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: site's owner is a private businessman, the website is a Limited company, and there isn't much readily available information as to what being 'approved' actually means?) As White Collar themselves are also a Ltd company though, there is lots of public information available su...
Thompsons Solicitors in Scotland | Personal Injury Claims in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh & Galashiels: So this boast from Thompsons is more about the amount of clients and experience they have rather than them promising you £million settlements for your pavement trip.
In the US the compensation amount is seen as a punishment for the negligent party to put them of...
The Johnson Partnership Solicitors in Nottingham, Sheffield, Doncaster & Derby: That's an important scenario to ask about when calling up any criminal defence firm.
There were other issues people might run into when researching this firm that we'll come to later, but first we need to go over a few things about Johnsons in general. not all written ...
Taylor Bracewell Solicitors in Doncaster & Sheffield: They make no quantitative remarks against any business type contacting them, even stating that they are happy to advise on all commercial matters for businesses large and small, new or well established. Their Sheffield office opening https: www.scci.org.uk 2014 04 taylor-b...
Taylor Rose MW Ltd Solicitors in Manchester, Peterborough & London: But it will obviously depend on the search terms you used. Recently I was on the phone with a solicitor who genuinely said the words "Oh, that internet thing? No we don't do that." Taylor Rose MW do Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and even https: www.youtube.com channel UCm...
Taborns Legal Business - Will Taborn Ltd in London: That typically means a much smaller number of organisations to verify everything with and or zero reviews across independent boards.
We don't always have a lot of information to go on. A last word from Taborns:
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R James Hutcheon Solicitors - Law Firm in Liverpool: Our services are often innovative and intuitive to meet the demands and needs of today's more sophisticated clients who require legal help on specific issues."< div>
Every law firm has these kinds of phrases and sales-pitches across their website. Why is that a big dea...
Serious Law LLP - Serious Injury Law Solicitors in Bolton: I felt that I was not only in top professional care, but that they cared and understood the emotional traumatic side of the ordeal I was facing."
"Everyone we have dealt with has treated us with respect, kindness and patience and guided us through a long case."
"It...
SBW Law Ltd - Solicitors in Liverpool: However the idea that a 200 year old firm has ten times the knowledge or experience than a 20 year old firm - is obviously nonsense. For example, 5x staff members with 2x years of experience = 10 years of experience 'within the firm'. Today's article centres around the firm ...
RSR Law Ltd in Croydon: Variations on RSRLawLtd don't seem to exist as yet, but it seems as though the original firms that merged have simply closed their access rather than redirecting such as sapphireclaims.com
There is also an entirely separate site at www.ContestaWill2Win.com owned and ope...
Robson & Co Solicitors based in Hythe, Shepway, Kent: He is an accredited ADR Group workplace mediator and a member of the Employment Lawyers Association. So we were over the moon to get this firm on board in the lower east side of England, where there has been a gap for many months. We believe you need to really 'click' with y...
RJ Gill Solicitors in Skelmersdale: So digging a little deeper we were glad to see better explanations of commonly over-used phrases such as "no win, no fee" . The reason we decided to bring this firm on board as well, is to offer something more streamlined and dedicated to speedy resolutions.
Most large...
Redwood Collections Ltd - Debt Recovery Services based in Croydon: Some are set up to send threatening letters and do some doorstep visits. One of the benefits of using a debt collection company such as Redwood over, say, a firm of solicitors - is usually savings in both time and cost .
class="infoquote "An effective approach to debt...
Penn Chambers Ltd - Solicitors in London: All our Clients have access to all the important details of their matter, enabling efficient communications and the transparency you need."< div>
We're at the point now where any firm that doesn't provide online admin areas for their clients - is really lacking somethin...
OJ Solicitors Ltd English & Romanian Solicitors in Glasgow: However, they will usually get you more compensation to begin with. We're amazed at the number of immigration firms on the web that only have an English version of their website. However you never know what's around the corner so it's always advisable to do what you can to...
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. Lisa Mansfield has 25 years at the firm, handling mostly residential property matters. Sheridan Taylor is a barrister with experi...
MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP in Bromley, Kent - Greater London: So that's a good indication they've handled quite a few cases in their time. They can use spoofed or similar looking domain names in their website and email addresses. The Law Society for England & Wales has a very good user side setup allowing people to see a wide range o...
Meresbrook Pollard Solicitors in Bradford: Not only does Meresbrook Pollard have a unique case range that we've not seen elsewhere, but the reason we wanted them on our network and are recommending them to you - involves a considerable amount of 'intuition'.
Why should you trust our gut about this firm? We've ...
