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Two Harcourt Buildings Chambers - 2HB Barristers in London: class="infoquote "Your case will be reviewed by a qualified Direct Access barrister within 48 working hours of the receipt of all relevant information."< div> We obviously think very highly of Two Harcourt Buildings chambers as we've recommended them across o...


A City Law Firm Ltd in London: That's very different to a firm having a 10 or 15 year experienced lawyer on staff. Their organisation provides an excellent range of user side data which is sadly not mirrored by their Scottish or Irish counterparts. It's more likely for firms to just say they are 'award w...


ACSL Solicitors Ltd in Liverpool: We did see a few negative comments but they were unclear and the firm has commented the name and description of the case doesn't match any of their past clients. We've been working in the legal industry for over 20 years now, just about to celebrate (a loose use of the word...


Backhouse Solicitors in Chelmsford, Essex: would make researching and choosing the right firm for you far more simple and sure. It's very common to see negative reviews from the other side of the transaction, not actual clients. Note that you may need to enter the full name plus location of a firm (e.g. But because...


Brian Barr Solicitors Ltd Chronic Pain & Fibromyalgia Compensation in Manchester: is to get a wider range of opinions but also to see if there are any themes in the negative feedback too such as not answering the phones, https: www.lawgazette.co.uk commentary-and-opinion prosecute-the-firms-that-force-junior-solicitors-to-cover-up-mistakes 5107928.artic...


Bridge McFarland LLP - Solicitors in Grimsby, Hull, Lincoln, Louth, and Market Rasen: The negative ones all seemed to relate to delays in a house purchase. class="infoquote "The firm now has offices in Grimsby, Hull, Lincoln, Louth, and Market Rasen and is considered one of the largest law firms in Lincolnshire, East and South Yorkshire and the Humber...


Brodies LLP Solicitors in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh & Inverness Scotland: So those words are pretty much meaningless. That's a range of solicitors with experience throughout the past four decades . Google has made some changes recently though which you may need to work around. But these days, the majority of law firms we work with are at varying ...


Brown & Co Solicitors in Greenwich, London: To check the individual experience amongst law professionals there is a great resource on The Law Society of England & Wales' website. class="infoquote "If your solicitor hasn't got time for you, it's unlikely that he or she has time for your opponents, their solic...


Buchanan & Co Ltd Solicitors in Staveley, Chesterfield, Kiveton Park & Sheffield: But according to our poll a few years back only 8% of you put any stock in company provided reviews. Either way though, always make sure to read actual comments rather than rely on average star ratings. However every firm we add to our network goes through various chec...


Calio Claims Ltd - Personal Injury in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth & Dundee: If you are looking for information or reviews about the firmm Google has change a little recently and you may have to enter the location as well as the firm's nam. class="infoquote "Wherever possible, we aim to deal with claims on a "no-win, no-fee basis" whi...


Cullimore Dutton Solicitors Ltd - Conveyancing & Legal Services in Chester: You have to read the comments. Sadly due to the volatile nature of property buying and selling, there is usually one side of it that comes away less happy than they expected. Thousands of people https: www.thetimes.co.uk static connected-families conveyancing-email-scam-h...


CWJ Solicitors & Notaries - Clarkson Wright & Jakes Ltd in Orpington, Kent: The official website is www.cwj.co.uk and it is HTTPS secure if you want to submit your personal details in their contact form. With so much sales language to wade through, what should you be looking for? class="infoquote "CWJ is a leading regional firm of Solicit...

Scotland Injury Solicitors from Baker Hardman Ltd in Glasgow: With our own firm being based in Scotland, that's a difficult thing for us to admit . It seems so long ago that you would have a handful of solicitor offices in your local high street that handled everything. There is a separate website for the Scottish branch at www.scotla...


Defank Solicitors in London: class="infoquote "Our firm is proud to serve the London community and beyond, delivering exceptional legal solutions"< div> A quick note on navigation. The firm's official site is www.defanksolicitors.com but www.defanksolicitors.co.uk is not owned by them. It's...


Dispute Resolver Consultancy - Mediation & Alternative Dispute Resolution ADR in London: There are client testimonials on this firm's website. At the time of writing this, the Dispute Resolver Consultancy states 14 years of experience on their website and over 500 cases handled which certainly sounds like the level you would want. class="infoquote "...


