Finding the Right Help in the UK
Hill House Chambers Barristers: class="infoquote "Barristers Mohsin Aslam was very professional too when he articulated case" "Spencer's friendly demeanour and flexibility ensures the right barrister is offered even at short notice" "Spencer Payne was very professional in how he handled the con...
Stowe Family Law Solicitors: Some firms have very little writing with massive images of people shaking hands and smiling. You have to search for your specific local office to see reviews about it only. < p> align="center images l stowe_family_law-stowefamilylaw_co_uk.png
Bellax Solicitors: A firm that handles a single case types such as Motoring Offences is an obvious example of a specialist . Fortunately, Bell Lax https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 589519 bell-lax-limited" are registered with them< a>. This can be very confusing, but 9 times out o...
JPS Walker Solicitors: These days with the internet people can instead search for the best representation for their particular issue from firms all over the country. This competition has really benefited clients in ensuring firms really buckle down and excel in a certain area. class="infoq...
The Legal Practice Solicitors: Also be aware that if a firm has more than one office there may be separate reviews for each. Indeed at the time of writing this, The Legal Practice's website opens with:
class="infoquote "Over 50 Years of Legal Experience. There is also a huge amount of people that le... Burton & Co Quality Solicitors:
class="infoquote "We are also the only Solicitors Firm in Lincoln who open every Saturday* from 09.30 to 12.30.
So Yates and Co became QualitySolicitors Yates and Co. (Hence us bringing it to your attention here.) Obviously we would never tell anyone that a speci...
Young & Co Solicitors: It's quite a common company name really, so make sure you are on the correct site.
class="infoquote "Our specialisation in our key areas make us experts rather than 'jack of all trades'."< div>
Areas of law that a firm handles is also something you can usually con...
Lefevres Scotland Ltd:
One thing that can get confusing though is when a firm is labelled as a 'specialist' but seems to state a simply huge range of cases that they cover.
Sadly in Scotland the Law Society website covering legal professionals is not as good as their English Welsh cou...
David Stinson & Co Solicitors:
class="infoquote "We work on road accident claims and workplace accident claims among others on a no win no fee basis."< div>
All law offices that handle injury compensation claims should provide free initial consultations. They provide all trading names of a fir...
Cook's Solicitors:
Of course, the first point of call for most people are the prior customer reviews when they are checking out any service provider. They are certainly meaningless, but also often completely tenuous too. Again though, whilst many solicitors use different trading names to...
Swain and Co Solicitors: Entering such will bring up an error or redirect you elsewhere depending on what browser you are using. Unlike restaurants, hairdressers, or local pubs - legal professional get negative reviews for the strangest things .
For example in Havant (near Portsmouth) they li...
Fentimans My Law Matters: So when you see statements like this:
class="infoquote "My Law Matters is a trading style of Fentiman Legal Limited, a professional and dynamic legal practice that offers legal advice to national and international clients."< div>
on any law firm's website - then w...
Frazer Coogans Solicitors: Whilst we work very hard to find as many alternative options for people to help with legal matters, sometimes you do just need a regular high street law firm. That's probably why independent review forums such as
One Law Solicitors & Barristers: They often sound very different from regular third party review forums as well. The biggest difference being that these are all very positive comments handpicked by the firm to appear on their website. With that in mind we always recommend people read actual comments lef...
Beers Solicitors LLP: That is not the case. Again, a very good reason to read the comments fully first. Sadly https: www.lawgazette.co.uk news conveyancing-fraud-gang-jailed-for-diverting-deposit-monies 5103305.article" thousands of people have handed their life savings< a> over to fraudsters ...
Disrepair Claims UK: That means they do not have solicitors on staff but will take your details, discuss your case, then find a solicitor from their own panel of firms to process the matter on your behalf.
Most of the time unregulated claims resellers hide out on social media sites like F...
