Finding the Right Help in the UK
Hill House Chambers Barristers: A solicitor's firm will have all staff working as if it's one big company together. provide you with expert legal advice ... That's still very useful information though and something people typicaly want to know yet can't find out when it comes to barristers. On some occas...
Stowe Family Law Solicitors: We always say that experience isn't everything, but a good mix of seasoned staff alongside new youthful enthusiasm can't be a bad thing in this industry. It is important you are comfortable with your solicitor; you feel they understand your legal needs and, just as importa...
LRose Law Ltd: It seems that communication is good and there is definitely some feedback about Rose Fendlen's goal of displaying geniune compassion for their clients. class="infoquote "your case will be handled diligently, sensitively, and with the care and compassion it deserves"...
Bellax Solicitors: That's usually how a firm with a wide case range can still technically call themselves a 'specialist'. Typically the 'Blog' or 'News' section of a law firm's website is just another selection of articles saying how great the firm is or a single filler article showing that ...
JPS Walker Solicitors: Only a few decades ago people were pretty much restricted to using their local high street solicitor for everything from Divorce, to Injury Claims, Will Making, and even selling their House. This is often referred to as a 'conditional fee' arrangement and will typicall...
The Legal Practice Solicitors: Today's article uses a firm actually called 'The Legal Practice' which is based in Wembley Park, Greater London. They typically provide any alternate trading names, all office locations, languages spoken, case types handled, and most importantly - the qualification dates and...
Young & Co Solicitors: The situation is almost as bad as trying to find and NHS dentist in this country. That's because practically every house purchase sale in England and Wales takes longer and is more complicated than the buyer seller wants. Of course, as they have been added to our database of...
Lefevres Scotland Ltd: However that is a single area of law called Litigation. That can make it hard to distinguish the parts that stand out or things that might be uniquely good about a certain firm . However they claim decades of experience. Minimal strain on your time and your money.
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David Stinson & Co Solicitors:
On this occasion it seems that both are true because certainly the brand name is based on the titular solicitor working at the firm who has decades of experience. The only exception to this would really be a medical negligence case against the NHS. A lawyer who is expe...
Cook's Solicitors: She is in charge of our Conveyancing department. It can therefore be a good idea to bookmark the site or use a search function instead just in case. But it stands out to us . It also means you've got the best of both worlds - i.e. Unlike other services such as hairdresser...
Swain and Co Solicitors: They have their own https: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk company OC348725 officers" companies house registration< a> page and they are registered separately with their https: hampshirelawsociety.co.uk services swain-and-co-solicitors " local law so...
Fentimans My Law Matters: (No, really.)
Whilst there is a negative comment about this firm on https: www.google.com search?q=my+law+matters&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926GB926&oq=My+Law+Matters&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j46i175i199i512l2j0i512j46i175i199i512j0i512j69i60.780j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x...
Frazer Coogans Solicitors:
A quick note on navigation. We've said it before but it's worth saying again - in our opinion 'established in ...' dates absolutely do not matter.
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If you've read an...
Burton & Co Quality Solicitors: The QS site is https secure for submitting your personal details via the contact forms.
. It mainly discusses how a branding exercise can end up with any perfectly decent firm looking as though they are far less.
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One Law Solicitors & Barristers:
Right now the largest scam by far plaguing the legal industry is house deposit fraud.
OneLaw certainly has at least one other independent body backing up their claims as well, being https: www.legal500.com firms 232573-onelaw-chambers 232407-london-england " ...
Beers Solicitors LLP: 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...
Disrepair Claims UK:
We've also detailed in other articles just how many high street solicitor firms also take a 25% cut of all compensation settlements. They will put out spammy posts in groups offering cash or supermarket vouchers if you refer a friend for a claim.
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Simper Law: For many years now https: www.lawgazette.co.uk news conveyancing-fraud-gang-jailed-for-diverting-deposit-monies 5103305.article" scammers have targeted such clients with emails< a> telling them the bank details for their house deposit have changed. However the case range ...
