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): We've even seen negative reviews by the clients on the opposite side of a sale purchase who have been told that it's the other person's solicitor that's causing the problem. We also hold CQS, The Law Society's quality mark for legal experts in buying or selling property and ...
ULA Solicitors Ltd - Law Firm in London: The simplest way to check on the expertise, experience, and 'specialist' status of any firm is through their local law society. The main concept that stood out to us was that the firm certainly lives up to it's claims about not shying away from more complex cases . Having a...
Trust Inheritance Ltd Wills, Probate & Estate Planning in Weston-Super-Mare:
A quick note on navigation as the firm uses two quite generic words in the branding - i.e. "Estate Planning" firms on the other hand do much more.
With Wills & Probate though, this idea of specialism goes an extra step further. We've talked a lot before about speci...
Trojan Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London: The firm we're writing about today, Trojan Solicitors, first stood out to us as being an Immigration specialist.
class="infoquote "In the fast changing, increasingly complex and highly politicised area of Immigration Law ..."< div>
Again as a new firm who have c...
The Legal Practice Ltd - Solicitors in Rickmansworth & Wembley Park, Greater London:
The official website is www.thelegalpractice.co.uk but again, www.thelegalpractice.com is owned by a different firm. Many of the articles we write will focus on an individual law office in order to make comparisons, clarifications, and provide tips on how to research a...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd - Road Accident Claims in Salford, Manchester: The branding is not nearly as important as the actual solicitor assigned to your case.
class="infoquote "With almost 10 years' of experience in personal injury law, we understand that no two cases are the same."< div>
The firm's local newspaper, Salford Now, http...
Taylor Price Legal Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Levenshulme (Manchester): We will try to show you how to find information between the lines and point out research resources you may not be aware of. knowing all the loopholes).
If you typically just look at star ratings when researching companies online, it's something you shouldn't do when i...
Stowe Family Law - Divorce Solicitors in Harrogate, York, Beverley & Other Locations: If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 543705 stowe-family-law-llp" check out their pages< a> you can see office addresses, contact details, languages spoken, etc. All other variants we checked such as www.stowe.co.uk were for totally different services too so ...
Rose Fendlen Law - Solicitors in Wigan (Formerly LRose Law): Housing Disrepair & Other Litigation"< div>
Statements like these on various law firm's websites can be confusing because it doesn't seem to equate that you can be a 'specialist' of a such a long list of anything.
Another resource to help with this is one we fre...
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.
class="infoquote "Specialising in a wide range of practice areas including commercial litigation, company commercial, residential pr...
Springle & Co Solicitors Estate Planning Wills & Probate in North Shields, Tyne and Wear: Ensuring the advice you get is from a qualified and experienced professional is important too. There are cheaper alternatives which may work fine for some. Springle and Company have a page on their site https: springleandco.co.uk our-fees " listing itemised fees< a>.
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Smith and Graham Solicitors in Hartlepool, Peterlee and Middlesbrough:
Smith and Graham have 'Team' pages with profiles of their staff including experience and areas of practice which is great and something we always encourage the firms we deal with to create. There is no ampersand in domain names so www.smith&graham.co.uk can't exist an...
Simper Law Ltd - Solicitors in Norwich & Great Yarmouth: For example several are related litigation matters (e.g. The most common error we spotted was people searching for 'simple law ltd' and related variants. For some reason, thousands of people have sent tens of thousands of pounds of their money to the fraudsters bank account ...
The Search Bureau from Premier Searches Ltd - UK Conveyancing Search Provider: However, as already mentioned at the outset of this piece, there often isn't as much to go on when it comes to service providers to the law firms we often write about. Also most of the fraud involved in conveyancing transactions tend to focus on actual buyer seller clients o...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister & Mediator in Barnet, Greater London: Direct Access is something barristers have to apply for and be qualified to offer. Most companies will more likely have some vague references to greatness, such as 'we are one of the leading award-winning law firms in the area!' . When the new rules came in, they were not s...
Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors in Hackney: However the term is being used correctly in this instance. The https: cyclingsolicitors.com " Cycling Solicitors< a> website mentioned above is the same firm, just showcasing their extra interest in cycling related injury claims . If a firm tries to charge you to discu...
Richmond Legal Ltd Solicitors in Middleton, Manchester:
class="infoquote "We can offer fixed fees if you are not eligible for legal aid"< div>
This is another statement that might look perfectly normal to most people but really stands out to us. This is especially true for Personal Injury and Immigration cases. The ...