Drummond Miller LLP Solicitors in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bathgate, Musselburgh, Dalkeith & East Kilbride: It's a resource we constantly recommend to people . In other words, they don't just leave a review for their own solicitor but for the solicitor of the other buyer seller's solicitor too. Any concerns, ring your actual solicitor to check. class="infoquote "Drummond M...


Eatons Solicitors in Bradford, Bingley, Yeadon & Leeds West Yorkshire: Sometimes it's just because they received a last minute official-looking email telling them the bank details have changed. There are other resources and other ways of simply thinking about things that can help spot genuine experience and positive qualities over those simpl...


EDC Lord & Co Solicitors in Southall: Therefore, it is extremely important to us that we provide an excellent service."< div> One of the standout features of the EDC Lord website is the detailed information provided on each of the firm's practice areas. A quick note on navigation. The comments and re...


EMD Law LLP Solicitors in Staplehurst & St Leonards-on-Sea: class="infoquote "Initial free 30 minute consultation on some matters"< div> This probably sounds little more stingy than it should. Otherwise, why share your private matters with the world? We definitely recommend reading the full reviews when it comes to sol...


Eve Lake Conveyancing & Legal Services in Hope Valley: There are a lot of terms to contend with when searching for help with legal matters. Serving clients nationally."< div> That's the tagline for the Eve Lake website which is an example of a Licensed Conveyancer. How does Eve Lake Conveyancing fare on the comment forums?...

Amy King Legal - Personal Injury & Litigation Solicitor in Gillingham, Kent: The concept in TV shows such as Boston Legal where a large established firm's name can strike fear into a company or government agency has never been the case here in the UK. Watch out for firms that use marketing jargon. So does the age of a company's brand name mean anyt...


Foster & Coleman Ltd Solicitors in Bromley, Greater London: The idea being that the older the firm, the more established and experienced. This isn't as big an issue for this firm as their case range focuses on business commercial law matters. The site is https secure for submitting your personal details on their contact form. It...


Frei Solicitors Ltd - Luxury Asset Law Firm in London: The amount of legal work required to buy, sell and just own a house is huge. The firm's offical website follows the branding name www.freisolicitors.com, just watch the spelling or maybe bookmark the site if coming back later? The site is HTTPS secure for submitting querie...


Girlings Solicitors LLP & Girlings Personal Injury Claims Ltd in Sandwich, Ashford & Canterbury: They also https: girlingspersonalinjury.co.uk news.php?page=1" share case studies< a> which for some reason many people find facinating on their own. But as phrases such as No Win No Fee became the standard, the number of law firms opening up separate personal injury bran...


Goldsmith Bowers Debt Recovery & Litigation Solicitors in Bradford: With people moving more freely between companies these days that is even less true now than it was fifty years ago. Over the past two decades people have https: www.express.co.uk life-style property 1511097 property-warning-home-buyers-scam-conveyancing-fraud" hand...


Guardian Law Ltd - Employment & HR Lawyers in Nottingham: There are several statements such as these two offering free help articles. https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 471765 guardian-law-limited" For this firm< a> you'll see the two principal solicitors Claire Scanlan and Nichola Elenor qualified in 2003 and 2002 respe...


Harrison's Solicitors - Conveyancing in Reading, Caversham & Woodley: Unfortunately for conveyancing firms when things go wrong they will usually get the blame no matter what has caused the delay or issue. (Only 8% of you said you trusted them at all.) class="infoquote "handled very professionally, always prompt and with a success...


HCR Legal LLP Solicitors Law Firm incl Medical Accident Group in Worcester, Birmingham & Hereford: class="infoquote "As an award winning Top 60 UK law firm we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals."< div> One great resource we always recommend to people is the website of The Law Society of...


Heritage Park Family Law Ltd - Barrister Chambers in Ampthill, Bedford: In the statement above this firm states 'specialists in family law since 1994' . As you can see on the information page for this firm the main barrister, Lisa Smith, entered the profession in 1994. Since the explosion of the internet, we are now a good few decades away from...


Horsley Law Solicitors in Stafford aka Horsley Holdings Ltd: The snippets above are from testimonials posted on the firm's own site but many prefer to use independent boards such as Google, Facebook or Trustpilot. They also state (at the time of writing): class="infoquote "99% trials won. 100% Satisfied Clients."< div> Th...


