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): The only negative comments we saw related to the length of time a house sale took. So what key points stood out about the Young's setup?
class="infoquote "Our team consists of The Law Society accredited specialist Family law solicitors, Care solicitors, Criminal solic...
ULA Solicitors Ltd - Law Firm in London: We've seen a sad trend for solicitors to start listing their favourite foods and pet's names in their profiles. We recently found out consumers also actually enjoy such articles about previous cases a firm has handled.
class="infoquote "We provide out-of-hours assista...
Trust Inheritance Ltd Wills, Probate & Estate Planning in Weston-Super-Mare: Rather than simply only doing the one case types, specialists in Estate matters will often cover a much wider range of issues and provide a much wider range of services. But even with the potential search issues and other opportunities for scammers to fake official appeara...
Trojan Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London: Since Brexit, having a lawyer with genuine enthusiasm and care for immigration matters is not just beneficial - but practically imperative. There is a firm called 'trojan law ltd' also based in London, however we saw no apparent website for them to confuse matters. The maj...
The Legal Practice Ltd - Solicitors in Rickmansworth & Wembley Park, Greater London: But 'the law practice' or 'the lawyer practice' (if you've not remembered quite correctly) bring up different firms and lots of adverts. Also be aware that if a firm has more than one office there may be separate reviews for each.
class="infoquote "Whether you are an ...
The Injury Solicitor Ltd - Road Accident Claims in Salford, Manchester:
A quick note on navigation too as the firm uses generic terms for the website address which we've know to possible cause some problems where people mix up 'injury' with 'injuries' and 'solicitor' with 'lawyer'. This is quite justifiable in some circumstances such as fo...
Thaxted Legal Ltd Immigration Solicitors in Chislehurst, London: One - that they are interested in being generally helpful to people seeking such help.
class="infoquote "Immigration is our business but we strive to provide our services with integrity and care, and we build our professional relationships with clients and business pa...
Taylor Price Legal Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Levenshulme (Manchester): Another was a finalist for Best Professional in Business at the https: www.asianimage.co.uk news 17695705.8th-english-asian-business-awards-come-manchester " Asian Business Awards< a>. For example most firms will also claim a certain amount of experience, although not alw...
Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd in Southampton, Liverpool & Havant:
A quick note on navigation considering the varied brand names. So how do Swain & Co look on the public forums?
class="infoquote "I sent an email request and was answered with the hour as were my multiple replies"
"My son has been released from prison after ...
Summerfield Browne Solicitors in London, Birmingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Market Harborough & Leicester: How do you check that? The best resource we've found so far online is the website for The Law Society of England & Wales.
class="infoquote "We have a team of highly experienced lawyers who have all either, worked for leading law firms, or held senior positions in law ...
Stowe Family Law - Divorce Solicitors in Harrogate, York, Beverley & Other Locations: Some people believe they will be 'lost in the pack' at a large firm, whilst others think the weight of a large firm behind them will increase their changes of a successful outcome. So the name is still quite unique. You have to search for your specific local office to see re...
Stenfield Ltd Solicitors in Norwich & Harrow on the Hill, London:
In this instance Stenfield have solicitors on board that started their careers off in practically every decade over the past thirty years . We did see a couple of complaints. Whereas a new brand legal practice that popped up last month could have several well seasoned ...
Springle & Co Solicitors Estate Planning Wills & Probate in North Shields, Tyne and Wear: The big difference though, is that a wedding planner doesn't need to know how to make a cake. Plus with more and more people owning their own business that brings an entirely different set of issues to consider should you pass on while that business is running.
How d...
Smith and Graham Solicitors in Hartlepool, Peterlee and Middlesbrough:
class="infoquote "always available when we had questions"
"Fair priced and transparent in their dealings"
"responsive and always kept me updated with the developments of the case"< div>
The independent review boards were mainly positive comments like this...
Simper Law Ltd - Solicitors in Norwich & Great Yarmouth: They even kick off their website with a self-description of being "a small law firm of Norwich solicitors". 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. Personal Injury, Ne...
The Search Bureau from Premier Searches Ltd - UK Conveyancing Search Provider: Have they done so? We've found that most companies that service actual law firms tend not to have publicly available reviews about them online. Also most of the fraud involved in conveyancing transactions tend to focus on actual buyer seller clients of the actual law firms. ...
Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister & Mediator in Barnet, Greater London:
However there are many situations where going direct to a barrister yourself will definitely save you considerable time and cost . Most companies will more likely have some vague references to greatness, such as 'we are one of the leading award-winning law firms in th...
Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors in Hackney: However we've been reviewing law firms and trawling through dozens of such websites daily for over twenty years now . On this occasion there are two main solicitors: Michael MacDonald who qualified as a solicitor in 1993, and Thomas Reynolds who joined the legal profession ...
Richmond Legal Ltd Solicitors in Middleton, Manchester:
If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 2503 richmond-legal-ltd" check out the page for a firm< a> you can typically see alternative contact details, staff details, office locations, any alternate trading names, and most importantly - the expertise and qua...
Rose Fendlen Law - Solicitors in Wigan (Formerly LRose Law): The only difference will be on whether they charge you for running the case or provide something such as a no win, no fee agreement. The main reason they haven't managed to pick a legal help provider already is often an inability to tell each of them apart . Most people tha...
Reid Black Solicitors Ltd in Belfast, Antrim & Ballyclare: The majority are all like this and very positive. We'd like to share some bits and pieces that stood out.
One last clip from the firm's own website showing a further service they offer that many firms no longer help with:
class="infoquote "undertakes Legal Aid an...
RD Costings Ltd - Criminal Injury Claims based in Portishead: (Your solicitor needs to get paid, right?) However your solicitor will typically already be recovering their fees and expenses from the third party. It's not something most place high priority on getting. Lastly, when you search for the "rd costings" name on a search engine ...
Pump Court Chambers Direct Access Barristers in London, Swindon & Winchester: She really made me feel at ease"
"Matthew was on hand at all times and took me through each step of the process"
"Very impressed with the service provided by Richard Wayman during an employment tribunal"< div>
So make sure you really are happy with the barrist...
Penerley Commercial Lawyers in Islington, London: 'Less-stuffy' is a phrase we're seeing pop up more and more in newer firm's sales pitches about their services. We've been trying to find some of these specialists to add to our network and seeking those that seem to have a better grip on what type of legal professional to...
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. In fact there seems to be a very clear split in the industry, with one section of legal practices boasting ...
OTS Solicitors Ltd Immigration & Family Law in London, UK:
This sort of coverage can be a good sign of a firm's establishment as well. Even if someone phones you, you can always hang up and call your known solicitor back on the actual number you were originally given. It could have been for 'best logo design' for all we know. ...
OneLaw Chambers - Solicitors, Barristers & Advocates in London: Be careful when researching law firm reviews though.
class="infoquote "ONELAW CHAMBERS tailors its legal advice to meet the needs and requirements of its clients to ensure clients receive cost effective legal solutions with optimum and successful results."< div>
T...
My Law Matters from Fentimans - Solicitors in Wolverhampton, Manchester, Solihull & Waltham Cross: The client then handed tens of thousands of pounds over to the fraudster without bothering to check with the law firm whether the change was correct. In fact, that's something we always recommend when it comes to law firms. The largest conveyancing firm in the country has ov...
Milners Law LLP Solicitors in Leeds, Harrogate & Pontefract: After more than a week of reviewing specialist firms, we're getting back to a more regular general practice setup with Milners Solicitors. So how do the independent forums look?
class="infoquote "Professional, supportive and very responsive"
"have the kind of te...
Michael Leighton Jones Solicitors in Bargoed & Tredomen, Wales: Plus, how old the building or the brand name is has no bearing on the years of experience your solicitor may have . For some reason, those clients go right ahead and send tens of thousands of pounds to the fraudsters without checking with the solicitor if that email was gen...
Mckie Legal Solicitors in Penrith & St Helens (ConnectMeToaLawyer Ltd): However the concept of the local solicitors office has become something of an almost quaint, nostalgic notion these days when Amazon will bring you any item in the world within 24 hrs of you ordering it (usually whilst sat on the toilet).
Most scammers target law firm ...
Mason Bullock CCJ & Employment Solicitors in Coventry: It's a difficult area of work , often futile, and not a massively well paying job to take on. Typically we research a firm completely unbias and make the decision based on several factors such as their setup, case range, reviews, standing with the relevant regulatory bodi...
Mackenzie Jones Solicitors in St Asaph, Menai Bridge & Chester: Even better: get an actual solicitor with both. That's because there isn't much else for them to say. more than two decades later we have offices in Menai Bridge on Anglesey, St Asaph Business Park and Chester city centre with a vibrant team of twenty-three."< div>
The...
Hill House Chambers - Barristers Based in London:
One of the bigget moves was when the goverment started to allow Direct Access to barristers. So instantly this reduced the amount of time and cost for huge numbers of clients to have their case dealt with. For the case types they handle this isn't too much a concern....