McShanes Solicitors based in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland: No 'compensation calculators' or 'free iPad just for enquiring!' promotions with this firm. Again, the first firm in Northern Ireland to achieve such.
Certainly, the firm is very much focused on quality as you read through their website. But with such a wide case range,...
Marcus Andreen Commercial & IT Law Based in London: As a commercial lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience providing legal support to companies and individuals - his clients are mainly fast-growing, successful businesses for the IT, telecoms, e-commerce and communications sectors.
Marcus Andreen's background in both ...
MacLachlan Solicitors Ltd in Gillingham Sherborne & Shaftesbury, Dorset: (Metaphor not intended.) During our 20 years in the industry we've seen the most tenuous links used to exaggerate shorter timelines. and I'm Scottish. But unless they had a negative experience or have been encouraged by the firm to go and leave a review - the number of peopl...
Alexander JLO Solicitors - AJLO in London, Birmingham, Chelmsford, Norwich & Liverpool: This is not one of Alexander JLO's clients leaving a review. But considering they deal with property matters, we again would recommend bookmarking .
class="infoquote "... We ran a poll in the middle of last year and in this age of mobile phones, email, and 24-hour s...
Leech & Co Solicitors Ltd in Manchester: Our ambition is to build a law firm that is based on long-term, trusting relationships with our clients. He therefore turned down our offer to list him on our site and preferred to stick to advertising in his local newspaper. There are some error addresses that the firm own ...
Law In Cornwall from Cubism Ltd, Truro: As many people may type "cornwalllaw" or "lawcornwall" by mistake, it's probably best to bookmark the site once you're on it.. They offer family law services such as divorce, children and family cases. www.lawincornwall.co.uk was the web address we were provided by the firm ...
Lawcomm Solicitors Services in Fareham, Whiteley & London:
It's not surprising with all this high praise and focus on client care that Lawcomm Solicitors were named https: www.dailyecho.co.uk business 17624927.lawcomm-based-whiteley-named-best-law-firm-conveyancing-first-time-buyer-readers-awards " "Best Law Firm for Conveya...
Lambertpugh LLP Nationwide Conveyancing Solicitors from Norwich:
For Commercial Conveyancing, you'll be handled by John 'Lambert' or Ian Taylor. Plus, apparently their conveyancers have fully trained assistants to answer questions if your conveyancer is not available.
Moving home is stressful. She is a real asset to your compan...
Kudos Legal Ltd Solicitors in Glasgow and Preston: Not just legal services. However, during our 20+ years working with law firms we've come across all sorts of dubious versions of this. We include general law firms, niche practices, sole practitioners, barristers, accounting services, debt collectors and more as each can hel...
KTP Solicitors based in Pontypridd & Bridgend, Wales: They state that all the firm's partners and most of their staff grew up in the local areas such as Pontypridd and Rhondda.
As mentioned, they cover personal injury, conveyancing, leasehold, mediation, power of attorney, tax planning, wills, probate, family law, compensa...
Kings View Chambers, London with Stephen McCaffrey & Catherine Stock: Technically speaking if you remove the 's' from the https: part of the web URl in an old browser you'll see a site displayed, but obviously the 's' indicates a level of 'security' so that removal is at your own risk should you be faced with no other alternatives.. So wh...
Kings Court Trust Ltd Probate Services based in Bristol: With a name like "Kings Court" and the fact this firm handles legal matters such as probate, you'd be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that KCT are a chambers packed with grey-wigged barristers. That will undoubtedly have caused quite a bit of change in the setup, staf...
Joanna Connolly Solicitors in Liverpool, Merseyside: For consumer credit disputes, they also list themselves as consumer credit specialists, helping consumers when court proceedings are either being threatened or already issued. Whilst they don't say much about free initial consultations, the website does mention the Condition...
Jefferies Solicitors Ltd in Altrincham, Stoke on Trent, Manchester & London: They point out that things such as depreciating value of the car, road tax increases, and so on are yet to be discovered.
The main people to note would probably be Michael Jefferies (Managing Director), Nina Ramsden (Director), and Kathryn Harland (Personal Injury Solic...
Jarmans Solicitors Ltd in Sittingbourne, Kent & Chancery Lane, London:
Just as a couple of examples: a founding member of the firm, Barry Bond, heads the commercial and employment departments with over 40 years under his belt resulting in cases covering Europe, the USA, South America, Hong Kong, Japan and New Zealand. Our clients receive...
Jackson Lees Group Solicitors in Liverpool & Manchester (aka Jackson Canter): They were not all like that. But even though the firm has merged their main brand names together, the group have opted to keep the separate Broudie Jackson Canter (now Lees) name which acted on behalf of 20 families involved in the Hillsborough disaster - a case resulting in...
