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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:33Legal Ltd Review: class="infoquote "Visit our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and connect with us to keep up to date with the latest news."< div> We always cringe a little when we see statements like this, as solicitors and social media don't always go well together. Even Medical N...
5 Essex Court Review: You won't find any of the typical staff profiles here which is a welcome relief . There are many firms around the UK that have both solicitors and barristers or dually qualified staff on board. Hopefully as more and more people get wind of the option, we'll start seei...
Aconveyancing Ltd Review: class="infoquote "We’re transparent about timescales, keeping you updated if any complications arise. No matter which you use such as Google, Yelp, Yell.com, or Trustpilot - the majority of firms dealing with property sales will have a wealth of negative reviews. Take...
Aina Khan Law Ltd Review: It states that Aina Khan qualified as a solicitor back in 1991 , so that more than verifies her claim to having over 25+ years experience. 35+ countries covered."< div> Another thing we see alot is firms stating they are 'Award Winning' with no further reference ...
Allsop Durn Solicitors Review: class="infoquote "We try to listen and achieve everything we reasonably can for you. You're able to look up case ranges, any other offices, staff details and more. Maybe the 'Dearlove' part retired? Between that, possible misspellings and the .com though - we wou...
Apprise Legal Services Review: A quick note on navigation with a triple barrelled company name. That way you are more likely to find something that appeals to your specific needs and budget. On those we still found very positive comments: class="infoquote "Excellent fast and efficient service...
APS Legal & Associates Review: But still pay attention to the links you click and remember that email addresses can be faked quite easily. Of course, the positive reviews continue across the third party review sites such as Google, Yelp, Yellow Pages and TrustPilot: class="infoquote "I have received...
Aspire Licensing Review: Obviously, never discuss such payments via email or even with someone that calls you up. They also provide help with courses that will often be required in order to get certain licenses - if you don't have people already with those qualifications. class="infoquote "O...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Review: If you search for news articles on any company it's good idea to make sure to put "quotation marks" around the name of the firm otherwise you will get a lot of irrelvant pieces. We did so and there were dozens including an article where they https: www.lexology.com librar...
Avery Walters Solicitors Review: In our last article we unfortunately had to point out a firm that had more than a dozen 5 star reviews, all written within the same month, and all by people with only 1 review ever written (pause for huge eyebrow raise). Of course some of it is just common sense and a bit of...
AWH Solicitors Review: These are old names or names of firms they have merged with so should really no longer apply. If you check the https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk organisation people 594279 awh-legal-ltd?Solicitors=True" entries for AWH< a> you'll see a huge list of qualified staff. Ther...
Briffa Legal Ltd Review: However, no firm gets to dictate what we write in their review or make changes unless we've made a factual error. They may also deal with divorces, personal injury, and criminal law in the same day. The Briffa Blog on the other hand is written by various members of staff who...
CFG Law Review: It suddenly occurred to us that we already have a 'poster-firm' on our network for all the things we're trying to promote. Again, bias may come into play but I've been injured twice by negligence in the NHS and once had to grab the hand of a doctor who was about to use a dir...
DFA Law LLP Review: However the DFA Law news section has genuine articles intended to inform people about real matters. For larger life-changing matters, maybe not. The official site we link to above is www.dfalaw.co.uk which is https secure for you to safely submit your personal details on t...
Driscoll Kingston Review: At the time of writing this we've been working with Driscoll Kingston for a little under a year.
We are more thorough than you probably need to be as a potential client. But when you take the average it means the firm's highest rating is 3.2 out of 5 (Google). More th...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Review: Certainly, the cost of the fine and the increase in your insurance from speeding points may work out to be considerably less than the cost of defending yourself. Working with the law and the court system is the simplest and most effective way of resolving a matter. We're r...
Education Law Service Ltd Review: That's still much better of course than charging you full price just for an introductory discussion about whether they can even help you. Just a couple of fake emails and house buyers sellers end up handing over £millions every year to the fraudsters. Sometimes the ...
Fieldfisher LLP Review: They didn't provide any specifics other than to state something such as having been dealt with 'rudely'. But according to our poll last year, many members of the public also find them useful in helping judge the quality, experience and establishment of a firm when looking to...
Frank Rogers Law Ltd Review: It's something that gained prevalance after a number of celebrities (mostly premier league footballers) were breaking the law and getting away with it thanks to a lawyer nicknamed Mr Loophole by the press.
