Finding Legal Help When Things Go Wrong
Even though we've just said that you don't actually have to pay an accident claim solicitor for services and that no-one would use their insurer's appointed solicitor to sue the insurance company - there is a side to legal assistance cover provided by insurers that might actually be useful. Again, not many people bother to read what's actually included or even check when stuff comes up. But for most policies the included legal assistance will cover non-car related matters as well such as home insurance claims, family law, business disputes and more. There will obviously be limits but make sure to read up and check just in case. They'll be betting on most people not noticing, as I'm sure that if everyone in the UK starting phoning up for free legal help every time they needed it - the insurer/solicitor would go bust pretty quick:
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Youngs Solicitors - Young & Co Solicitors Ltd in Longton (Stoke on Trent): But even variants such www.youngandco.co.uk are owned by different firms. This is so our clients are aware of how much we are going to charge them in from the outset."< div>.
class="infoquote "Our main office is in Longton. The firm doesn't list testimonials on their w...
ULA Solicitors Ltd - Law Firm in London: Reading between the lines, it's probably safe to assume they have confidence in their expertise and experience to handle such tasks. There is a difference (and we'll tell you how to spot it below) between a firm where all the solicitors try to handle all the various case typ...
Trust Inheritance Ltd Wills, Probate & Estate Planning in Weston-Super-Mare: For many case types people absolutely want a niche firm such as for Motor Offences, Immigration or Debt Recovery. They can certainly help.
With Wills & Probate though, this idea of specialism goes an extra step further.
So why might you pick a niche firm like Tru...
Trojan Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London: As mentioned before - when it comes to Immigration these days it's probably a very good idea to make sure your lawyer is a specialist. In those ancient times before the years began starting with a 20--, firms typically were either general practice or were known for a singl...
The Legal Practice Ltd - Solicitors in Rickmansworth & Wembley Park, Greater London:
For The Legal Practice they show a range of experience levels from Navjiven Mandair who qualified as a solicitor in 1997, right up to Dharmini Somani who just qualified back in 2018. If someone calls saying they are from your solicitor's office and you don't recognise t...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd - Road Accident Claims in Salford, Manchester: So don't discuss bank details or payments via email, and if someone phones you up saying they are from the firm you are using feel free to hang up and call back on the official number you know already works. The official site we link to above is www.theinjurysolicitor.com an...
Taylor Price Legal Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Levenshulme (Manchester):
There's others listed too making a good mix of wise old gurus alongside younger fresh legs and ideas . These should ideally - according to us - have a photo, brief work history, a list of specialties, and direct contact information. that handles nothing by those case t...
Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd in Southampton, Liverpool & Havant: That's why even though the public review system has massive flaws, if used well it can still be a great tool .
However the best website for getting information about a law firm in our opinion is The Law Society of England & Wales. We have over 200 firms in our datab...
Stenfield Ltd Solicitors in Norwich & Harrow on the Hill, London: A real mix of ages, genders, experience, and expertise that you would hope to see at any general practice firm you might be considering. We did see a couple of complaints. Sometimes it has taken only a single email from a scammer to convince people to pay their house deposit...
Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP in London, Finchley & Hatfield: 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. Julian Cohen and Mark Feldmann for example qualified back in 1975 an...
Springle & Co Solicitors Estate Planning Wills & Probate in North Shields, Tyne and Wear: The official website is www.springleandco.co.uk which we link to above, with www.springleandco.com not currently owned by anyone. you get the picture. By reducing wasteful overheads, we can improve personal client service. Every client relationship matters to us."< div>
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The Search Bureau from Premier Searches Ltd - UK Conveyancing Search Provider:
class="infoquote "Using our powerful IT systems we are able to streamline the whole search process so you can not only view completed searches can you can monitor the progress of each case in real time and see exactly when you will get it back."< div>
The firm wa...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister & Mediator in Barnet, Greater London: We've seen several consultants and sole practitioners advertising themselves as handling everything from Family Law, to Personal Injury, plus Immigration and more. Originally you would have to hire a solicitor and spend time and money informing them of your case. Whilst ther...
Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors in Hackney: Depending on the type of case you may also be able to receive 100% of your compensation as well. So take it from us, the majority of those 200-year-plus establishment claims are tenuous at best and often just plain misleading. It boggles the mind. So when a firm lists sever...
Richmond Legal Ltd Solicitors in Middleton, Manchester: 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. Also the majority of scams against clients of law firms right now tend to https: www.todayslegalcyberrisk.co.uk main-news solicit...