RM Solicitors: So take it from us, the majority of those 200-year-plus establishment claims are tenuous at best and often just plain misleading. Depending on the type of case you may also be able to receive 100% of your compensation as well. Yes, if the firm is registered with a law societ...
Ullah Law Associates: ULA list positive quotes from peers on their site, which is something we would consider to be much better than customer testimonials. The branding is quite unique and the various alternate searches we tried such as 'ula lawyers', 'ula law firm', etc. The main concept that ...
Taylor Price Legal Ltd: Legal professionals are treated very differently than services such as restaurants or hairdressers. It's not the age of the firm that's important, but the experience levels of the staff. For example most firms will also claim a certain amount of experience, although not alw...
Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors: We've seen people leave negative reviews for a Criminal Law firm refusing to take a Personal Injury case. 'living in the past', 'unfriendly', and 'inefficient'). MLJ Solicitors are registered with The Law Society of England & Wales which is great because they are the best o...
Milners Law LLP: It's something certainly Personal Injury law firm will offer because the majority run cases on no win, no fee anyway.
The best way we recommend to research any legal service provider is through their local law society website if possible. After more than a week of revie...
KRS Wills & Probate: There's obviously a massive range of variants people could attempt such as www.krs.co.uk or www.krsestateplanning.co.uk so we would recommend bookmarking the site just to be sure. As the firm we're talking about here deals exclusively in Estate Planning matters , this isn...
Branch Austin McCormick Solicitors:
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Trojan Solicitors: These days the high-street-solicitor is not the only option available to people to resolve certain issues. So when you see very few or even zero reviews for a law practice - that's not a negative sign. Indeed as you can probably tell from our article - we're quite impressed...
Cheshire Estates and Legal Ltd: That's something we see a lot of when firms claim to be 'award-winning' too and it makes us suspicious. There were a few things that we thought crossed the line in trying to be modern though, such as describing their staff as "a pretty cool gang" and stating their Liverpoo...
Fultons Estate Agents: Don't just flick through star ratings. They then tell the buyer that the house deposit needs to be paid into a different bank account. They can also arrange to meet you in their sister firm's Gildeas' offices in either Glasgow or Edinburgh city centres if that's better..
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Hooper Hyde Solicitors:
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On the law society's website you'll be able to see a great deal of information about their registered firms and professionals. The Law Society of England & Wales has the best user-side o...
Antony Hodari Legal Services: Just watch out for ads using keyword matching to display. That's because law firms are one of the few service providers where the losing side often comes online to criticise the firm that beat them. Antony Hodari Solicitors are a very niche firm covering just one specific ...
Fair Result Divorce:
class="infoquote "We start at the end point. In other words if you want a fight and to make each other suffer as much as possible on the way out of a marraige - they can't help you. Once you have decided you want a divorce, the application and Decree Nisi itself is ...
Dylan Nair Ltd Solicitors: So when Dylan Nair make a public statement on their site like this, it's not something to be glossed over . Just remember that 'no win, no fee' and '100% compensation' do not mean the same thing. However, this can sometimes make it much easier to spot something that really...
Mckie Legal Solicitors Ltd: The legal industry is one that really hasn't moved swiftly and easily into the modern digital available-all-the-time age. 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 ju...
Jacobs Law Solicitors:
A great feature is being able to see the qualification dates of any solicitor at a firm. However www.jacobslaw.co.uk is owned by a different firm (not an existing legal practice) and www.jacobslaw.com is owned by a law office in the USA. So that makes it less helpful in...
Allan Argue and Co Solicitors: The Scottish site has https: www.lawscot.org.uk news-and-events legal-news allan-argue-launches-his-own-practice " several articles about the launch of this firm< a>, but not a lot of good details such as staff, specialties, or qualification dates. So when you see firms o...
Springle Solicitors: On top of that, families are much further away from the stereotypical husband wife 2.6 children arrangement of old. The first port of call we usually recommend to help start telling them apart is The Law Society in your area. Solicitors are such a firm, specialising in Esta...