IWC Estate Planning & Management Ltd - Probate & Will Services in Croydon, Bristol & Braintree: Or worse, they just sell your case to a completely different firm. They were voted the number one legal probate provider on the FreeIndex business review website and are regulated by the Society of Will Writers & Estate Planning Practitioners plus the Heir Hunters Associat...
Huneewoth Solicitors based in Croydon, South London: This is important because if they have only stated Criminal Law in the Law Society record as an area of practice, but have twenty other case type names on their website - it may be that they are brand new to each of those areas of law. First order of business is to find an A...
HJA.net - Hodge Jones & Allen LLP Solicitors in London: The clientele and Legal Aid dependancy would shape any firm in a certain direction. Another factor could be that Patrick Allen founded the firm in 1977 and still runs it 40+ years on . You'd be lucky to scrape up even a handful on any particular firm.
On their websit...
Helix Law Ltd - Solicitors in Brighton & Eastbourne: It's as if a website can't be considered 'official' unless you have a bunch of articles no-one ever reads. Why is that of note? Because any effort to provide free information to people is a good indication of a firm's general mindset. It's not a foolproof system and there ...
Hartley Bain Solicitors in Stratford, Greater London: Individual Immigration - for individuals whether moving for studies, work or family relocation. They begin by understanding the challenges faced by their clients. The attentiveness to detail that you consistently displayed served to eliminate many potential issues from arisi...
HH Law Ltd - Hampson Hughes Solicitors in Liverpool: Luckily there is a huge range of third party review boards to check as well:
class="infoquote "very happy with the service and payout. Being updated even just to say 'we're still waiting to hear from X' , can help with peace of mind. For example, if they have obtained...
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: If not, then it's likely you will have to pay up front to get any real advice. Please note that whilst some firms may say they work with Legal Aid, the restrictions on who actually merits that help are unbelievably tight.
You can usually look up the qualification dates ...
FamLegal.co.uk Family Legal Solicitors in Middlewich, Cheshire: These interviews can take place face-to-face, by telephone, or even my face time or Skype.
Testimonials:
"Julia has a fantastic blend of empathy, efficiency, and sharp professional knowledge. Their ethos is that as a family solicitor they are there not only to pro...
Edward Hands & Lewis Solicitors in Lewisham, Loughborough & Leicester: Then in 2014 the firm's Managing Director was crowned Boss of the Year for Leicestershire.
At the time of writing this, there are currently 15 EHL offices across England : Beeston, Bulwell, Buxton, Carlton, CityGate, Hinckley, Hucknall, Leicester, Lewisham, Loughboroug...
DSL UK Debt Collection Services in Redditch (nr Birmingham) - Debt Solve UK: That means the people working at a debt collection agency often have to have strong stomachs and resolve to undertake even basic cases.
The management team apparently have over 30 years experience in debt collection between them. This is for businesses who have lost tou...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Ltd | Motor Offence Lawyers in Manchester & London: We've been working in the legal industry alongside solicitors for over 20 years now. Certainly, the cost of the fine and the increase in your insurance from speeding points may work out to be considerably less than the cost of defending yourself. Refusing to Provide a Speci...
Driscoll Kingston Solicitors in Liverpool: Anyway, back to this firm:
class="infoquote "98% of our Personal Injury Claims are on a no win no fee basis which means there is no financial risk to you"< div>
Some case types such as difficult medical negligence cases won't be able to be covered by a no win, no ...
Davey Law Solicitors in Cirencester and Gloucester: If we asked people to imagine a typical, modern solicitor's firm - Davey Law is exactly what would spring to most people's minds.
So lacking any unusual features to comment on, is this also going to be my shortest article?
These days, people are obsessed with 'in...
Countrywide Conveyancing Services | CWPL Property Lawyers based in Manchester & Cardiff: Ad-speak is when you say "we're one< u> of the largest", or "the largest conveyancing firm (*in Croydon)". However, that first statement isn't just clever wording. it's going to be short! Yes, if you've managed to drag yourself through some of my previous epics then I'm sur...
CSL Law Ltd Solicitors in Croydon: From a statistical and sociological standpoint - that's a positive thing.
The typical review sites such as Yell, 192, Yelp, and Google have only a handful of comments and (at the time of writing) only the latter had a single negative one displayed. In fact, they are one...
CFG Law Personal Injury Solicitors in Cheadle, Greater Manchester: I may be bias (having sought out engineering myself at uni) but I would imagine that someone who came at their law degree from a different angle has probably influenced the way CFG has come at injury claims from a different angle. Again, bias may come into play but I've bee...