Reid Black Solicitors Ltd in Belfast, Antrim & Ballyclare: This is a great move because as our poll last year showed, most people don't trust company created testimonial pages anyway. Many firms will either charge a reduced price for an initial interview or give you a very reduced free section of time such as 15-30 mins before sta...
RD Costings Ltd - Criminal Injury Claims based in Portishead:
Quite often a personal injuries practice will state no win, no fee and leave it at that. Lastly, when you search for the "rd costings" name on a search engine there is a company website at www.rcostings.co.uk for a different firm. Assisting Victims of Violent Crimes, D...
Pump Court Chambers Direct Access Barristers in London, Swindon & Winchester: you'll see that many of the reviews are about specific individuals rather than a whole firm.
Always make sure you are on the correct website and never discuss payments or bank details via email.
It does however cause some thought to have to be given when researc...
Penerley Commercial Lawyers in Islington, London: We really don't advise relying on any individual ratings about a company without accompanying explained reasons. Whilst people are very happy to talk about their local hairdresser online - they are not so eager to discuss their divorce, bankruptcy or probate litigation. Un...
Pacific Law Estate Planning Solicitors in Manchester:
When reviews do start popping up though (and even in your searches of any company really) you need to take the time to read through comments. This is because whilst people are very happy to jump online and give praise about their new toaster - they are less likely to ru...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London, UK: So stars don't always reflect real position in the minds of previous clients. If you search for news articles on any company it's good idea to make sure to put "quotation marks" around the name of the firm otherwise you will get a lot of irrelvant pieces. There are many wo...
OneLaw Chambers - Solicitors, Barristers & Advocates in London: However if you consider there are well over a hundred thousand law practices nationwide it does make the honour a little more niche. That's understandable to us at least, and it's probably for the very reasons we pointed out their differences above.
Personally, we th...
NV Legal Ltd Personal Injury Solicitors in Watford: The information they provide just regular users is quite extensive in comparison including alternative trading names used by a firm, extra contact details, and often the expertise and experience of every solicitor within the practice. In other words, someone has been injured...
My Law Matters from Fentimans - Solicitors in Wolverhampton, Manchester, Solihull & Waltham Cross: That's probably why only 8% of you voted last year that you took company website testimonials into consideration when evaluating a service provider. Fentimans https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk organisation offices 1229 fentiman-legal-limited" are registered with< a> The...
Milners Law LLP Solicitors in Leeds, Harrogate & Pontefract:
Normally such testimonials are created from written responses to some sort of customer service feedback form. For one thing, there will often be far less reviews of law firms. People recieve emails from scammers stating the bank details they need to pay their house dep...
Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors in Bargoed & Tredomen, Wales: So if there are very few or even zero reviews for a firm - that shouldn't be taken as a negative sign. For example, we did see one negative review about this firm on Google where the person gave one star and said simply that it was bad customer service. But to be honest, it'...
MGBe Legal Immigration Lawyers in London:
Not so with MGBe as https: mgbelegal.com blog " their blog section< a> articles seem genuinely intended to help with titles such as 'The 7 most common errors in EEA Permanent Residence applications' and 'For better or worse: the new Legal Aid Immigration contrac...
Mckie Legal Solicitors in Penrith & St Helens (ConnectMeToaLawyer Ltd):
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That's useful because even if you can't find a lot of information or reviews on the trading name - you can often find such on the firm behind it. If you scroll to the bottom of th...
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.
There is a huge amount of public reviews about the firm though. To keep over 4 stars takes some doing. If anyone emails or phones you about payments...
Mason Bullock CCJ & Employment Solicitors in Coventry: When many of those clients would have benefited more from psychological treatement assessment or negotiating better coverage for future medical bills.
However with Mason Bullock Solicitors we were actually very eager to get them on to the network from the start. There...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd:
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. That's why people use now whether researchin...
Lindsays Solicitors Offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee:
We've seen much worse though, such as a Criminal Law firm with a negative review for refusing to listen to someone about their divorce case. Most law firms are signed up to a national, county, or town law society organisation. But for now remember never to discuss pay...
Levins Solicitors in Huyton, Liverpool: The official website of the firm is www.levinslaw.co.uk as linked to above.
The firm do cover a wide range of legal matters including Civil Litigation, Conveyancing, Crime, Divorce, Personal Injury, Wills and Probate. A last word from the firm's website referring to t...