BLZ Solicitors Ltd: One tip though is to make sure the free consultation is with a qualified professional. Their site is https secure though so entering your information on the contact form should be fine. So to specialise in them most likely means they have a specialist knowledge they want ...
Hawkridge & Co Solicitors: The official website we link to above is www.hawklaw.co.uk with www.hawklaw.com being about some WWII land renovation project. So what should you look out for?
One thing that often bugs us is when a firm says they are 'award-winning'. These kinds of things are not aut...
Pacific Law: Versus the other side proclaiming their distate for all things stuffy and blasting a thesaurus-worth of synonyms of the word 'modern' across their sales pages. In fact there seems to be a very clear split in the industry, with one section of legal practices boasting about ...
ABS Lawyers Ltd: This brings us to one of the main reasons we were very keen to have ABS Lawyers Ltd on our network . We try to provide a good selection of potential service providers to people coming through our site looking for legal help. That means they've added up the experience years ...
Stenfield Solicitors Ltd: Especially when the sales language, images, names and even logos can all start looking identical after the first dozen websites you visit. We've also seen anti-capitalist rants copy pasted across a dozen legal professional's review sections.
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Khan Law Glasgow: We received a negative review last year accusing us of 'feeding the corrupt capitalist machine'. The majority have the same sort of sales language, the same images of people shaking hands happily, and the same boasts. No win no fee only guarantees there are no costs if the ...
Deo Volente Legal:
People have https: www.thetimes.co.uk static connected-families conveyancing-email-scam-hackers-steal-house-deposit " handed over millions to fraudsters< a> sometimes on the basis of just a few official looking emails. You may get a forty year experienced solicitor ...
Suhail Ahmad at Richmond Legal:
The firm's website is https secure for entering your personal details in their contact forms. Typically firms will handle a wide range of case types, or they will specialise. A last word from the company's site:
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Trust Inheritance Limited: It's important to make sure you're looking at the correct information when researching them, and probably a good idea to bookmark the correct site if you plan on coming back to it. A last word from the firm's website:
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Bilkus and Boyle: It says 'established' without the exaggeration. So where else can you search?
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You may also find that many of the lowest ratings often have nothing to do with the firm's services. For example, the review we saw criticising a Criminal Law firm...
Catteralls in Wakefield: We take pride in our commercially effective approach."< div>.
class="infoquote "Catteralls Solicitors have been based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire for over 100 years."< div>
Sadly many law firms use more marketing jargon on their websites rather than clear inform...
Penerley Solicitors: Even helping you register as a limited company is not the sole discretion of lawyers. Unfortunately this has not really spread to law firms as much as everywhere else.
class="infoquote "our innovative and less-stuffy approach to providing legal services ensure that th...
Conveyancing Search Providers: It probably doesn't occur to employees of a firm to jump on the web to write a review about a service their company uses.
The correct firm tends to come up at the top of search results for the majority of phrases we tried. Also most of the fraud involved in conveyancin...
Special Education Needs Lawyer:
You never know what scam will be next though so always make sure you're on the correct site and never discuss payments or bank details via email .
There are quite a few large firms that will take your Education Law case on. But since Legal Aid got demolished by t...
Pump Court Chambers Barristers: However to be qualified to handle such, the barrister you speak to should absolutely be capable of informing you quite early on if your case can be handled under those terms before you part with a single penny.
The Pump Court Chambers site is https secure for submitt...
Mason Bullock Solicitors: If you ever want to look up the specialties or qualification dates of the solicitor you are thinking of using, there is usually that information on the firm's local Law Society website. To make sure you don't think we fast-tracked even just this one firm we'd like to share s...
Lindsays Solicitors Scotland: Search engines seem to bring up the correct firm no matter what variants we used.
Their own website is https secure for filing in contact forms with your details which is great . It was at least three clicks in from the front page and only if you notice it in the subm...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services: At the moment, most fraudsters are doing their best to https: www.todaysconveyancer.co.uk main-news newlyweds-duped-into-handing-over-45000-house-deposit-to-fake-solicitor-account-after-scam-email " target people selling or buying a house< a> as the money scammed is clear...