Simper Law: The most common error we spotted was people searching for 'simple law ltd' and related variants. It also has a few quirks that will allow us to discuss important things to pay attention to when researching the best firm for your specific needs. Tech companies, restaurants, s...
RM Solicitors: Yes, if the firm is registered with a law society then you can usually find out quite a bit about them independently. 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 s...
Ullah Law Associates: a dedicated criminal defence practice specializing in high-profile, complex cases, often with an international dimension"< div>
They then branched out into other areas of law as the firm grew.
We've always been a fan of case studies but we've been working in the in...
Taylor Price Legal Ltd: William Ho qualified as a solicitor in 1989, Ruby Bhatti in 1997, Arshad Mahmood in 2008, and Sobia Ditta in 2011. Surely an ideal mix for any legal service provider?
class="infoquote "Our team members have been ranked as leading lawyers, recommended counsel and indivi...
Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors: That's a bigger deal than you might think.
If you flick through each of the staff at MLJ you'll see some focus on Personal Injury, others on Property Matters, and others on things like Family Law.
class="infoquote "great help in a recent case and kept me up to d...
Milners Law LLP:
class="infoquote "very professional and helpful and provided a personal service which I imagine larger companies would not be able to provide"
"a professional and personable approach to what was a daunting experience"
"committed to the traditional values of ...
KRS Wills & Probate:
Most of the alternate searches we did such as 'krs wills' and 'krs probate' still brought up the correct firm. KRS are focused on a specialist case range with their qualifications, expertise, and experience all validated through third party websites.
Thanks to c...
Branch Austin McCormick Solicitors: The firm uses the dot com which is more international with the official website being at www.branchaustin.com but www.branchaustin.co.uk does redirect you there. So don't take any negative ratings as meaning anything unless there are explanatory (non-stupid) reasons given. ...
Trojan Solicitors: they won 'best company logo 1999'. However you'll also see they handle a few other case types including Family Law and Civil Litigation. They provide a huge amount of user-side data about the law firms registered with them including alternate trading names, other office addr...
Cheshire Estates and Legal Ltd: We know firms that don't have a website or won't accept email communications, and the amount of printing and letter posting is simply absurd in this day and age. Especially if this was the umpteenth law site you've visited today as they can start to appear unbelievably simil...
Fultons Estate Agents: That's because the majority of conveyancing firms have negative reviews.
There were even comments we would consider completely useless such as "I will take my business elsewhere!" with no clarification about why. "excuse after excuse blaming my own solicitor" . Thos...
Hooper Hyde Solicitors:
HooperHyde obviously stood out to us enough for them to become included on our site. We try to provide a range of possible solutions to point people in the right direction. We currently showcase the regular high-street-style solicitors people have come to expect, as w...
Antony Hodari Legal Services: There shouldn't be too many problems though as the firm name is unique and doesn't use generic terms. . Almost a 'crusade' mentality. We never know what fraudsters will come up with next though so just keep aware of the sites you're on and never discuss payments via email. ...
Fair Result Divorce: Even 'fair result ltd' provided only a handful of related sites including their listing at https: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk company 13245277" Companies House< a>. A big part of their setup seems to be that they will only work with reasonable peopl...
Dylan Nair Ltd Solicitors:
The problem is mostly with property matters and conveyancing as https: www.clc-uk.org watch-out-for-conveyancing-fraud " fraudsters have managed to scam multi-millions< a> out of people buying selling a home. There's also a good mix of fluent languages spoken at thi...
Mckie Legal Solicitors Ltd:
class="infoquote "Insurance policy in place so nothing to pay win or lose*."< div>
It therefore looks as though Mckie's solicitors offer both . This is usually marked very clearly and carefully on each firm's website of course. It's just far less likely that som...
Jacobs Law Solicitors: There are 10 solicitors at the firm at time of writing with Noel Lee having qualified in 1997, William Cheung in 2005, Ahmed Yousafzai in 2011, and more - right up to Sarah Khan in 2021. That way when you see statements about a firm having decades of experience - you can mak...
