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5 Essex Court Chambers & Partners - Barristers in London: Unfortunately Google can be quite slow in responding to scammers. However under the new Direct Access scheme members of the public are able to hire a barrister directly. Many of our barristers are qualified to accept Direct Access instructions."< div> That's from the fi...
Aconveyancing Ltd in Tamworth & Shirley (Solihull): But also because most people end up cross with their conveyancer at some point during the sale or purchase. None of that seemed to apply to Aconveyancing's reviews. The majority are positive comments, and by some considerable margin too. class="infoquote "We he...
Aina Khan Law Ltd - Family Law Solicitors in Broxbourne, London: Again, www.ainakhan.co.uk was not in use. 5,000+ cases. Member of Law Society’s Advanced Family Panel."< div> A quick note on navigation. This firm obviously focuses solely on Family Law matters . We also saw the site www.ainakhan.com mentioned on other websites and in...
Allsop Durn Solicitors in Ruislip: A good mix of 'wiser heads' whilst still having some fresh blood in the mix. really.) So always put the star ratings into context by reading the comments that go with. Allsop Durn don't actually have any on their website, but there are plenty on the third party boards su...
Apprise Legal Services - Wills, Trusts, Probate & Estate Planning in Sutton Coldfield: The term 'Estate Planning' is only just starting to gain ground here in the UK. However if you own a business, have an ex-wife, children, life insurance, etc. So how can you tell the difference? Once source we often quote is the various Law Societies that legal profes...
APS Legal & Associates Ltd - Will Advisors and Assured Probate Services: For example, the APS Legal & Associates main website does have the usual testimonials page. But still pay attention to the links you click and remember that email addresses can be faked quite easily. They should have the APS Legal logo on their website though and you can alw...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services in Whitley Bay, Newcastle: People have given away millions each year to fraudsters. They handle what would be considered legal matters, and the term 'advisors' is used. We promote the same sort of alternative help in other areas of law as well. In fact, an experienced accountant could cost much less ...
Auto Logistic Solutions Ltd - Vehicle Accident Management: 18.2% of people said that they were wrong. It's not uncommon for even law firms to state they have a 150 year history simply because their firm bought over another firm where the founder had a grandfather that owned a dog that liked the owner of practice nearby. For example,...
Avery & Walters Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Harrogate: Avery Walters Solicitors states having two offices and the one in Leeds certainly bears that name. The https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk organisation people 530926 avery-walters-limited?Solicitors=True" page for this firm< a> for example lists a good mix of season...
AWH Legal Ltd - AWH Solicitors in Manchester & Blackburn: Whilst most scammers tend to target conveyancing firms, you never know what's around the corner.. class="infoquote "We are a modern multi-service law firm based in Manchester and Blackburn, proudly providing award-winning legal services to clients nationwide."< div> ...
Briffa Legal Ltd Intellectual Property (IP) Solicitors in London: We love case studies in the same way teenagers love YouTube. We're always open about the fact that some of the firms we review might be current partners of ours. Do you?) Briffa's staff profiles are actually quite revealing as to why the firm does so well across so many ind...
CFG Law Personal Injury Solicitors in Cheadle, Greater Manchester: As CFG points out on their website: class="infoquote "Following a serious accident, it may be necessary for you to have adaptations made to your home, or more suitable accommodation may need to be found longer-term. On this occasion, the firm has thankfully missed out...
CSL Law Ltd Solicitors in Croydon: However that is only the date the 'Limited' version of the company was incorporated. lacking an online presence. Other public pages such as their Twitter feed are kept fresh with a good mix of self promotion, retweets, and links to relevant articles. Our clients are treate...
DFA Law LLP Solicitors in Northampton: The site will also provide you with individual details of various staff members. However the DFA Law news section has genuine articles intended to inform people about real matters. Luckily there are a lot more resources online to help choose a law firm than is ...
