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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: They're also very emotional and often deal with horrible acts against the most vulnerable. Both statements are true. We've often said that it's better to get a 20-year experienced lawyer in a 1-year old firm than to end up with a 1-year experienced lawyer at a 20-year ...
5 Essex Court Review: class="infoquote "One phrase crops up repeatedly when describing the work at civil law chambers 5 Essex Court ― 'high-profile'."< div> That's the opener of a review by https: www.legalcheek.com chamber 5-essex-court " Legal Cheek< a> which goes on to deta...
Aconveyancing Ltd Review: In Scotland, you'll see far less negative comments of that type due to the different laws preventing the majority of gazumping. Also, there is a huge issue of fake reviews where for every negative comment posted - suddenly several 5 star reviews (from people who have only ...
Aina Khan Law Ltd Review: Accident Claims Scotland or Serious Law. Aina Khan states that she is also Award Winning , but then has https: www.ainakhanlaw.com aina-khan-obe-awarded-by-the-world-peace-and-prosperity-foundation " a page dedicated< a> to explaining what the award was for. Aina Khan's ...
Allsop Durn Solicitors Review: A good mix of 'wiser heads' whilst still having some fresh blood in the mix. Is it a good thing? We think so. You're able to look up case ranges, any other offices, staff details and more. Other tld variants or hyphenated (e.g. One last hopefully self-explanatory snippet fr...
Apprise Legal Services Review: They are meant to filter out trademarked terms, but not all firms register a trademark - let alone takes the time to enforce it with search engines. Therefore it's perfectly understandable that the number of firms that specialise in handling more than just those template Wil...
APS Legal & Associates Review: For example, the APS Legal & Associates main website does have the usual testimonials page. As far as we're aware their aren't a lot of scams going where people try to get you to write a will leaving everything to a nigerian prince. Hopefully we'll get an article about it ou...
Avery Walters Solicitors Review: So how can you tell the jargon from the actual promises and the quality firms from the bad? Well, there are actually more tools available than you might think. You may also see other names such as Avery Walters Ellis Solicitors and Avery & Walters Ltd mentioned when lookin...
AWH Solicitors Review: Whilst most scammers tend to target conveyancing firms, you never know what's around the corner.. Peter King qualified in 1982, Samantha Harris in 1999, Fatima Musa in 2016, right up to Cathryn Davies in 2020. A large number don't take any at the end of the case either, opti...
Catteralls Solicitors Review: We're not a fan of is this idea of ancient establishment dates because it can so easily be misleading. We take pride in our commercially effective approach."< div>. But the reason we point out how easy it is to get mixed up is because this firm deal with Property Conveyancin...
DFA Law LLP Review: The site will also provide you with individual details of various staff members. So how do we know DFA Law have experience staff? Most legal professionals are signed up to a local Law Society. So be careful, and we even recommend never giving bank details to someone tha...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Review: So sure enough, we sought out a specialist to start recommending to people. It's the same as shampoos which say '90% of users would recommend us!' only to have 'out of 20 people we asked this morning' in small print on the back. However, they state a success rate of 87% an...
DV Solicitors Review: They have a range of articles clearly meant to help out people with the basics. You may get a one year qualified solicitor from a 200 year old firm. class="infoquote "Our top-notch legal services are not limited to UK residents, but we are also delivering superior leg...
Education Law Service Ltd Review: At the moment most scammers are https: www.eveningexpress.co.uk news business home-movers-warned-scammers-could-be-targeting-their-deposit-or-other-finances " targeting property solicitors and their clients< a> because of the huge house deposits they are so easily obtaini...
Fieldfisher LLP Review: Normally when a firm gets that big, they move into practically every area of law and push out smaller clients in favour of big corporate clients. as well as having changed from Field Fisher & Co to Field Fisher and then finally Fieldfisher. The majority are positive. ...
Frank Rogers Law Ltd Review: This is sometimes blatant marketing jargon and simply means they added up the experience of everyone in the practice. Frank Rogers is qualified to act within England & Wales. There is a Law Society website for each area. For example, 5 solicitors x 4 years experience each =...
GloverPriest Solicitors Review: The website is concise with everything in it's place. Thankfully, GloverPriest have not done that. our lawyers have a wealth of experience in dealing with legal matters from start to finish." < div> That's one of the biggest concerns for people and something that will ...