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. For a start, Military Claims are a much rarer case type to be taken on by most personal injury handling firms. So how do Reid Black Solicitors stac...
RD Costings Ltd - Criminal Injury Claims based in Portishead: Whilst we are unable to change the past ... Commercial Law is another area where a niche firm is often sought rather than general practice. For others you may be better off with a Direct Access barrister to save some time and money. For example the solicitor you might choose...
Pump Court Chambers Direct Access Barristers in London, Swindon & Winchester: secretaries and other support staff."< div>
That brief but good description found https: en.wikipedia.org wiki Barristers_in_England_and_Wales" on Wikipedia< a> indicates that, much more than with a solicitor, you are working with an individual barrister within a gro...
Penerley Commercial Lawyers in Islington, London: But at the moment, Google is listing their hours as closed all weekend. Unfortunately this has not really spread to law firms as much as everywhere else. There were all positive , but none of the reviews had left any useful comments. We've been trying to find some of these ...
Pacific Law Estate Planning Solicitors in Manchester: We've been working with law firms for over twenty years now and some have confided that many negative reviews on their pages have been from people they beat in a case. Don't just rely on star ratings. We put you first."< div>
The most common piece of research people do ...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London, UK: OTS Solicitors are signed to The Law Society of England & Wales which is an excellent resource . One last word from the firm's site:
class="infoquote "Our aim is to provide cost-effective legal expertise, with an exceptional level of service, and a genuine service tai...
OneLaw Chambers - Solicitors, Barristers & Advocates in London: Scammers email property buying clients telling them the bank details for their deposit has changed and apparently thousands of people have simply sent the money to the fraudster's bank account without bothering to check with their solicitor first . Something to keep in mind...
My Law Matters from Fentimans - Solicitors in Wolverhampton, Manchester, Solihull & Waltham Cross: Because whilst many negative comments can be totally unhelpful (e.g.
class="infoquote "Our expert team are at your disposal at a time which suits you, enabling you to minimise the stress and disruption legal problems can bring to your life."< div>
The firm does ...
Milners Law LLP Solicitors in Leeds, Harrogate & Pontefract:
The best way we recommend to research any legal service provider is through their local law society website if possible. They also handle commercial matters including Business Disputes, Commercial Property, GDPR and Construction Litigation.
There is further inform...
Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors in Bargoed & Tredomen, Wales: But to be honest, it's not as if any law firm is ever going to claim being the opposite (i.e. However this offer seems to be for Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors' whole case range.
class="infoquote "Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors is committed to providing the best ...
MGBe Legal Immigration Lawyers in London: Also, MGBe Legal is the trading name of M&G Bettiga Limited if you see it come up during your own research. It's not hard to imagine in the circumstances where, rather than seeking out the heavy resources of a huge general practice firm, people want someone who deals with th...
Mckie Legal Solicitors in Penrith & St Helens (ConnectMeToaLawyer Ltd):
It's also far more common to get misleading reviews about solicitors because a lot of times any case will have a winner, and a loser. Mckie Legal is named after the firm's director Andrew Ian McKie. So this seemingly innocuous sentence is actually worth quite a few br...
McEwan Fraser Legal Property Conveyancing in Edinburgh, Aberdeen & Inverness: Both in text and with little badges further down the page. That's quite unheard of. You would think these days that even 'stuffy', 'living-in-the-past', 'antiquated' (three words we've seen used numerous times by reviewers on the matter) people like solicitors could get thei...
Mason Bullock CCJ & Employment Solicitors in Coventry: Did that mean we skipped over the usual checks? Of course not. So it's always a good idea to bookmark sites like this if you plan on returning and never discuss payments or bank details via emai.. The main difference of the UK compensation process vs the US is that being i...
Mackenzie Jones Solicitors in St Asaph, Menai Bridge & Chester: But hopefully you'll be able to check up on what prior clients thought of the firm's communication and explanation skills through third party forums like https: www.google.com search?q=Mackenzie+Jones+Solicitor+chester&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926GB926&sxsrf=ALiCzsalznzwgcAibs6C...
Lindsays Solicitors Offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee:
The Law Society of England & Wales also https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 506346 lindsays" has a page on this firm< a>. Search engines seem to bring up the correct firm no matter what variants we used.
class="infoquote "They always kept me informed an...