Kee Solicitors Ltd in Glasgow & Aberdeen: Apart from that though, the site is happily concise providing the information you would want to read rather than hundreds of pages with bland articles simply for trying to get more pages into search engines. We have one niche firm on our network handling only life-changing...


QualitySolicitors Large & Gibson - Law Firm in Southsea, Portsmouth: A quick note on navigation. The brand could be 120 years while all their solicitors qualified 6 months ago. Clearly there is a great deal of potential experience within the firm, spanning the past six decades . Each firm also typically changes their own website to re...


LS Legal Solicitors Ltd: class="infoquote "we cooperate with our trusted partners who can assist with accountancy, investment management, legal funding, franchise and other services"< div> . We very rarely push out direct advice in our articles but we have no problem stating that if the soli...


Lyons Solicitors - Law Firm in Kingswood, Westbury-on-Trym & Chew Magna (Bristol): class="infoquote "We have a long-established local client base as we pride ourselves on providing a first class personal service to all of our clients."< div> Clearly the firm must have a considerable amount expertise and experience based on that information....


Mark Croft Driving Offence Solicitor in Derby: class="infoquote "I am available to undertake criminal legal aid agency work."< div> Again this is another statement that you might let slip by , but since the '90s there have been increasing efforts by each goverment to decrease the number of people that can q...


McCarthy + Co LLP Solicitors in Dublin, Cork & Clonakilty: They are not the be-all and end-all of important things to check. Independent markers such as these can help identify firms that are well established and keen to show a higher quality status. In the end, all it showed us was the address and phone number for McCarthy & Co. ...


MJV & Co Solicitors Ltd - Law Firm in Thornton-Cleveleys, Blackpool: Make sure you're on the correct site and never discuss payments via email. . 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). But one thing we did notice as a recurring theme...


SG Murphy & Co Ltd - Solicitors in Newtownabbey, Belfast: In the last piece we wrote the firm had multiple complaints about feeling fobbed off onto junior staff. Those are all great things to be as a law firm, but certainly there are no firms claiming to be the opposite. We had to search for the exact firm name which was entered ...


Nicholson Jones Sutton Solicitors in Macclesfield: Which is surely a good type of staff mix at any firm? class="infoquote "NJS Solicitors understands that each client is unique and our experienced solicitors' teams will work with you to provide advice and solutions tailored to your individual circumstances."< div> ...


Oakwood Solicitors Ltd & Oakwood Property Solicitors in Leeds: Most preferred to read the experiences of previous clients on independent boards such as Facebook, Google, Trustpilot, etc. Oakwood clearly have a wide range of experience covering almost the last five decades. But while these terms sound wonderful, they are not rea...


PCS Legal Ltd Conveyancing Solicitors in Basildon, Ongar, Wickford, London, Rayleigh &Harlow: Again, many people end up picking the conveyancer they like without checking with their mortgage provider first which can cause issues. If you look up the average star ratings for the top 10 property firms in the UK you will find most of them end up with that sort of number....


Smith and Graham Solicitors in Hartlepool, Peterlee and Middlesbrough: They also have actual prices listed on their website which is rare and great to see . Sadly establishment dates are one of those marketing things companies with less-than-good-intentions misuse all the time. The number of large multi-office firms only seems to increase due ...


Solidaire Solicitors - Solidaire Law Ltd in Milton Keynes: This means you are able to verify the 'experience' level of any solicitor you might be thinking of using. So how do you tell the firms apart when a website is pretty much all you have to go on? Solidaire are a law firm based in Milton Keynes. The firm's site is HT...


Sternberg Reed LLP Solicitors with Offices in Romford, Barking & Grays: class="infoquote "The firm merged with David Charnley & Co in 2007, TNT Kelly Solicitors in 2009 and TNT Solicitors in 2011."< div> One thing to note if you are researching any firm is that Google has changed how it displays information and you typically have to...


Summerfield Browne Solicitors in London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Market Harborough & Leicester: Plus, for the public boards things can get a little more complicated. Hopefully we will see all law firms offer free initial consultations in the future, even just 30 mins over video chat. The firm states offices in London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Market Harborough, a...