Hampson Hughes Solicitors Review: The official website is the one we link to www.hampsonhughes.com with www.hampsonhughes.co.uk redirecting you there. 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 re...
Howe + Co Solicitors Review: One of our staff worked in immigration (Liverpool) for about a year and confirms it can be a very emotionally strenous environment, and that's just for the workers. Howe & Co seem to have solicitors from every decade of their history including Martin Howe (qualified in 1983)...
R James Hutcheon Solicitors Review: '100% compensation' means that win or lose you have absolutely nothing to pay your solicitor. those phone calls you keep getting asking about car accidents you haven't even been in. We would only recommend using ones that allow reviewers to leave comments though. They all h...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Review: Ian Mallon are signed up with both the Northern Ireland Law Society and The Law Society of England & Wales. The goal of 1to1Legal is not to create a massive directory of law firms with as many crammed in as possible. Ian worked for a regional law firm in Dublin from 2002 unt...
Jarmans Solicitors Ltd Review: A 1 year old law firm might have a 30 year veteran on their team. for their efficient help and assistance in these transactions." • "Any time i needed advice ... all followed a similar schedule too. Most of the 'new' law firms opening up post-24 7-mobile-phone...
Khan Law Review: That can make them sound very different from the public reviews and they are of course only ever positive comments: class="infoquote "excellent at navigating me through my injury claim" "took care of all the legal hassle and fought hard to secure the best possibl...
Kudos Legal Ltd Review: At 1to1Legal we do our best to provide a good mix of firms for people to choose from when seeking a law firm. communicated well at each step of the claim" - "Excellent service. A 40-year-old law firm could assign you to a 1-year-experienced solicitor. The website www...
Lawcomm Solicitors Review: In most cases you can work with us directly by phone, email and our secure client portal or we are happy to meet with you in any of our locations or even at your home or place of work."< div> As we've mentioned before with other firms we've written about, there is a ve...
Levins Solicitors Review: We don't just gush about how wonderful they are with lots of exclamation marks. But they do have a section which we believe all firms should provide to allow people more of an insight into the people they...
Lindsays Solicitors Review: Lindsays deal with many cross border issues so have to deal with English law when it comes to things such as property sales. But I'm guessing most people that see articles with companies holding large cheques being handed to a charity rep - have a little cynicism in them too...
Aspire Licensing Review: There is a firm called Aspire Law but that's a totally different group with their own website. a close relationship with all our local responsible authorities ensures any issues or representations received towards our applications can often be resolved through mediation and ...
Linkilaw Solicitors Review:
class="infoquote "Founded by two brave women in the midst of the pandemic, we understand the challenges of starting and growing your business."< div>
It's not the most striking claim we've ever seen stated on a website. Never discuss your bank details with someone...
Alexander JLO Solicitors Review: If you head to third party review forums though, don't just look at average star ratings . The individual pages on each case type are not as in-depth as we've seen elsewhere, but free initial consultations are on offer (covered further down) so you can ask basic introduct...
Mason Bullock Solicitors Review: Mason Bullock are registered with The Law Society of England & Wales and about this firm you'll see Andrew Crisp's stated areas of expertise and that he ...
McEwan Fraser Legal Review: For all you know, the awards this firm have won are 'best logo design' or 'nice employer'. This therefore came across as a little gimmicky. It's certainly something to bear in mind when checking out alternatives.
class="infoquote "Open weekdays from 8am - Midnight and...
MGBe Legal Review: That in itself is a reliable bit of industry recommendation .
However, as this firm only deals with immigration and the site is https secure - we don't envisage any real problems with scammers. What about prior clients?
The legal industry is not the same as other...
MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP Review: So even though injury claim clients don't seem to be being targeted in that way, it's still probably a good idea to bookmark the correct site we link to above . We take time to listen to you and provide honest transparent advice, always."< div>
This opening line on the...
NV Legal Ltd Review: That can only have positive implications for the final outcome of your case.
If you check https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 555160 nv-legal-limited" the page for this firm< a> you'll see their two main solicitors, Nicholas Davis and Victoria Davis, qualifie...
OJ Solicitors Ltd Review: Many people believe they mean the same thing, but they don't. There are dozens including Yelp, Google, Facebook, Yell.com, Trustpilot, etc. We ran a poll last year and a whopping 81% of you said you didn't trust testimonials on company websites. This is something we've sai...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Review:
At the moment the majority of scams involving legal matters tend to https: www.bbc.co.uk news av uk-35253594" revolve around property deals where scammers< a> send new bank details to people via email pretending to be from their solicitor.
