Finding Legal Help When Things Go Wrong
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:
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White Collar Legal & Admin Ltd in Wirral, Merseyside: oh!" about:
class="infoquote "White Collar Qualified Paralegal & Administration Services. Some firms definitely try too hard to be trendy whilst others almost regress, focusing on their 200+ year history and their founder Mr William Whittington-Smith-Smythe III. Typi...
TSABI Ltd - The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc in Southall, London & Slough:
class="infoquote "At TSABI, we are more than just a law firm - we care about people and their individual or business needs for acquiring legal support."< div>
So whilst the majority of law firms will have a sales pitch line like this one on their website, with th...
Thorpe Wilson Ltd Solicitors in Rochdale: But it's not the right name. Many firms will actually charge fees if your case wins.
If you look up https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 620184 thorpe-wilson-limited" the page for this firm< a> you can confirm their SRA (Solicitor Regulation Authority) status,...
Thompsons Solicitors in Scotland | Personal Injury Claims in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh & Galashiels: Then there is www.thompsonslaw.co.uk which seems to just link to all the other sites they own. All the good reviews are pretty much like the above - i.e. What's the best way to weigh these contradictions against each other?
We would re-iterate our warning about star r...
The Johnson Partnership Solicitors in Nottingham, Sheffield, Doncaster & Derby: Again from the Johnson's official website:
class="infoquote "We have over 60 Criminal Advocates, over 25 Accredited Police Station Advisors and over 10 Higher Rights Advocates and In-House Counsel. Again, when trying to search for their largest piece of coverage by Ch...
Taylor Rose MW Ltd Solicitors in Manchester, Peterborough & London: At the time of writing they were 3.7 5 on Yell.com, 7.4 10 on TrustPilot, and 3.9 5 on Google. This sort of thinking could therefore be called 'old school'.
I'm pretty sure most of you perked up at that last one. The same goes for their social media activity.
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Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP in London, Finchley & Hatfield:
There are some things to read between the lines that are also very telling. You'll see on the Law Society's staff page about them that they have a huge range of experience levels. Naturally, the ones listed there are all incredibly positive and lengthy in their pra...
DFA Law LLP Solicitors in Northampton: That simply means their marketing guy has added all the working years of the staff together. But what about the client reviews we mentioned at the start? Certainly the firm has glowing testimonials on their website:
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Serious Law LLP - Serious Injury Law Solicitors in Bolton: Typically if the firm's website does not have 'Serious Catastrophic Injuries' as a specific case title on the front page of their website along with at least one full page about their abilities and experience in that area - we would suggest moving on to the next firm. So we ...
SBW Law Ltd - Solicitors in Liverpool: If you've read any of our other pieces about law firms and their websites, you'll hopefully know that we try to point out things about each firm that people might miss or may not even know about to begin with. First:
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RSR Law Ltd in Croydon: Contest. Other funding options are available, such as a fixed fee agreement, meaning you pay no unexpected costs. I'm guessing that when they did away with injury claims, it was time to overhaul the acronyms to? I have a hard enough time remembering the one for strokes. We w...
Robson & Co Solicitors based in Hythe, Shepway, Kent: The same does not often apply to things such as motor offences.
Here at 1to1Legal, we've found it difficult to find enough firms that deal with discrimination and unfair dismissal. Be sure you remember it right if you decide to search later. Make sure to speak with the ...
Redwood Collections Ltd - Debt Recovery Services based in Croydon: The usual testimonials are pasted on the firm's site, however (as our poll last year informed us) people tend to ignore testimonals on company sites. Some are setup to send threatening letters and to doorstep visits that are backed up with a legal department already in place...
Penn Chambers Ltd - Solicitors in London: If you look up the page for Penn Chambers on https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 547667 penn-chambers-limited" The Law Society website< a> you'll see that the principle solicitor (Shak Inayat) has been practising law since 1995 .
class="infoquote "At Penn Ch...
OJ Solicitors Ltd English & Romanian Solicitors in Glasgow: So a firm promising both does not necessarily mean a better outcome for you. We've experienced this personally when someone decided to have a rant about 'capitalist law firms!' on our review section. Right now, a search for "OJ Solicitors" on search engines brings up the c...
NV Legal Ltd Personal Injury Solicitors in Watford:
class="infoquote "If you have been involved in an accident or sustained an injury, we can help secure the compensation, rehabilitation and support you deserve."< div>
A quick note on navigation.
The NV Legal website has wide range of help articles on it's si...
Murray Hay Solicitors for Putney & Wandsworth: The social economic background of staff is varied with some having attended state school and some having attended independent fee paying schools. They have 25 years behind them in the area, which will have given them plenty of time to have a wide, loyal, local client base. O...
MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP in Bromley, Kent - Greater London: However, it should be available across their range of claims services as it's mentioned in the majority of their other advertising. We added one firm because of their exceptional opening hours including up to 8pm for weekday appointments in the evenings and alternate Sat Sun...
Meresbrook Pollard Solicitors in Bradford: We couldn't find any information on why they are called Meresbrook Pollard, but they wouldn't be the first firm to just pick a name they like the sound of. They state an aim of providing a color="green "professional, friendly and reliable service" < font> with a color="gr...
McShanes Solicitors based in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland:
Aoife McShane trained in England at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, attended the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. They boast about their recruitment procedures which are designed to ensure they employ staff of "the highest calibre". Many firms we see dur...
MacLachlan Solicitors Ltd in Gillingham Sherborne & Shaftesbury, Dorset: That's a bigger deal than you might think.
For example, we often see firms stating they have 50, 100, or more "years of experience". MacLachlan simply state their firm opened in 1998. There's a lot to like about MacLachlan Solicitors when checking out their virtual ...
Alexander JLO Solicitors - AJLO in London, Birmingham, Chelmsford, Norwich & Liverpool: The guide is not like a Top 100 or any form of accreditation though. If you haven't heard about the huge number of property sales scams, just search "scammers stole my house deposit" on a https: www.theguardian.com money 2019 aug 24 the-45000-deposit-for-our-first-home-was...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd: The old address of www.linkilaw.com still has some independent pages you can visit but most have a popup suggesting that you click to go through to the new site.
You never know where the next scam might come from though so pay attention to the web address you are on a...
Leech & Co Solicitors Ltd in Manchester: We are linking to the www.leechandco.co.uk site above. There were a few one star reviews on Google, but the reviewers didn't leave any comments about why - which is no help at all. Naturally the level of expertise and experience grows faster and they are more likely to be up...
Law In Cornwall from Cubism Ltd, Truro: Therefore, their solicitors provide you with the necessary strategic advice to ensure that you can resolve your problem or dispute as swiftly and effectively as possible.
They provide legal services in contract disputes such as online contracts, construction disputes, d...
Lawcomm Solicitors Services in Fareham, Whiteley & London: If a property sale delays or crashes because of the third party buyer seller - the solicitor gets blamed. (Article from the Southern Daily Echo) Of course the firm has the obligatory Customer Testimonials on their website, however we're aware from the poll we did last year...
Lambertpugh LLP Nationwide Conveyancing Solicitors from Norwich: However, don't assume that Will writing is a simple process. For either commercial or residential - you really need to get on the phone to discuss your needs and get a quote. In fact, most times we are flummoxed by the excessive content of sites, the poor accessibility, and ...
Kudos Legal Ltd Solicitors in Glasgow and Preston: communicated well at each step of the claim"
- "Excellent service. 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. I just want to say a big thank you to Rafaad for helping me deal...
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. So why have we sought out such a relatively new, small chambers to add to our network? There are a few reasons, but the one that caught our eye initially ...
Kings Court Trust Ltd Probate Services based in Bristol: Simply put, an ABS is a firm handling legal matters that has non-solicitors owning, running, or working within the company.
ABSs were introduced by the Legal Services Act 2007 but didn't hit the UK legal services market until about 2012. The applications are still mostl...
Joanna Connolly Solicitors in Liverpool, Merseyside: They do not act for banks or lending institutions, allowing them a clear focus on one side of the fence. For consumer credit disputes, they also list themselves as consumer credit specialists, helping consumers when court proceedings are either being threatened or already is...
Jarmans Solicitors Ltd in Sittingbourne, Kent & Chancery Lane, London: If you've been searching for a firm for a while now, you may have noticed the number of practically mirror-image websites all stating how that firm is 'modern yet traditional', 'friendly yet professional', 'thorough yet swift', etc. Along side them are newer people such as X...
Jackson Lees Group Solicitors in Liverpool & Manchester (aka Jackson Canter): The contact details have changed. But with a number of large, well-established firms collapsing in recent years - it is a real testament to their planning, staff, and setup that they seem to be going from strength to strength rather than calling in the administrators.
N...
IWC Estate Planning & Management Ltd - Probate & Will Services in Croydon, Bristol & Braintree: However, we have seen comparison sites starting to pop up for legal services and don't recommend using those. The blog section seems to be regularly updated as well. These are people with no legal qualifications that discuss your case in depth with you and take all the detai...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Ltd in Newry and Dublin:
A last word to sum up from the firm themselves:
class="infoquote "Whether you are a company or an individual and need legal advice – the best way to find out how we can help is to contact us."< div>. The idea is to find a handful of different types of law office ...