Driscoll Kingston Solicitors in Liverpool: However variants such as www.driscollkingston.com or those with a hyphen in the driscoll-kingston don't currently go anywhere so it would be best to bookmark just in case. No really! That's like giving Pizza Hut 1 star for not serving the Chinese food you asked for. In thi...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Ltd | Motor Offence Lawyers in Manchester & London: 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. The website we link to above is www.drivingdefences.co.uk with the .com version working (www.drivingdefences.com) but only...
Fieldfisher LLP Personal Injury Solicitors in Manchester & London: class="infoquote "We are renowned for our expertise in handling mesothelioma and other asbestos related disease claims."< div> Luckily, some of the firm's offices are in England which puts them under The Law Society of England & Wales. For others, they like to see...
Frank Rogers Law Ltd - Motoring Offence Solicitor in Birkenhead: Unfortunately most companies, not just in the legal industry, use the Blog section to create a dozen extra sales pitches disguised as news or thin information. This is limited to 30 minutes."< div> They also appear to have a genuine Blog section. So that's good. Of cour...
GloverPriest Solicitors Ltd in Birmingham (Great Barr), Stourbridge, Wellingborough & Tamworth: Some firms decide to go further and tell you the staff member's hobbies, pet's names and favourite colours. We therefore absolutely recommend bookmarking the official site once you're on it and of course never discuss personal bank details via email. Offer to completion wa...
HH Law Ltd - Hampson Hughes Solicitors in Liverpool: You can look up the expertise and years of experience of any solicitor registered with The Law Socienty. Unfortunately the only way to really know if a firm lives up to that promise is at the end of the case. As always, we advise giving more weight to reviewers who are mark...
Helix Law Ltd - Solicitors in Brighton & Eastbourne: Again, this is rarer than you would think and another very positive point for Helix Law as a firm that goes beyond. A quick note on navigation because, as you can see, the official website of the firm is hyphenated - www.helix-law.co.uk - with the www.helixlaw.co.uk v...
HJA.net - Hodge Jones & Allen LLP Solicitors in London: This 'big-ness' doesn't just apply to their online presence or things that could be considered mere PR branding efforts. There does seem to have been a website at www.hodgejonesallen.co.uk at some point, and you may see it pop up in the search results of Google. We li...
Howe + Co Solicitors in Brentford, London: The snippets above were from the usual third party boards such as Google, Yell.com, Yelp and Trustpilot. Luckily there are many resources available on the web for some independent backchecks and information. If you scroll down to the bottom of most pages on their webs...
R James Hutcheon Solicitors - Law Firm in Liverpool: So what do we like and dislike about R James Hutcheon Solicitors. We provide our clients with an option to keep all of their compensation, subject to terms please ask."< div> One thing we've always tried to get across regarding claims such as Medical Negligence or Cata...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Ltd in Newry and Dublin: Put it all together and you can get a much better picture of how well established and how strong a firm and the team within it are. Sadly, the focus seems to be more on the person's favourite colour and hobbies rather than any real insight into how they will act as your so...
IWC Estate Planning & Management Ltd - Probate & Will Services in Croydon, Bristol & Braintree: And they could be a little more consistent about their branding, even just for the sake of navigation. to try and balance the negative reviews people were posting about them. Now if only the banking industry could start to be open a decent number of hours a week - society co...
Jarmans Solicitors Ltd in Sittingbourne, Kent & Chancery Lane, London: Jay Sahota, a senior partner, worked in a City law firm before moving to Jarmans Solicitors handling litigation matters up to £3.5billion. Jarmans do push forward one common sales pitch argument though, regarding the law firm's perceived age: class="infoquote "We give ...
Joanna Connolly Solicitors in Liverpool, Merseyside: 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. For example, when we checked their site it stated that during th...
Kings View Chambers, London with Stephen McCaffrey & Catherine Stock: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk did show up in the search results, but we could find no link between them and King's View. There are other websites such as www.stephenmccaffreybarrister.com out there with information about the firm and staff, but I would imagine the official o...