Lindsays Solicitors Offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee: To get a wider view that includes negative opinions. Lindsays deal with many cross border issues so have to deal with English law when it comes to things such as property sales. The firm uses the singular name of 'Lindsays' (not Lindsay's) in all it's branding and it's offic...
Levins Solicitors in Huyton, Liverpool: 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.
class="infoquote "For over 30 years now we have continued to build our reputation and to provide legal services of th...
Lefevres Law Firm - Litigation Solicitors in Edinburgh, Glasgow & Aberdeen: (Their other locations being Glasgow and Edinburgh.) According to the Law Society of Scotland they are the same firm but for some reason the main Lefevres' law site states the Aberdeen office is at 70 Carden Place whilst everywhere else lists it as 40 Carden Place. www.lefev...
David Stinson & Co Personal Injury Solicitors in Aylesford, Kent: That should mean a considerable amount of experience to draw on. This is called a 'conditional fee arrangement' and is normally around 25% of your settlement.
class="infoquote "very professional and got my wife not only the money but the outcome she deserved"
"My...
KRS Estate Planning Ltd - Will & Probate Advice in Leicester: You are only getting what you pay for. In the quote above the amount of experience is being attached to the actual person you will be dealing with - i.e.
The Law Society of England & Wales has the best user-side offering we've seen from such organisations. Some have...
Khan Law - Raees Khan Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow:
class="infoquote "We fight our client's corner and have done so in many past cases, which is why we have a 100% success rate"< div>
Whilst this sounds like a bold claim it's something you have probably seen many other firms claim as well. For example, you don't g...
JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd in Manchester: The firm does come up top for common variant searches such as 'jps and walker solicitors' or 'jps walker legal'. Again, a very rough example but to make a geniune point. We did find some reviews for JPS Walker:
class="infoquote "really helpful through-out our claim"
...
Jacobs Law Solicitors: That's because "established in 2013" can sound ridiculously new to some considering so many solicitors quote centuries-old founding dates. Again, you would think this to be common practice amongst all firms. You'd think that would be a universal trait by now, but it's not. E...
Howe + Co Solicitors in Brentford, London: Howe & Co have one detailing some of their more high profile cases and some of the firm's background. One of our staff worked in immigration (Liverpool) for about a year and confirms it can be a very emotionally strenous environment, and that's just for the workers. They hav...
HooperHyde Business Law Solicitors in Solihull: But they're understandably less likely to share their experiences about a messy divorce, criminal charges they are facing, or suing their employer for sexual harassment. Sometimes it can be quite beneficial .
class="infoquote "worked tirelessly for me to win my case...
Hawkridge & Company - Hawk Law Solicitors in Gillingham, Medway:
class="infoquote "We are a specialist legal firm providing a range of services in the Medway town of Gillingham"< div>
This quote from the firm's website is a selection of words that sound good but are almost meaningless to consumers because every single law firm'...
Fulton's Solicitors & Estate Agents in Clarkston & Mount Florida, Glasgow: Obviously there will be people trying a wide variety of close-but-not-quite attempts such as fultons-solicitors or fultonssolicitors. For all we know they called Fultons about a divorce case and was refused representation. That's because the majority of conveyancing firms ha...
Frazer Coogans Ltd - Solicitors in Ayr, Prestwick & Glasgow: Unlike tech companies , food outlets, streaming services, or practically any company these days where the newer they are the more popular they seem to get - the legal industry still seems to push that older is better.
With so many high street solicitors to choose from ...
Fair Result Ltd Divorce Settlement Mediation Services in Leicester: A big part of their setup seems to be that they will only work with reasonable people. It's one of the few commercial sectors left where they believe an ancient founding date should give them some sort of boost in the minds of potential clients. It sounds absurd that people ...
Education Law Service Ltd - Special Educational Needs Lawyer in London: and in phone contact throughout"< div>
If you typically like a bit more before parting with any cash though, luckily there is a growing trend amongst legal practices to offer free consultations.
You never know what scam will be next though so always make sure you...
Dylan Nair Solicitors Ltd in Preston, Lancashire: But it's really not a negative sign if a law firm you're looking up has few or even zero online comments about them. So whilst someone might be very quick to jump online and talk about a pizza they just ordered - they may be more reluctant to discuss how well their dead fa...
DV Solicitors (Deo Volente Legal LLP) Law Firm in Bedford & Luton: One last snippet from the firm's site:
class="infoquote "We are here to offer all the expertise and support you will need"< div>. So it's an unusual but good sign. They prefer to source reviews from independent review forums such as Trustpilot, Google Reviews, Yell, Y...