Also keep an eye out for whether a firm offers a free consulta...
GloverPriest Solicitors Review: Offer to completion was 12 weeks exactly" < div>
Those are just a few snippets from around the web. But neither it nor any others we checked such as hyphenated versions redirected us to the correct site. Whilst the individual names Glover and Priest may sound common enou...
Hampson Hughes Solicitors Review: Being updated even just to say 'we're still waiting to hear from X' , can help with peace of mind. The last firm we wrote an article on had a huge list of five star reviews all written within the past month by reviewers who had only ever written that one review. Whilst a so...
Helix Law Ltd Review: I had an urgent matter that I needed advise on and Phoebe was a great help. I spoke to Laura Albon who helped talk through my situation and offered some valuable thoughts."< div>
There are various ways in which firms obtain testimonials. Even on search engines you may f...
HJA Solicitors Review: Their local university even https: www.westminster.ac.uk news-and-events news 2014 london-law-firm-receives-career-development-centre-award" awarded them Employer of the Year< a>. But when we use the word 'big' to describe Hodge Jones & Allen LLP, it's their presence we'r...
Howe + Co Solicitors Review: Many of their websites even look the same with photos of people in smart suits smiling and pointing at a computer screen or shaking hands. And by tiny, we mean absolutely unreadable.
class="infoquote "Howe + Co Solicitors are a leading London law firm specialising in c...
R James Hutcheon Solicitors Review: It's unlikely to have any bearing on your individual injury and may mislead you into rejecting a perfectly good law firm simply because they estimated a far more reasonable number when asked. They don't. Just because there's a big speech about them being 'established in 1885...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Review: Just make sure to watch carefully at the website address and email reply names that pop up during your case. They provided details about work history, length of time working as a solicitor and current roles on top of having direct contact details. The goal of 1to1Legal is no...
IWC Probate & Will Services Review: Or worse, they just sell your case to a completely different firm. It's certainly very common for law firms to create different brands for promoting different case types or locations. (That's actually the first time we've seen a law firm mentioned on NetMums.) There are hu...
Jarmans Solicitors Ltd Review: It's almost as if they've all hired the same content writer. However at that time everyone else involved such as insurers, healthcare professionals, letting agents, etc. We expect this to be less than 5% of users though.
Just as a couple of examples: a founding member...
Joanna Connolly Solicitors Review: You will be able to purchase "one-off Pay As You Go (PAYG) legal services at any time with prices starting at just £250 for a specific, agreed legal service to be performed" by them according to the site. I recommend a phone call to confirm the ins and outs of that tho...
Kudos Legal Ltd Review: So how can you check the background of any firm to see how their claims stack up? The first point of call we would recommend is The Law Society website. Not just legal services.
class="infoquote "You can rest assured that your case will be in good hands and will be h...
Lawcomm Solicitors Review: But in context these need to balanced and compared against how other property handling firms are portrayed. (Yes, really.)
You can always check The Law Society's website for the skills and qualification dates of any firm and their solicitors. If a property sale delays o...
Leech & Co Review: You could get a 1-year experienced solicitor from a 30-year-old firm and a 30-year experience solicitor from a 1-year-old firm. In fact for most industries whether financial or farming, the 'News' or 'Blog' section of a company's website is usually just some thinly disguised...
Levins Solicitors Review: But they do have a section which we believe all firms should provide to allow people more of an insight into the people they will be dealing with. We're sad to say that even our own local law society (The...
Lindsays Solicitors Review: Most law firms are signed up to a national, county, or town law society organisation.
class="infoquote "We are proud to sponsor Eilish McColgan, one of the rising female track stars of Scottish and UK athletics"< div>
Firms will often do charity events raising a f...
Linkilaw Solicitors Review: We did find a few still hanging around:
class="infoquote "They took the time to understand how our business works and the quality of the documents is excellent."
"Great team and management. We've worked with and written about this firm before when they were orig...
Alexander JLO Solicitors Review: There are a few bits we want to highlight in case you missed them though:
class="infoquote "We are proud to be members of Resolution ..." < div>
Resolution is an organisation with thousands of legal professional members all dedicated to finding the best ways to ...
Mason Bullock Solicitors Review: To make sure you don't think we fast-tracked even just this one firm we'd like to share some of the things we saw.
However with Mason Bullock Solicitors we were actually very eager to get them on to the network from the start.
class="infoquote "...we’ll advise ...