CBTRL Psychological Assessment & Rehabilitation Company (incl PTSD): PTSD is also widely accepted as requiring fast identification and treatment, with many companies and agencies requiring their employees to meet with a psychological trauma expert as a matter of course after any potentially disturbing incident.
The idea of early interven...
Briffa Legal Ltd Intellectual Property (IP) Solicitors in London: It's rarely there and we make a point of mentioning it in their review along with a snapshot of the infamous "No.1 in the area! (*according to my mother)" billboard produced by a US realtor. However, no firm gets to dictate what we write in their review or make changes unl...
Brearleys Solicitors in Batley, Birstall, Cleckheaton and Brighouse:
http: www.jaynebrearleyandco.co.uk www.jaynebrearleyandco.co.uk< a> - certainly does not appear to be anything to do with them either. We're not overly keen on testimonial pages on company websites to begin with - but this one quotes reviews from back in 2013. color="gr...
Barrister-Direct Ltd: Using Barristers for Personal Injury Claims: They also determine one point of contact for your claim within the firm, and aim to answer or respond to all telephone calls the same day and client's emails within 24 hours.. They aim to explain clearly the merits and risks of a case with you up front. They in turn will the...
Balfour + Manson Solicitors & Property Sales in Aberdeen, Glasgow & Edinburgh: As you can see, though, B+M have resisted the urge to publicise their connection with the new US president! A very wise decision.
Now for the stuff you probably don't know, and probably won't find on B&M's website:
There is actually an entire website dedicated to...
Avery & Walters Ltd - Solicitors in Leeds & Harrogate: We get dozens of firms contacting us each week asking about getting on to the 1to1Legal network and being recommended to people in the UK for legal services. Here is a selection of the more positive ones from places like Google, Trustpilot and Yell:
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AWH Legal Ltd - AWH Solicitors in Manchester & Blackburn:
With so many other variants and names in the mix (e.g. So how are AWH being rated across the independent third party review boards?
class="infoquote "all procedures were explained with patience and understanding at a sensitive time"
"very professional and al...
Auto Logistic Solutions Ltd - Vehicle Accident Management: We don't take your details and sell them to anyone. If it's possible that your car could be worth less after an accident even though it was repaired incredibly well - you can claim for the expected shortfall. If you've got good insurance cover, it could be two.
Uninsu...
Atkinson Rose Employment Law Solicitors based in London: we offer a free legal assessment call with a qualified lawyer to anyone with a legal concern at work." (sic)< div>
Lastly, do they win more cases than non-specialist firms? This is a question people often ask us through our social feeds and by email about various firm...
Ashworth Motoring Law | Driving Offence Solicitors in Rossendale, Lancashire: They promise round the clock access to the solicitor dealing with your case, as well as regular updates alongside the general advice they provide during the legal process.
They list the benefits of their service to include competitive pricing, fixed fees where possible...
Apprise Legal Services - Wills, Trusts, Probate & Estate Planning in Sutton Coldfield: There has been a huge rise in self-employment in this country though and family setups are getting increasingly complicated too. Something you're much less likely to get from a typical high street law firm that just states 'Wills' under a huge list of other case types they...
Allsop Durn Solicitors in Ruislip: But we needn't have worried"< div>
There were dozens of snippets to choose from.
That's certainly the case for Allsop Durn as we'd worked with one of the titular staff members on a previous project. really.) So always put the star ratings into context by re...
Aina Khan Law Ltd - Family Law Solicitors in Broxbourne, London: It may have nothing to do with their actual legal expertise. We also saw the site www.ainakhan.com mentioned on other websites and in the search results. You turned the case round completely"< div>. (Both genuine law firm names.) Plus most scammers https: www.theguardian.c...
ACS Accident Claims Scotland - Road Traffic & Workplace Personal Injury Solicitors: As with most firms that have names using general terms (i.e.
class="infoquote "Our solicitors only handle accident claims. If you're not sure which category you fit into, call to see if they cover your particular injury. 'accident', 'claims', and 'scotland') Google mi...
5 Essex Court Chambers & Partners - Barristers in London: We've also seen some understandable variants in searches such as "no.5 essex court" and "5 essex street" for example. However under the new Direct Access scheme members of the public are able to hire a barrister directly. We've linked to the official www.5essexcourt.co.uk ab...
33 Legal Ltd | Claim Services in Preston & Manchester: We've seen law firms sharing Strictly Come Dancing memes, swearing, or just posting endless adverts followed by the phrase "Like Us!" which just looks out of place. No really!)
The majority of the text on any law firm's website is going to sound similar to the next.
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