Lefevres Law Firm - Litigation Solicitors in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen:
For example, Lefevres are listed in the Legal Aid board database.
class="infoquote "We strive to learn everything about your company and truly get to know you on a personal level, so as to serve you as a trusted advisor for the long term."< div>
The first p...
KRS Estate Planning Ltd - Will & Probate Advice in Leicester: 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.
Thanks to creation of the internet, law firms are able to select the case types they ar...
Khan Law - Raees Khan Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow: If you've already been through a dozen websites of law firms today, you'll probably have been disheartened at just how similar they all seem. Read the actual comments. Usually that's because they have individual solicitors within the firm that handle specific case types.
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JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd in Manchester: that they are 'living in the past', 'unfriendly', or 'inexperience'). That means each will only be covered very briefly, but hopefully it will provide a greater selection of things that might help when trying to decide between the various law firms available for your case....
Jacobs Law Solicitors: You'd think that would be a universal trait by now, but it's not.
So for Jacobs to be unafraid in posting such a "new" start date in the face of such an "old" industry - well that really stands out to us as genuinely being a modern day law office. Sadly buying or selli...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Ltd in Newry and Dublin: Over the past 20+ years of working with law firms we've seen so many negative reviews for firms that were clearly unwarranted or simply about the wrong firm.
class="infoquote "Everyone within our practice has a commitment to understand the needs of our clients and to ...
Howe + Co Solicitors in Brentford, London: A wide range of very seasoned, experienced practitioners alongside plenty of young blood to keep things fresh and moving forward. So it's always best to actually read the comments themselves and company responses if available rather than just flicking through star ratings....
HooperHyde Business Law Solicitors in Solihull: The official site we link to above is www.hooperhyde.com with www.hooperhyde.co.uk not currently redirecting you there. Motoring Offences and Divorce clients have tended to be that way for many years. There are national, county, city, and even case specific societies which l...
Hawkridge & Company - Hawk Law Solicitors in Gillingham, Medway: They involve sometimes lengthy co-operation and the maintenance of certain high standards . It's definitely something to keep in mind whenever you're checking for reviews about any firm that handles property matters. But when anything goes wrong, they get the blame. These...
Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents in Clarkston & Mount Florida, Glasgow: They then tell the buyer that the house deposit needs to be paid into a different bank account. If you've read through some of our other review articles you'll probably have noticed that we praise the good amount of publicly available information about law firms in England &...
Frazer Coogans Ltd - Solicitors in Ayr, Prestwick & Glasgow: That's probably why independent review forums such as
Fieldfisher LLP Personal Injury Solicitors in Manchester & London:
We therefore think there may be some confusion with the firm's name when people are searching to leave reviews. However, there was a weird selection of negative comments spanning a one month period on one of the independent review sites. But according to our poll last...
Fair Result Ltd Divorce Settlement Mediation Services in Leicester: On top of that they provide free work up front to show what they can do and then fixed fee agreements. The official site we link to above is www.fair-result.co.uk with none of the usual variants such as www.fair-result.com, www.fairresult.co.uk or www.fairresult.com redirect...
Education Law Service Ltd - Special Educational Needs Lawyer in London:
However there are some areas of law where the number of options simply aren't there. This is either because the types of cases are so niche, so complicated, or possibly not the most lucrative for a those considering their company's bottom line. Another statement on thei...
Dylan Nair Solicitors Ltd in Preston, Lancashire: That's not something we are so keen on. As you can see from the snippets above, they're largely quite positive . Don't despair.
class="infoquote "very responsive and helpful in every way"
"I eventually pulled out of the purchase, but was not charged any extra,...
DV Solicitors (Deo Volente Legal LLP) Law Firm in Bedford & Luton: For motor offence court cases you may be better off with a Direct Access barrister. Such as:
class="infoquote "have gone beyond and above in all areas of our transaction"
"an immense pleasure to acquire your proficient services"
"carried out all the required ...
DisrepairClaim.co.uk - Housing Disrepair Claims Company based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire:
class="infoquote "Are You Suffering With Damp, Mould And Other Repair Issues?"< div>
DisrepairClaim.co.uk though are none of the above. The first means that if your case loses you have nothing to pay. To summarise previous articles, there are three main types of...
Simper Law Ltd - Solicitors in Norwich & Great Yarmouth: So what are previous clients saying about the firm? The snippets above are from testimonials posted on the firm's own website.
At first glance Simper Law looks like a regular high street style setup with standard offices and several staff. The case range seems quite ...