Kudos Legal Ltd Solicitors in Glasgow and Preston: Your preferred English law firm may not be the best choice for that highland cow holiday incident in Inverness. The only issue when looking such things up is that there doesn't seem to be a clear separation between their Preston and Glasgow offices. Some sections kept flicki...
Lawcomm Solicitors Services in Fareham, Whiteley & London: Neil Woolgar qualified back in 1982, David Roper in 1991, and Kelly Pragnell in 2010. Their official website that we've linked to above is www.lawcomm.co.uk and it's an https secure site. Even during the Covid-19 lock down everything worked as usual."< div> On Google fo...
Leech & Co Solicitors Ltd in Manchester: I'm positive that if you check up on some firms boasting decades of history, you'll find the solicitors currently employed there have far less experience than that. However, as I said, we had not seen them mentioned openly on any other solicitor's website before now. c...
Levins Solicitors in Huyton, Liverpool: We don't just gush about how wonderful they are with lots of exclamation marks. So if there are dozens of positive reviews about a legal company and all the negative reviews are about conveyancing - it's something to keep in mind. Levins Solicitors are also quoted many...
Lindsays Solicitors Offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee: The firm uses the singular name of 'Lindsays' (not Lindsay's) in all it's branding and it's official website is www.lindsays.co.uk as linked to above. Hopefully we've given you a few new resources to use with these articles and provided a few bits of information you m...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd: But it's certainly up there on the list. The site is https so should be secure for entering your personal information into their contact forms. But with a new branding setup, web address change, and expansion into more areas of corporate law - we thought it better to w...
Alexander JLO Solicitors - AJLO in London, Birmingham, Chelmsford, Norwich & Liverpool: But considering they deal with property matters, we again would recommend bookmarking . class="infoquote "... It currently lists over 50,000 firms, so being included is not particularly rare either. are accredited by the Law Society as Family Law specialists ..." <...
Mason Bullock CCJ & Employment Solicitors in Coventry: It's not just a side project either with the firm stating very clearly that it specialises in just three areas - CCJ removal, employment law, and it's related settlement agreements. The reason we were so keen though, was simply from one opening line on their website: ...
MGBe Legal Immigration Lawyers in London: Someone who knows the 'tricks' of the trade. If someone calls saying they are from your solicitor and need to discuss payments - you can always hang up and call the firm back on the official number you have on their documentation just to be sure.. Author of numerous article...
McEwan Fraser Legal Property Conveyancing in Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Inverness: However, one of the properties showed a possible selling margin of £60,000 difference between a high and low estimate. We tried it with a few of our own home addresses and the quotes were in the ball park. Neither of which would impress you enough to use their actual servic...
MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP in Bromley, Kent - Greater London:
Another type of scam going round right now is https: www.theguardian.com money 2020 jul 18 homebuyer-loses-300000-to-fraudsters-but-gets-it-back-after-we-step-in" targeting people trying to buy or sell a house< a> in order to get them to accidentally deposit money i...
NV Legal Ltd Personal Injury Solicitors in Watford: But you never know what's going to happen next so always be aware of where your communications are coming from and that no law firm should ask you to submit bank details via email.. They're mostly https: www.theguardian.com money 2019 aug 24 the-45000-deposit-for-our-first...
OJ Solicitors Ltd English & Romanian Solicitors in Glasgow: It is certainly not the case that the standard high street law firm is the best option in every scenario.
Unfortunately, in our opinion The Law Society of Scotland website is nowhere near as good as it's English Welsh counterpart when it comes to helping people with ...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London, UK: There are many wonderful firms without a single drop of publicity ink. OTS Solicitors is one such firm.
class="infoquote "Our team of Solicitors are dedicated to providing the best service to clients by catering to each and every client individually and specifically...
Reid Black Solicitors Ltd in Belfast, Antrim & Ballyclare: In this case, Reid Black do more than just have a-bit-of-expertise in Military Claims. Alongside Criminal Injuries, Untraced Drivers and Medical Negligence matters - Military Claims can take a long time, be less likely to suceed, and pay out much less for both the client and...