Levins Solicitors in Huyton, Liverpool:
If you read the actual comments for a firm rather than just checking star ratings, you can usually tell the people with a genuine complaint versus those that just wanted things to have gone a bit quicker. A last word from the firm's website referring to the pros of usi...
Lefevres Law Firm - Litigation Solicitors in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen: Lefevres do have some bits of customer feedback on their website. Typically these are called 'testimonials' rather than 'reviews' because they are always the most positive comments they have on file and have usually been obtained through a customer feedback form or questio...
KRS Estate Planning Ltd - Will & Probate Advice in Leicester:
Thanks to creation of the internet, law firms are able to select the case types they are good at and then find clients from further afield - rather than having to cater to their local population. There's also Alternative Business Structures (ABS) allowing companies to ...
Khan Law - Raees Khan Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow:
A firm can be a specialist by targeting just single area of law.
Despite the range of other 'Khan' law firms, this firm focuses on Personal Injury which doesn't have as much risk as things such as Property matters. It may have nothing to do with the practice of l...
JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd in Manchester:
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The first resource people normally turn to when researching any service provider are prior customer reviews. So what can set one firm apart from another?
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Jacobs Law Solicitors:
class="infoquote "Our lawyers are friendly and approachable, an important trait when dealing with client matters."< div>
Again, this is something practically every law firm will say.
One thing we're very keen on is firms having profile pages of their staff i...
Howe + Co Solicitors in Brentford, London:
You can even see qualification dates of the lawyers working at the firm.
The firm did have testimonials on their website as well but at the time of us viewing they were stuffed into a tiny video-style playback box near the bottom of pages. This can sometimes end...
HooperHyde Business Law Solicitors in Solihull: But these days with the number of self employed people rising exponentially - we've also seen a huge rise in people wanting a specialist business legal advisor that can deal with small businesses effectively. It's very common. Sometimes you don't need a local firm. They are ...
Hill House Chambers - Barristers Based in London: There are accountants that can help with tax law matters, budget will writing firms, paralegal services, and so on. So the fact this company receives praise from both direct public clients as well as other law firms that have used them to handle their own cases - is certai...
Hawkridge & Company - Hawk Law Solicitors in Gillingham, Medway:
This is important to note because over the past few years https: www.moneysavingexpert.com shopping stop-scams " thousands of people have handed over millions of pounds< a> to fraudsters. Very often a bunch of the negative reviews will be from the client of the ot...
Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents in Clarkston & Mount Florida, Glasgow: 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.. Obviously there will be people trying a wide variety of close-but-not-quite attempts such as fultons-solicitors or fultonssolicitors. (10x...
Frazer Coogans Ltd - Solicitors in Ayr, Prestwick & Glasgow: Because we're dealing with property matters is increasingly important to ensure you are using the correct websites and communication options. Even when things are completely outside the control of the solicitor, clients will often leave negative comments on review boards. ...
Fair Result Ltd Divorce Settlement Mediation Services in Leicester: We try to provide information, reviews, and comparisons across not just a range of solicitors - but across a range of alternative options too. When we searched for 'fair result', 'fair result divorce' and 'fair result leicester' we got back mostly news stories about random h...
Education Law Service Ltd - Special Educational Needs Lawyer in London:
We've seen quite a few lawyers offering a full hour's face to face consultation to discuss your case for free. Some will offer a reduced fee for the first consultation, up to a third of the usual hourly cost. Therefore the number of firms helping in those areas are muc...
Dylan Nair Solicitors Ltd in Preston, Lancashire:
A quick note on navigation. We obviously read through dozens of law firm's websites every day and the similarties between the content and the claims each make to set themselves apart as 'unique' can often end up blurring for us. So much so that when people search for r...
DV Solicitors (Deo Volente Legal LLP) Law Firm in Bedford & Luton: You may get a forty year experienced solicitor from a law firm brand that started up yesterday. The official website we link to above is www.dvsolicitors.com and at the time of writing www.dvsolicitors.co.uk also redirects you there. If you've used our site before or read ...
DisrepairClaim.co.uk - Housing Disrepair Claims Company based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire: There are several good reasons for this, but the main one being that the majority of them simply take your details and sell them on to the highest bidder.
We've also detailed in other articles just how many high street solicitor firms also take a 25% cut of all compensa...