Allan Argue and Co Solicitors: No, really. Despite the long list of case types we state this firm covers, they are actually specialists. Even zero reviews is not a bad sign.
class="infoquote "... We've seen reviews posted by the opposing (losing) side in a case. So it would seem that both experie...
Springle Solicitors: For example, it states Claire Springle qualified as a solicitor in 2001 so that's over two decades of possible experience. Apparently it seems to be quite easy to https: www.lloydsbank.com help-guidance protecting-yourself-from-fraud invoice-scams.html#:~:text=Fraudsters%...
BLZ Solicitors Ltd: 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.
That's something to watch for especially with property matters as scammers contact clients telling them depos...
Hawkridge & Co Solicitors: It's therefore not uncommon to see zero reviews for even established firms on Google, Trustpilot, Yelp, etc. That's because whilst people are quite happy to jump online and rave about their new toaster, they aren't so quick to discuss their divorce, bankruptcy, debts, or c...
Pacific Law: 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...
ABS Lawyers Ltd: If the firm you're researching is signed up to them - wonderful.
They are one of the few firms we've seen with a https: abslawyers.co.uk pl home-polski " full Polish section< a> on their website. One is to quote an ancient founding date such as 'established in 1882!'...
Stenfield Solicitors Ltd: One main difference between the types of law firm we typically cover and add to our search database is that the majority are not high street firms. For the past few years https: www.actionfraud.police.uk alert fraudsters-hacking-into-emails-to-divert-house-purchase-payment...
Khan Law Glasgow: Usually that's because they have individual solicitors within the firm that handle specific case types. But the same themes of praise are echoed across the independent forums as well such as Trustpilot,
Deo Volente Legal: You may get a one year qualified solicitor from a 200 year old firm.
DV Solicitors have other positive points. For example their Blog section is not just another excuse to push out extra sales pitches. We've also seen negative reviews against a criminal law firm for r...
Suhail Ahmad at Richmond Legal: The most common typos we'd expect would obviously be www.richmondlegal.co.uk and the .com and neither of them are owned by this company either.
A quick note on navigation though as when we tried searching for information around the web about this firm, Google wasn't th...
Trust Inheritance Limited: Trust Inheritance does have some testimonials on their site:
class="infoquote "Couldn’t have wished for a more friendly and helpful person for the advice needed"
"spoke to me with such care and kindness"
"manner was very professional and empathetic"< div>
...
Bilkus and Boyle: A two hundred year old brand name doesn't have a two hundred year old solicitor dealing with cases. However these information spots are often blank or incomplete, and none show actual qualification dates of the lawyers within the practice like the English Welsh version does....
Catteralls in Wakefield: Never discuss bank details via email and just try to keep aware of which website you are on. They stated as such on their about us page. We did see the name 'Catterall Pell & Moxon' popping up, a branding that no longer operates.
Whilst getting on with your solicitor ...
Penerley Solicitors:
Their site is https secure for submitting your personal details on their contact form. The official site we link to above is www.penerley.co.uk and www.penerley.com redirects you there as well. Even today there are dozens of law firms that don't even have a website...
Conveyancing Search Providers:
If you've read some of our other articles where we research solicitors, barristers and law practices across the UK - you'll probably be used to seeing far more in depth information, resources, and opinions than what's been provided here. There are some testimonials pri...
Special Education Needs Lawyer: Criminal Injury and Uninsured Driver cases are often like this because they involved pursuing money from the government. It was harder to find reviews at all on their company due to the branding (which we'll discuss later). For example:
class="infoquote • "Making ...
Pump Court Chambers Barristers: It's not that they are a small firm either.
class="infoquote "Cordelia was very friendly and put things into words that I could understand. Huge numbers of them state they provide their services 'nationally' in the hope of getting as many clients as possible. A real es...
Mason Bullock Solicitors:
The reason we point out common errors is because of how easy it is for people to think they are on the correct site or being emailed from an official address when they are not. Did that mean we skipped over the usual checks? Of course not. When it comes to personal inj...