Penn Chambers Ltd - Solicitors in London:
class="infoquote "Established in 2008, finding our success from our direct approach to providing high-quality services based on years of experience, in a commercially sound, financially savvy and yet sympathetic way."< div>
This opening snippet from the Penn Chamb...
Pump Court Chambers Direct Access Barristers in London, Swindon & Winchester: That should make communication far easier , clearer, and provide a more personalised experience throughout the case.
class="infoquote "Recent changes in the law mean that members of the public, commercial organisations and non-commercial organisations can now instruct...
RD Costings Ltd - Criminal Injury Claims based in Portishead: 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...
Redwood Collections Ltd - Debt Recovery Services based in Croydon: Redwood Collections was created in 2009 and states it has helped over 17,000 clients so far. So if you do see negative reviews of any debt collection company - pay attention to whether they just happen to be the person that ended up having to pay the debt - i.e. Our typical...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister & Mediator in Barnet, Greater London:
If you are thinking of using the Direct Access route, then make sure you enter that term as part of your phrase on search engines to avoid wasting time. Direct Access is something barristers have to apply for and be qualified to offer.
class="infoquote "Robin is ...
RSR Law Ltd in Croydon: Then in the next it was "First Aid. Confused? Well, take this example. Advice. Which is neither clear or helpful.
So we'll stick with facts to draw conclusions. Specialist Solicitor = Success" relating to personal injuries. Whilst their desire to write is commendable an...
SBW Law Ltd - Solicitors in Liverpool: Those are two different setups. But there are some statements which may say more than you think. Conditional fee arrangement are most common amongst more difficult cases such as medical negligence claims against the NHS or severe life-changing injuries. At this office the ra...
Serious Law LLP - Serious Injury Law Solicitors in Bolton: Nothing to do with our services at all. Plus they list their opening hours as 8am-10pm 7 days a week . Even if it's just to complain about missing contact details on individual team pages or a lack of expected website functionality. Typically if the firm's website does not ...
Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP in London, Finchley & Hatfield: Always be aware that a law firm should never ask you about bank details in an email if you get one. This is important because some firms will use less-than-transparent (to put it mildly) wording to describe their experience when trying to sell you their services on their web...
Taborns Legal Business - Will Taborn Ltd in London: Never more than a handful of law practices within the same area covering the same case types. Otherwise all we would list for you are the large brand named multi-office firms - and that too is not always the best fit or even available in the more rural areas. On those occasi...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd - Road Accident Claims in Salford, Manchester: This includes leaders in their field and companies that could simply be considered 'less ordinary'. (Generally known as 'resellers'.) Those firms that cold-call you asking about an accident you've never had also have websites trying to get the same information from you. We...
The Johnson Partnership Solicitors in Nottingham, Sheffield, Doncaster & Derby: I would usually have zero notes other than the person's name, and have to wing it during interviews.
class="infoquote "We have experienced teams of criminal defence solicitors in all of our offices based in Nottingham, Sheffield, Derby, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Doncas...
Thorpe Wilson Ltd Solicitors in Rochdale: We saw a review recently where someone left a one star rating for an Immigration firm for refusing to take on their Divorce case.
class="infoquote "Good company and they sorted everything like they should"
"Excellent service, felt our issues were heard and met" ...
TSABI Ltd - The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc in Southall, London & Slough: So just pay attention to where you are and what you type in. They also weren't averse to listing some of the more common fees actually on their site. So that's noteable to us. Their website is https secure so should be fine for entering your personal details on the contact...
White Collar Legal & Admin Ltd in Wirral, Merseyside:
class="infoquote "Philip also attends Court representing both Claimants and Defendants on average 53 times a year."< div>
This is another standout sentence to bear in mind, as there are varying types of experience when it comes to law. oh!" about:
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