just mean that when people think of a high-street, local solicitor firm - Milner's is exactly the type of setup they imagine . If they sound a little different or slightly more zealous than the reviews you typically see on third party boards such a Google, Trustpilot, Ye...


MJV & Co Solicitors Ltd Review: The branding is mostly 'MJV Solicitors' but the official site is www.mjvlaw.co.uk not www.mjvsolicitors.co.uk (which currently has no site on it). Such as: class="infoquote "We have around 50 years combined experience of acting for people and businesses"< div> T...


My Law Matters Review: Sometimes they operate using both the original and new trading names simultaneously. But there are no negative implications we know of for firms having different brandings. When it comes to trading names of companies this can involve a little more work. That's probably why o...


OneLaw Chambers Review: Personally, we think people leaving negative reviews for those reasons completely undermines the whole goal of review forums. 'one' and 'law') most search terms will bring up the firm at the top of results. Right now the largest scam by far plaguing the legal ind...


Pacific Law Review: However the risks are minimal as the majority of scams involved the legal industry https: www.falmouthpacket.co.uk news 18674736.cornwall-property-sale-fraudsters-scam-14-000-penryn " focus around the property market< a> and the huge deposits people end up accidentally pa...


Rose Fendlen Law Review: So whilst an individual solicitor saying they are a specialist in Family Law, Wills, Injuries, Property and Criminal Law doesn't make a whole lot of sense - on this occasion it does. So what are the third party forums https: www.google.com search?q=Rose+Fendlen+Law+wigan&r...


Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors Review: Normally in our information articles about firms we tend to dive off into a few tangents about general things to watch out for when researching which legal service provider is best for you. In fact the review on Yelp wasn't even about the correct firm, but the link to it sti...


Simper Law Ltd Review: Which makes it far more believable that a self-proclaimed "small firm" can have a decent level of expertise and experience in all of them. The most common error we spotted was people searching for 'simple law ltd' and related variants. class="infoquote "Between them...


Springle & Co Solicitors Review: Certainly just like planning a wedding there are several things you need to consider and get sorted which you can try and arrange individually. Estate Planning is what we would consider a fairly new term in the UK. This allows you some insight into whether a firm at least h...


Stowe Family Law Review: Some phrases may seem throwaway such as: class="infoquote "A tailored approach from a team that really understands family law."< div> Which again you've probably seen similarly worded statements on a lot of other firm's websites. The official site we link to abo...


Summerfield Browne Solicitors Review: Plus, errors in the web bar may take you to a totally different site. A mix of seasoned professional alongside fresh legs. However, since this firm handles business matters as well we gave them a little more weight as the company's own brand is stated behind their praise. ...


Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd Review: For example in Havant (near Portsmouth) they list a range of staff including Samantha Lee who qualified as a solicitor in 1995, Kelly Applegate in 2000, Tina Smith in 2013, right up to Kara Babbage who just joined the legal profession in 2021. So are Swain & Co Solicit...


Taylor Price Solicitors Review: knowing all the loopholes). Well give you some tips on how to tell them apart in a few paragraphs, but first: class="infoquote "each one of our clients' benefit from a wealth of experience as would be found in a leading city firm, without sacrificing the personal touch...


Thaxted Legal Ltd Review: But we think it's even more important for Immigration because the laws involved are constantly changing and can often involve the laws of various other countries as well. This doesn't mean you shouldn't still be very careful online though. This kind of offering demonstra...

Smith and Graham Solicitors Review: But hopefully from the examples and resources quoted in the article below, you'll see why they have been added to our network. If a firm has more than one office some sites like Google will only show reviews for each individual office names in the search. class="info...


Stephanie Heijdra Review: As part of a chambers you'll find every barrister works quite individually anyway though. You may see Stephanie listed on other related networks such as Clerksroom as well. Barristers are setup quite differently to regular law offices in that there typically aren't official ...


The Legal Practice Ltd Review: We therefore highly recommend that you bookmark the correct site if you plan on coming back. Obviously we think highly of the firm because we've added them to our database of searchable legal professionals. The most common to make people not want to use a law firm ...


Trojan Solicitors Ltd Review: Thanks to the creation of the internet and the resulting modern day marketing - such firms can reach the audience they WANT to serve rather than having to cater to the audience in their immediate locality. Which brings us neatly back to our original question about when is ...


ULA Solicitors Ltd Review: We didn't have to search through the small print to find out. class="infoquote "We are a team of senior solicitors who combine their knowledge and expertise in representing our clients on the most serious and complex of cases."< div> Most firms make claims about ...


Woodstock Legal Services Review: People have been handing tens of thousands of pounds in deposits to fraudsters simply on the basis of one official-looking email stating the bank details for payment have changed. Clearly we ended up with a positive impression of their law practice otherwise we would not h...


Youngs Solicitors Review: At the time we checked, they were clickable images rather than live counters - so were slightly off the actual average ratings on each. It's just that we try to focus on more general discussions about ways to check and things to watch for that can be applied to most law offi...


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