However there are some...
Penerley Lawyers Review: Never discuss bank details via email with anyone. Even today there are dozens of law firms that don't even have a website, let alone an online tracking system for people to check on their case progress. They naturally want to point out - that's not them. If they do open la...
Penn Chambers Solicitors Review: neither www.pennsolicitors.co.uk or www.penngroup.com are currently owned by the firm) it'd be a good idea to bookmark the correct site once you're on it if you plan to return.. Not all barristers are able to take instructions from members of the public.
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Pump Court Chambers Review: secretaries and other support staff."< div>
That brief but good description found https: en.wikipedia.org wiki Barristers_in_England_and_Wales" on Wikipedia< a> indicates that, much more than with a solicitor, you are working with an individual barrister within a gro...
RD Costings Review: Because RD Costings specialise in criminal injury matters, they are unlikely to be targets for scammers. It's not something most place high priority on getting. RD Costings came to our attention because they specialise in an area of law we've never seen any other firm do so...
Redwood Collections Ltd Review: One of the benefits of using a debt collection company such as Redwood over, say, a firm of solicitors - is usually savings in both time and cost .
class="infoquote "An effective approach to debt collection"< div>
The opening line on the firm's website does refle...
Reid Black Solicitors Review: Never discuss bank details or payments via email. This is a great move because as our poll last year showed, most people don't trust company created testimonial pages anyway. Reid Black clearly want to help people seek redress over such Military matters.
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Richmond Legal Ltd Review: Sadly the tradition of 9am-5pm Mon-Fri working hours for solicitors still holds true today for many firms in the UK. Also the majority of scams against clients of law firms right now tend to https: www.todayslegalcyberrisk.co.uk main-news solicitors-lose-45000-deposit-co...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister Review: In fact, across every site we checked we did not find a single negative comment about Robin's work . Not just for the legal industry either.
For any law office, a lack of public reviews should never be taken as a bad sign .
Also Robin does not handle any matters ...
The Search Bureau Review: Whilst the majority of articles we write are aimed at informing general consumers about legal practices or available resources to help them in their decisions - we do sometimes cover more general topics and firms that help law firms themselves. All other variants we tried ...
Serious Law LLP Review:
class="infoquote "These include your financial needs, mobility and rehabilitation considerations, specialist medical care, case management and emotional support."< div>
In our experience, a huge number of personal injury firms out there do not have the expertise ...
Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP Review: Whilst many firms will use the Blog News Article section to just write extra sales pitches thinly disguised as help - Simons Rodkin have put together some really in-depth help pieces that can give you a decent head start in understanding your case and what's needed. Simons ...
Stenfield Solicitors Review:
Of course even in these days of 'modern' legal setups offering online case tracking and many matters being resolved without the client even actually meeting with their solicitor face to face - there are still a huge number of people that prefer the idea of a larger fi...
Taborns Legal Business Review: They will also generally have different appeal. A warning about the growing concerns over the number of legal aid Barristers leaving the Bar. For example if you were seeking help with a tax matter, we may show you options of a regular high street solicitor, a direct access b...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd Review: This is quite justifiable in some circumstances such as for difficult cases including medical negligence, uninsured drivers, criminal injury claims and so on.
Immediate reaction to The Injury Solicitor may be that it looks like any other personal injury firm. But we als...
Thorpe Wilson Solicitors Review:
The thing to watch out for is firms stating a wide range of specialities across different areas of law such as Divorce, Bankruptcy, Commercial Property, Immigration, etc. stating to be a 'specialist' for such a long list of case types. However the list above is actuall...
Trust Inheritance Ltd Review: Certainly when we tried various search phrases several related companies showed up in the results including Inheritance Legal Services Ltd, Guardian Inheritance Ltd, The Inheritance Experts, and dozens of law firms using those words in the title of their Wills Probate sectio...
Bilkus & Boyle Review:
class="infoquote "Providing quality legal services since 1980"< div>
Considering so many firms are quoting histories as far back as the 1800s, this number may look almost new in comparison. By that we mean they handle conveyancing which is an area of law packed w...
The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc Review:
There has been a huge rise in clients of law firms being targeted by scammers. are indicative of the general feel. A bold move for sure. There are plenty of testimonials on the firm's website, but our poll a few years back indicated that people tend not to trust the ...
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