David Stinson & Co Personal Injury Solicitors in Aylesford, Kent:
class="infoquote "David Stinson & Co specialise in personal injury claims for clients across the Kent area."< div>
Whilst many case types might be listed on any personal injury firm's website such as slips trips, workplace injuries, car accidents, etc. They provi...
Cooks Solicitors in Newcastle under Lyme & Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire: Then their client goes on the web to complain about it.
class="infoquote "We have been in business in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire for over twenty-eight years"< div>
This may not seem like an important sentence to most regular clients looking for a solicito...
Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd in Southampton, Liverpool & Havant: Unlike restaurants, hairdressers, or local pubs - legal professional get negative reviews for the strangest things . Testimonials always look different from third party review site comments because they are typically a page of positive-only messages from people the firm hav...
CEL Solicitors in Liverpool - Housing Disrepair, Knotweed, & Data Breach Claims: Especially if this was the umpteenth law site you've visited today as they can start to appear unbelievably similar after a while. But no-one's perfect. For all we knew, by claiming to be 'featured' in these publications the firm could simply have purchased ad space in all o...
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: The age of the branding though whether pre or post QS signup is really unimportant though (in our opinion).
class="infoquote "QualitySolicitors Burton & Co based in Lincoln and Sleaford have a proud tradition of serving the people of Lincolnshire for over 200 years. Es...
Brown & Co Solicitors in Greenwich, London:
class="infoquote "Brown and Co Solicitors is an experienced firm of solicitors offering legal services across a number of specialisms."< div>
This may sound like a throw-away sentence which every legal practice states (i.e. However it's amazing just how similar ...
Branch Austin McCormick LLP Solicitors in Mayfair, London: yeah. As mentioned before, such a huge range of seasoned professionals mixed with fresh legs and ideas has not been seen by us in over twenty years of working with law firms. The firm uses the dot com which is more international with the official website being at www.branc...
BLZ Solicitors NIHL, PPI & Immigration Lawyers in Stockport: BLZ Ltd is the same firm, it's just their official Limited registered name. A last sales-pitchy statement from the firm's site:
class="infoquote "We are a friendly, approachable and professional firm that provides quality legal representation to those that need it."< d...
Bilkus and Boyle Solicitors & Estate Agents in Glasgow: A two hundred year old brand name doesn't have a two hundred year old solicitor dealing with cases.
Sadly so many firms use terms such as 'modern', 'friendly', 'established', etc.
class="infoquote "Providing quality legal services since 1980"< div>
Consideri...
Bell Lax Ltd - Solicitors in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham: 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 they thought about doing it, then quickly gave up.
class="infoquote "we offer, no win, no fee for ...
Beers LLP - Solicitors in Kingsbridge & Plymouth, Devon: However, we ran a poll last year and only 8% of you responded that you trust company provided testimonials. But we didn't see such a solicitor named as working at this firm. If you've read through any of our other law firm cover articles, you'll hopefully know that we do our...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services in Whitley Bay, Newcastle: a close relationship with all our local responsible authorities ensures any issues or representations received towards our applications can often be resolved through mediation and working in partnership with said responsible authorities."< div>
Usually we point people ...
Argue & Co Legal - Allan Argue Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow: We've seen conveyancing firms with over a thousand reviews on a single review site. This splinter naming isn't nearly as prolific amongst other areas of law such as divorce or crime. The Scottish site has https: www.lawscot.org.uk news-and-events legal-news allan-argue-lau...
Antony Hodari Solicitors Housing Disrepair Specialists in Manchester: We try to cover a range of solutions for legal problems including having general practice firms, specialists, barristers, and non-law-firm services as well. They even provide the qualification dates of any solicitors working at the firm which helps to highlight whether a f...
Aconveyancing Ltd in Tamworth & Shirley (Solihull):
class="infoquote "We also provide expert legal advice ..."< div>
If the firm you're checking out is located in England Wales then they will most likely be registered with the main Law Society for that area. There really isn't anything for them to cover up to begi...
ABS Lawyers Ltd Solicitors in Corby & Maghull, Liverpool: The official website we link to is www.abslawyers.co.uk and at the moment www.abslawyers.com is owned by a completely different firm in the US. Just narrowly beating Welsh. (You get the idea.) Therefore if you see lower number such as 'combined experience of 10 years' - that...
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