Lindsays Solicitors Scotland: However we thought it could be very helpful to take you through a few of the reasons we chose to work with them.
Lindsays does have the standard testimonials page, however it seemed to be a little more buried than usual. So is this positivity reflected on the third pa...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services: In fact, an experienced accountant could cost much less yet be far more effective . Obviously, never discuss such payments via email or even with someone that calls you up.
Is this a negative point then? Licensing is an area of law where you can have help and be repr...
OTS Immigration Solicitors: These are on the national, county or often city level if the population is big enough. We check the usual spots most people visit such as Google, Trustpilot, Yell.com and Yelp. All following the same themes about friendliness and most relating to Immigration as well.
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Reid and Black Solicitors: Most solicitors will register with a Law Society even though it is not mandatory.
All these together hopefully show why we thought Reid Black Solicitors were a good match for our network . Some of which have been past names but their current registered company name is...
Howe and Co Solicitors: Often those little badges at the bottom of law firm's pages aren't just for show either. If you scroll down to the bottom of most pages on their website you'll also see a short list of awards they have won and been nominated for. So it's always best to actually read the comm...
Robin Somerville Barrister: Links to pages on official sites such as companies house or the practice solicitor's local law society. This is not always the case. None of the inputs are marked as to whether they are *required information or not. When it comes to individuals rather than large 100+ staffed...
Levins Solicitors: 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. The branding logo of the firm states Levins Solicitors th...
Aconveyancing Ltd:
None of that seemed to apply to Aconveyancing's reviews. These can save you quite a lot of money by simply processing the actual details of the sale purchase. Of course, there will be several other variants available such as www.aconveyancy.com or using "a-conveyancing...
The Injury Solicitor Salford: Unfortunately if you're researching a legal practice in an other country such as Scotland or Northern Ireland - the information is not nearly as abundant.
The Law Society of England & Wales have the most informative and useful user-side display we've seen though. This...
RD Costings Ltd: 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 personal injury focused lawyers tend to list Criminal Injury matters as more of a "yes, we do th...
MGBe Legal Ltd: But if you get someone not on the ball for your criminal defence or immigration - your whole life is affected. So it may be an idea to bookmark the site . Author of numerous articles on EEA law and trainer with ILPA and HJT."< div>
Dual qualifications across two countr...
McEwan Fraser Legal Scotland:
class="infoquote "Our staff are fluent in 10 foreign languages to deal with our growing number of international buyer enquiries."< div>
. The number ...
Fieldfisher Solicitors LLP:
If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 496189 fieldfisher-llp" visit the page for the firm's Manchester office< a> for example you can find links to alternative contact details, language specialties, areas of expertise, and qualification dates for solicito...
Assured Probate Services:
class="infoquote "APS Legal and Associates are one of the UK’s largest and most reputable will writing and estate planning companies."< div>
Most websites make claims like this using terms such as "estimated", "possibly", "one of the", "up to" and so on. property...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd in London: The solicitors themselves also get scammed into paying out to the wrong people. Sadly there is a large chunk of business owners who will whole heartedly accept what a YouTube vlogger tells them is the correct way to do things. Chances are most review sites will do the same a...
NV Legal Solicitors: Your claim will NOT [sic] be handled by a non-qualified, unskilled person or paralegal ..."< div>
This is another statement to keep an eye out for and something which often pops up in negative reviews of firms. The law firm then pursues the third party, or more often th...
SR Law Solicitors London: So what we can help with is advice on some ways you can check up on a firm to see if they meet with what you're looking for. General practice solicitors, niche local firms, nationwide multi-office firms, direct access barristers, and specialists only handling a single case t...
DFA Law Solicitors:
Luckily there are a lot more resources online to help choose a law firm than is probably known to most people. There is a lot to find between-the-lines in the wording firms use on their website too. DFA Law on the other hand has both a long establishment date and wel...
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