DisrepairClaim.co.uk - Housing Disrepair Claims Company based in Brighouse, West Yorkshire:
Most of the time unregulated claims resellers hide out on social media sites like Facebook.
Typically we don't add claims management companies to our network. If you see that sort of post alongside no stated company name, no logo, no web address, and no mention of ...
Cooks Solicitors in Newcastle under Lyme & Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire: Again though, whilst many solicitors use different trading names to highlight specific case types out of the same office - this one relates to a completely individual office location within the Young & Co group. 99.9999% of people involved in a property sale (obviously exagg...
CEL Solicitors in Liverpool - Housing Disrepair, Knotweed, & Data Breach Claims: It can also be hard to tell the various options apart at first glance with so many firms using trading names or practically identical looking websites.
If you go on to a search engine and use quotation marks around various terms, it will force results that contain thos...
Catteralls Solicitors in Wakefield: The most common errors of www.catterall.co.uk, www.catterallsolicitors.co.uk, and to a lesser extent the dot coms as well are all owned by other companies too. The brand seems to be quite unique and therefore should be easy to find each time you want to come back to it.
...
QualitySolicitors Burton & Co in Lincoln & Sleaford: All cards on the table - we like Burton & Co .
With all this going for them, it was therefore strange to see the firm having an absolutely huge amount of negative reviews on the regular boards such as https: www.google.com search?q=qualitysolicitors+burton+%26+co&rl...
Brown & Co Solicitors in Greenwich, London:
Does this translate into happy clients? For this we always turn to the public boards like https: www.google.com search?q=brown+and+co+solicitors+london&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926GB926&oq=brown+and+co+solicitors+london&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i175i199i512j69i57.7321j0j4&sour...
Branch Austin McCormick LLP Solicitors in Mayfair, London: What we don't like is when solicitors go too far and start listing their favourite foods and pet's names. The main reason we dislike such claims is that typically a firm claiming to have hundreds of years history are doing so because they have nothing much else to boast abou...
BLZ Solicitors NIHL, PPI & Immigration Lawyers in Stockport:
class="infoquote "Should you require expert legal advice please contact BLZ Solicitors for a free initial consultation."< div>
We absolutely do our best to find firms that provide free initial consultations. No really, that last one actually happens more than we ...
Bilkus and Boyle Solicitors & Estate Agents in Glasgow: However the whole ancient-history-boasting across the legal industry is really just a marketing ploy to make a firm seem as though it has a huge amount of experience which it may not.
Sadly so many firms use terms such as 'modern', 'friendly', 'established', etc. But th...
Bell Lax Ltd - Solicitors in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham: The official website is www.belllax.com (triple 'l') with www.belllax.co.uk redirecting you there too. That's the type that has several specialist solicitors under one roof.
They also have a section highlighting https: www.belllax.com site about_us reported_cases " ...
Beers LLP - Solicitors in Kingsbridge & Plymouth, Devon:
class="infoquote "Established in 1885, and now with offices in Kingsbridge and Plymouth, we have been providing generations of clients with high quality legal advice."< div>
We're not a fan of these ancient establishment dates provided by firms as a way to intimat...
Aspire Licensing & Administrative Services in Whitley Bay, Newcastle: There is a firm called Aspire Law but that's a totally different group with their own website. provide advice and guidance should a contested hearing need to be arranged and assist with representation ..."< div>
The list of services Aspire state on their website is exte...
Argue & Co Legal - Allan Argue Personal Injury Solicitor in Glasgow: But they really don't. Especially in more personally involved circumstances such as suing an employer or a friend's insurance company after a crash where you were an injured passenger. Litigation matters such as personal injury have huge range of sub-titles including med...
Antony Hodari Solicitors Housing Disrepair Specialists in Manchester: Antony Hodari's claims in the snippet above were taken from their front page and are much more believable and can be checked on too. The firm we covered yesterday were very explicit about how their divorce experiences had led them to create their alternative mediation servic...
Aconveyancing Ltd in Tamworth & Shirley (Solihull): Some of the largest and most popular firms that we've worked with have a 2-3 star ratings. Such as when looking up news articles they had been quoted in. The Law Society of England & Wales has an excellent website full of user-side data for you to flick through. If someone...
ABS Lawyers Ltd Solicitors in Corby & Maghull, Liverpool: There are also many things between the lines that the regular consumer might not notice - but we do. Whilst this can fall into the same trap of the branding not always reflecting the experience of the actual lawyer assigned to your case - it is far more geniune a way to de...
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