OTS Immigration Solicitors: 'otsolicitors' variants) don't seem to occur much in our search function at least. So stars don't always reflect real position in the minds of previous clients. OTS Solicitors state being listed in https: www.legal500.com " The Legal 500< a>, which unfortunately is probab...
Reid and Black Solicitors: They also sponsor and support the local veterans football team 'The Comrades' which we recommend you https: www.newtownabbeytoday.co.uk news only-surviving-comrades-story-told-ballyclare-centenary-book-109620" read about here< a>. Reid Black clearly want to help people s...
Howe and Co Solicitors: Howe & Co seem to have solicitors from every decade of their history including Martin Howe (qualified in 1983), Mark Collins (1991), Nicole Bowler (2003), right up to Charlie Rose in 2019.
Luckily there are many resources available on the web for some independent back...
Robin Somerville Barrister: Direct Access is something barristers have to apply for and be qualified to offer. We checked with Google, Yelp, Yell.com and Trustpilot as well as some other sites like ours that recommend or list barrister information.
If you are thinking of using the Direct Access r...
Levins Solicitors: We're not too fond of people sharing their favourite colours or pet names. We're sad to say that even our own local law society (The Law Society of Scotland) does not come close in matching the England Wales site for usability and information. For example, https: www.lbc.c...
Aconveyancing Ltd: For example this article from https: www.standard.co.uk homesandproperty property-news stamp-duty-holiday-deadline-extension-rish-sunak-a140746.html" The Evening Standard< a> on stamp duty during the lengthy lockdown and the pressure currently on conveyancing firms in suc...
The Injury Solicitor Salford: These days solicitors move around law practices and even start up their own much more than just a few decades ago. But if you win, there may be. Unfortunately if you're researching a legal practice in an other country such as Scotland or Northern Ireland - the information is...
RD Costings Ltd: Something we would expect a personal injury lawyer on their first day to be able to push through without a hitch. Because RD Costings specialise in criminal injury matters, they are unlikely to be targets for scammers. Then after you've had the initial interview, have gone a...
MGBe Legal Ltd: This is reflected on the firm's website where the blog section contains actual help articles.
class="infoquote "At MGBe Legal we specialise in personal and business immigration."< div>
We've discussed the pros and cons of using specialist firms before, but there ...
McEwan Fraser Legal Scotland:
This is because a huge number of people have a bad experience selling buying a property in England for obvious reasons. Neither of which would impress you enough to use their actual services would it?
McEwan Fraser Legal on the other hand state very clearly under...
Fieldfisher Solicitors LLP: Not only that, they even have their own Wikipedia page. You'll see Fieldfisher have lawyers from each of the past four decades including Ian Austin (qualified in 1986), Bridget Collier (1997), Mark Greenhalgh (2008, and Jonathon Bell (2017).
If you https: solicitors.l...
Assured Probate Services: If you've read a few of our other articles, you'll know there is usually something unique or alternative about the firms we choose to review. However, putting everything we've written so far together - it may now be more apparent why we decided APS would be a good firm to ...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd in London: A final word from Linkilaw about their services:
class="infoquote "With straight forward and clear-cut advice, we help start-ups and entrepreneurs navigate law to help them succeed."< div>. So what does the firm's site say about their goals going forward?
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NV Legal Solicitors: In other words, someone has been injured or financially impacted by the actions of a third party. There are also Blog News style articles with a varying range of information such as 'Mental Capacity – Whose decision?'.
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SR Law Solicitors London: Sadly the number of people https: conversation.which.co.uk money scam-watch-property-housing-deposit-bank-transfer " falling for bank deposit scams< a> when buying selling a property is only on the rise.
class="infoquote "Our fees are reasonable and competitive ... ...
DFA Law Solicitors:
It's clearly working for them too because https: suite.endole.co.uk insight company OC334104-dfa-law-llp" the public records< a> for the firm show a thriving business at the time of writing. So how do we know DFA Law have experience staff? Most legal professionals a...
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