R James Hutcheon Solicitors - Law Firm in Liverpool: Just because there's a big speech about them being 'established in 1885!' doesn't mean there is a 175-year-old solicitor behind the desk acting as an all-knowing guru to everyone else there. We think they can be very misleading and they reduce the claims to simply being a mo...
Huneewoth Solicitors based in Croydon, South London: 'He said, she said' conversations are not reliable sources of information.
Therefore we are left with all the information above and our gut instinct about it. A general 'feel' of a firm can be gained during all this research. Whilst a firm may call itself Super Clear La...
HJA.net - Hodge Jones & Allen LLP Solicitors in London: The latter even lists HJA's articles in the Google News search results alongside the BBC, Guardian, Times, etc. This one is from their main page:
class="infoquote "Every solicitor in our London legal practice adopts a meticulous approach to their work, ensuring that y...
Helix Law Ltd - Solicitors in Brighton & Eastbourne: The majority of Helix Law's positive reviews are from people that have reviewed a wide range of firms indicating they are most likely genuine. Some may simply take comments made in emails letters the client has submitted - unsolicited. We've even come across a Motor Offenc...
HH Law Ltd - Hampson Hughes Solicitors in Liverpool:
Do Hampson Hughes Solicitors do well in this area? Their own website testimonials certainly say so, but that's to be expected. Having spent more than a year 'face down on the wet pavements of Liverpool taking photos and measurements' he's more aware of the big diff...
GloverPriest Solicitors Ltd in Birmingham (Great Barr), Stourbridge, Wellingborough & Tamworth: For more details on the plague of conveyancing scams, just search for "lost my house deposit to scammers" in the news.
class="infoquote "GloverPriest have a wealth of experience and expertise in representing our valued clients, in personal and business legal matters, i...
Frank Rogers Law Ltd - Motoring Offence Solicitor in Birkenhead: The https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 1320 frank-rogers-law-ltd" page for this firm< a> will provide you with several links to look information about the practice, people and cases worked on. Make sure to find out first if you qualify before really getting in to ...
Fieldfisher LLP Personal Injury Solicitors in Manchester & London: For this firm to have individual offices within the UK that have remained focused on a relatively small target group and one that can bring just regular smaller (again, relatively) claimants alongside larger ones - is unusual. No win no fee just means that if you LOSE ther...
FamLegal.co.uk Family Legal Solicitors in Middlewich, Cheshire: Choosing the right solicitor is crucial. The practice regularly features in the legal 500, and was honoured to be nominated as Best family law firm in the UK (lawyer monthly magazine in 2015). I have and would be happy to refer people to her when seeking legal guidance"
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Edward Hands & Lewis Solicitors in Lewisham, Loughborough & Leicester: EHL have done neither. So, another point to Edward Hands and Lewis.
Arguments could be made about the reliability of email vs Royal Mail, but EHL has decided to express faith in technology:
class="infoquote "Whilst EHL generally communicate with their clients by e...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Ltd | Motor Offence Lawyers in Manchester & London: The more you know the easier it will be to understand your options and choose the right person to help you. But not Mr Loophole.
class="infoquote "We are without doubt, the country's leading motoring lawyers."< div>
Martin Hammond and Philip Trotter qualified as s...
Driscoll Kingston Solicitors in Liverpool: Jennifer Campbell was helpful, imformative [sic] and kept us updated at all times."
"Driscoll Kingston were excellent at keeping me updated on progression."
"It Is [sic] the first time I have ever received compensation for anything ..."
"... Be careful on other firm's ...
Davey Law Solicitors in Cirencester and Gloucester: For example, as you'll no doubt have noticed - the individual serious injury website I've linked to above does not use typical tld identifiers. Why did I feel like mentioning that number? Because this is the first time I'm going to be writing about a regular law firm. We ca...
CSL Law Ltd Solicitors in Croydon: That's not unusual for Google, but in this instance it made researching difficult and it became apparent that unless people actually dug into some of the links - they might form incorrect assumptions. It's universally understood that people are more inclined to scour the web...
CFG Law Personal Injury Solicitors in Cheadle, Greater Manchester:
There aren't a lot of indications as to why this firm decided to be different. It's very brief descriptions a few sentences long each about an accident, the injuries, and the amount paid out. To date, everyone seems very impressed with CFG on their own merits and have ...
Briffa Legal Ltd Intellectual Property (IP) Solicitors in London: We love case studies in the same way teenagers love YouTube. If you don't know how passionate you have to be about a subject to keep a real blog going - just try it.