McEwan Fraser Legal Review: The only common issue we've seen in the search stats is the mis-spelling of 'mckewan' rather than 'mcewan'. The Scottish and Irish versions, not so much.
As the firm deals with property matters, this raises the possibility of scams which are on the rise despite the htt...
MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP Review: They were not and that's something we absolutely do not do. So what resources are available to back up such claims? Certainly the firm has the usual testimonials on it's website:
class="infoquote "They dealt with my medical claim empatheticly and helped advise me ap...
NV Legal Ltd Review: It's quite common for firms to use marketing jargon to obscure their real experience levels. A very basic example, but hopefully illustrates that whether a firm offers 100% compensation or not should not be a dealbreaker. There are also Blog News style articles with a varyin...
OJ Solicitors Ltd Review: Sadly, founding dates can be merely marketing ploys. So having plenty of independent reviews to go through is always helpful. The fact they've even translated their website into those languages is also a plus. However we do try to make sure you have varied options in the t...
Penn Chambers Solicitors Review:
class="infoquote "Penn Chambers Solicitors offer comprehensive legal advice and representation at court."< div>
Another huge potential benefit of using this firm over some others is this ability to do both. Not all solicitors are qualified to actually represent th...
Pump Court Chambers Review: The official website for this chambers is www.pumpcourtchambers.com which we link to above with www.pumpcourtchambers.co.uk redirecting you there nicely. Statements like the one above are displayed on practically every legal firm's website. She really made me feel at ease" ...
RD Costings Review: This may sound like a reasonable fee at first. Whilst we are unable to change the past ... Assisting Victims of Violent Crimes, Domestic and Sexual Abuse."< div>
If you've already been through several law firm websites today, you'll probably have noticed that even perso...
MGBe Legal Review: After us praising The Law Society of England & Wales for having such a great site, we have noticed that they currently link to an outdated web address of www.gabriellabettigagroup.com which no longer takes you to a site about this firm. If you've visited a few dozen law fi...
Redwood Collections Ltd Review: This focuses our staff on achieving the result our clients desire. Our typical commission rate is 15% in most instances."< div>
Another very good incentive to use a debt agency such as these is their pay-on-results mentality. Luckily there are dozens to look over with...
Reid Black Solicitors Review: But for now, if you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 508489 reid-black-solicitors-limited" take a look at the page< a> for this firm on The Law Society of England & Wales' website you'll see contact details, areas of practice , links to staff information, quali...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister Review: With of course no mention of what the awards were for (it could have been Best Logo 2002) or what area they are considering the 'leading' firm of (it could be their own very small village). This is not always the case. The old 'Jack of all trades ...' maxim. If you https:...
SBW Law Ltd Review: Whilst there shouldn't be such issues with the case range SBW Law handle, you should always be in the habit of knowing exactly which site you are on and never discuss payment arrangements via email.
. Today's article centres around the firm SBW Law. The most popular being...
Serious Law LLP Review: Whilst scammers tend to https: www.theguardian.com money 2017 jan 14 lost-67000-conveyancing-scam-friday-afternoon-fraud-legal-sector-email-hacker" target law firms that handle property matters< a>, you never know what's around the corner so doing everything you can to en...
Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP Review: But why?
class="infoquote "We are known for our strength in litigation work, and the majority of our laywers are dispute resolution practitioners. Simons Rodkin have a whole page dedicated to discussing how their fees work with examples and finer details regarding e...
Taborns Legal Business Review: Taborns is therefore much more of a business legal solutions provider than just a case handler . We have several firms on the network that are brand new startups, consultants, or sole practitioners. Unlike most firms that use the News Blog area to simply write a bunch of ex...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd Review: If you're ever in doubt, the various Law Society databases are a great resource. So don't discuss bank details or payments via email, and if someone phones you up saying they are from the firm you are using feel free to hang up and call back on the official number you know a...
Thorpe Wilson Solicitors Review: However a poll we ran a couple of years ago indicated that most people don't trust company's own testimonials anyway. So context is key. For example, Asda do not 'specialise' in Cereal, Milk, Chocolate, Underwear, Toys and Bottled Water. Whilst the majority of scams at the m...
The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc Review: So that's noteable to us. The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc are signed up with The Law Society of England & Wales which is one of the better ones. Certainly if you see the same thing repeated a few times in negative comments for other firms, then that's something t...
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