Thaxted Legal Ltd Immigration Solicitors in Chislehurst, London: We've written over 200+ articles on legal service providers in the UK with tips on what to look for when trying to get legal help, resources you can use, and things to avoid. Sadly the government body doesn't even provide a good advisor search function and when trying to loo...


Stephanie Heijdra - The Lady Barrister & Clerksroom Chambers in London: As they do not work as a team that doesn't really help you as a client know much about how your case might potentially be handled. Unfortunately with the direct access scheme being so new it may not be something you've heard of yet and hopefully more information on each barr...


Thomas and Thomas Solicitors Ltd in Maesteg, Bridgend & Port Talbot: The firm does have testimonials on their website. So what are they saying? class="infoquote "made a house sale process smooth and as quick as possible" "Young friendly staff keen and pleasant" "worked tirelessly to ensure that the purchase didn't fall through"< ...


The Law Partnership Ltd - Solicitors in Coventry: If a firm has only one solicitor on board yet states they handle every case type possible - then it is unlikely they will excel at any of them. To start with, Google is trying to be stricter on review searches, so these days you sometimes have to type in the city of t...


TWB Probate Solicitors Ltd - Estate Planning, Wills & Probate in London: The .co.uk version doesn't currently redirect you there and with the longer name it may be an idea to bookmark the site if you plan on coming back to it. Grants of Representation - Administration of Estates – And Nothing Else"< div> For example, this quote is from th...


UVS Law Immigration & Visa Solicitor in Burton-on-Trent & London: The Immigration Rules specify that an applicant for entry clearance must be outside the UK at the time of application. However you need to be very careful when it comes to legal services as not only are there stories about people https: www.unlockthelaw.co.uk News fake-law...


Walker Foster Ltd Solicitors in Skipton, Barnoldswick, Silsden, Settle, Ilkley, Northallerton & Harrogate: The thing to watch for is whether that helps you distinguish one firm from another. That's a big bit of praise considering we're a old Scottish company. They are something to watch for on law firm's websites. The .com version is https-secure though for submitting your pers...


Waterstone Partnership Solicitors Ltd in Bradford: Because they also provide the qualification dates and areas of law focused on by each solicitor. Also for finding the correct reviews you sometimes have to enter a firm's location in Google - e.g. For example www.waterstoneps.co.uk currently does not redirect you to the corr...


WH Law Ltd - Immigration Solicitors in Woking: We've seen law firms praised for their innovative menu and criminal law specialists rated one star for refusing a divorce case. We've long praised this organisation's consumer offering over the years. But typically the fraudsters targeting law firm clients are only after pro...


Wildcat Law Ltd Solicitors in London & Southampton: Alot of firms might state they are 'award winning' without ever actually letting you know whether that award was for best logo design or something actually useful for practicing law. Sometimes simply because they received https: todaysconveyancer.co.uk newlyweds-duped-into...


Wilford Smith Solicitors in Sheffield (Meadowhall) & Rotherham - WS Strategic Ltd: Keep aware of which site you are on and never discuss payment details via email.. So for Wilford Smith to have such a high positive profile on review sites is very encouraging. We are your trusted advisor."< div> If you've already been through a dozen law firm website...


Wolf Law Solicitors Ltd in Wirral: If you are looking up the firm on Google such as for reviews, you may have to enter the town name as well to get those details to show up - e.g. For example the https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 563096 wolf-law-solicitors-ltd" page for this firm< a> displays the ...


Woodstock Legal Services Ltd - Solicitors Law Practice in Poole: class="infoquote "You will find us approachable, straight-forward and responsive."< div> Unfortunately there is often a lot of sales-pitchy language on any law firm's website. class="infoquote "Our lawyers are highly skilled specialists in their areas. ...


WYM Legal Ltd Conveyancing Solicitors in Watford: Obviously with a w right after the www. This is especially important when it comes to conveyancing firms. Each calling themselves modern, efficient, or friendly with photos of people smiling and shaking hands. Most will be cautious about what they say on a legal servi...


Law (aka All Law Ltd) Solicitors in Preston: The firm has some testimonials included on their website. The official site for this firm has a less usual ending to being www.your.law and no other websites currently redirect you there. For example, if you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 26041 all-law-limited"...


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