Where does this love of all things IP come from? Normally staff profiles on a solicitor's site either...
Brearleys Solicitors in Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton and Brighouse: it is rare for a new practice to open with four offices. color="green "My family use your Brighouse branch regularly ..." < font> sounds like a ringing endorsement as well. We know that for many people, it helps to have a mental image of what a person looks like when deali...
Barrister-Direct Ltd: Using Barristers for Personal Injury Claims: They in turn will then often approach Barristers for advice and representation if your case proceeds to Court. Then, should your claim actually go to Court, you will continue to be represented by the same people you've already been working with. They aim to explain clearly t...
Balfour + Manson Solicitors & Property Sales in Aberdeen, Glasgow & Edinburgh: However, www.balfourmanson.co.uk and www.balfourmanson.co.uk are currently owned by different people. If you go to www.duthieward.co.uk (www.duthieward.com is blank) you'll see a stand alone website, but they describe themselves as consultants to Balfour and Manson.. The bra...
AWH Legal Ltd - AWH Solicitors in Manchester & Blackburn: The loss of legal aid for practically everything has completely altered the legal fee landscape. There is a whole host of accreditation logos stamped at the bottom of each page as well.
There are the usual customer testimonials around the site, but as we already know fr...
Avery & Walters Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Harrogate: However, you need the stable balance of experience in each firm as well to help things run smoother and stay focused. For example, a firm that states 'founded in 1883' could simply have bought the brand name or have found some really tenous family links with one of their s...
Auto Logistic Solutions Ltd - Vehicle Accident Management: We don't take your details and sell them to anyone.
Anyway. If you had to pay for it because of the accident, you can claim it back along with the injury compensation.
Diminution< u> - typically in the past this was mostly sought by people with classic, expensiv...
Atkinson Rose Employment Law Firm based in London: Therefore success rates can't be compared directly. His bio on the firm's website explains the experience he's gained in various large and small law firms during the 10+ years since qualifying as a solicitor. The Atkinson Rose news page currently has real< u> editorial piec...
Ashworth Motoring Law | Driving Offence Solicitors in Rossendale, Lancashire: Considering their promise of the best scientific experts and the best court barristers - that's an interesting promise to make.
We have spoken to many motoring solicitors, and some have come back with fee quotes in the region of £4000 for a simple £100 fine ...
APS Legal & Associates Ltd - Will Advisors and Assured Probate Services: Hopefully we'll get an article about it out soon and we'll insert a link here to help. We could email you from an @amazon.co.uk address right now saying your payments have failed. They should have the APS Legal logo on their website though and you can always check with the m...
Apprise Legal Services - Wills, Trusts, Probate & Estate Planning in Sutton Coldfield: Quite often we've seen reviews about a firm that have clearly been put under the wrong company and even one star reviews with very positive comments (meaning someone has made a clicking error). You will then be shown their case expertise and typically how many years each sol...
Allsop Durn Solicitors in Ruislip: But we needn't have worried"< div>
There were dozens of snippets to choose from. However after so many years of flicking through such sites, we've noticed quite a few distinctions the less regular browser may not.
That's certainly the case for Allsop Durn a...
Aina Khan Law Ltd - Family Law Solicitors in Broxbourne, London: On this occasion though, we're going to break with tradition because the comments are not the usual "Highly recommend!" blandness. We also saw the site www.ainakhan.com mentioned on other websites and in the search results. If you check https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.u...
Taborns Legal Business - Will Taborn Ltd in London:
We don't always have a lot of information to go on. law firms and accountants) often have requirements that require specialist experts and products being put together. If you're a business person yourself , you've probably seen the numerous 'company furniture catalogu...
ACS Accident Claims Scotland - Road Traffic & Workplace Personal Injury Solicitors: As with most firms that have names using general terms (i.e. People immediately search for that lawyer who deals with speeding tickets day in and day out. This was an unusual one for us.
Today, all of us here at 1to1 sit behind a desk trying to get people direct to a...
5 Essex Court Chambers & Partners - Barristers in London: https: www.legal500.com firms 9330-chambers-of-jason-beer-qc 9330-london-england " The Legal 500< a> page about them also uses similar wording in it's praise:
class="infoquote "An excellent set with a stellar reputation, 5 Essex Court consistently appears in high-pr...
33 Legal Ltd | Claim Services in Preston & Manchester: They're also very emotional and often deal with horrible acts against the most vulnerable. If you've done a little of your own homework, you'll have seen that 33 Legal Ltd was incorporated in early 2017. Lately we've been accused of writing reviews that are too long-winded. ...