DFA Law LLP Solicitors in Northampton: and they were all much like these snippets above. A 40-year established firm might stick you with a 1-year experienced solicitor, and a 1-year established firm might have a 40-year experience partner on staff. Sometimes when researching a company online people tend to just l...
David Stinson & Co Personal Injury Solicitors in Aylesford, Kent: It should be pointed out though that a good solicitor taking 25% of your £5000 settlement is still a better option than a less aggressive solicitor that takes a 0% cut of a £1500 settlement. The latter means that you have nothing to pay whether your case wins or...
Cooks Solicitors in Newcastle under Lyme & Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire: No really, firms claiming they are three hundred years old as if that gives them some sort of bonus experience above other firms really winds us up. It also means you've got the best of both worlds - i.e.
Of course, the first point of call for most people are the prior...
CEL Solicitors in Liverpool - Housing Disrepair, Knotweed, & Data Breach Claims: We've seen someone leave a negative review about a Criminal Law firm for refusing to take on their Divorce. We should know - we've been flicking through dozens of them daily for over twenty years
class="infoquote "CEL Solicitors combines the high-end service of a lar...
Catteralls Solicitors in Wakefield: But the reason we point out how easy it is to get mixed up is because this firm deal with Property Conveyancing matters https: www.lawgazette.co.uk news police-warn-solicitors-about-phishing-scam 5106839.article" which have been the increasing target of scammers for years...
QualitySolicitors Burton & Co in Lincoln & Sleaford: QualitySolicitors firms are independent law firms that share the aim of providing clients the highest standards of legal expertise combined with exceptional customer service."< div>
That official explanation of what it means didn't help us much initially either. It's ac...
Branch Austin McCormick LLP Solicitors in Mayfair, London: Still with the varied searches we tried, the firm did pop up correctly in the search results.
When you accidentally type the wrong address into your browser bar , you can be taken to a fake site easily. There were also several comments about how fast the process had b...
BLZ Solicitors NIHL, PPI & Immigration Lawyers in Stockport:
class="infoquote "We specialise in data breach claims, noise induced hearing loss, immigration and PPI"< div>
This, however, is a far more telling sentence from the BLZ Solicitors' website. That's why we have general practice firms along side specialists - as wel...
Bilkus and Boyle Solicitors & Estate Agents in Glasgow: Typically one side is always unhappy at how a sale has gone either due to timescale, delays with finance, things popping up during the search phase, and so on. For example, the review we saw criticising a Criminal Law firm for refusing to take on someone's Divorce case. Or t...
Beers LLP - Solicitors in Kingsbridge & Plymouth, Devon: It's true the majority of firms we write about are going to receive fairly positive comments because we've already vetted them for addition to our search database. If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 462733 beers-llp" check out the page< a> for the firm yo...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services in Whitley Bay, Newcastle: Certainly we can't think of one that's more niche off-hand, but we've been doing this for over twenty years now. In fact, an experienced accountant could cost much less yet be far more effective . You can always hang up and ring back on the phone number you know is correct ...
Argue & Co Legal - Allan Argue Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow: We promise to make the process as easy and efficient as we possibly can for you."< div>
It's true that even with the huge range of options available to people these days such as Direct Access barristers or no win no fee arrangements (plus a host of television adverts ov...
APS Legal & Associates Ltd - Will Advisors and Assured Probate Services: No hard-sell, very professional."< div>
However, each of these testimonials is often not tagged regarding which advisor they are talking about.
class="infoquote "In this unregulated environment, we have aligned ourselves with the Institute of Professional Will Wri...
Antony Hodari Solicitors Housing Disrepair Specialists in Manchester: Those are the obvious targets for fraud. To us that's a bit of a cheat. They even provide the qualification dates of any solicitors working at the firm which helps to highlight whether a firm is exaggerating their experience claims.
The issue with related domains not...
Aconveyancing Ltd in Tamworth & Shirley (Solihull): The majority are positive comments, and by some considerable margin too.
The official site we link to above is www.aconveyancing.com with www.aconveyancing.co.uk redirecting you there no problem. But if any issues come up - you may end up having to switch to a more wid...
ABS Lawyers Ltd Solicitors in Corby & Maghull, Liverpool: Sometimes based on just a couple of official looking emails telling them to suddenly switch to paying their huge house deposit into a completely different bank account. There should therefore be no confusion there, but currently most of the common error typo variations we ...
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