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Here are some more of the helpful information articles our staff have put together and published on our main 1to1Legal UK website:My 33 Legal Limited: They also mention Legal Aid - another thing most solicitors won't work with any more - but the majority of personal injury claims will come under a no win, no fee arrangement anyway. Considering the huge number of simple variants people might mis-remember such as www.3...
5 Essex Court Chambers & Partners: But probably more so because Direct Access is unfortunately not as widely known as it should be considering how long it's been available. However it's not uncommon for random adverts to appear under this or related keywords. Prior to 2004, it was necessary to instruct a firm...
Aina Khan Solicitors: For example - out of a hundred typical law firm websites at least twenty of them will say they are 'one of the leading law firms in the UK'. As the name is quite unique there shouldn't really be problems like you get with some firms that use generic terms in their ...
Allsop Durn Dearlove: class="infoquote "Our solicitors provide personalised guidance and experienced representation throughout the legal process, always working towards your best possible outcome."< div> Again, claiming a large amount of experience is something practically every law f...
Apprise Legal Services: Thankfully these days there are a large number of indepedent review boards such as Google, Trustpilot, Yell.com, Yelp and so on. https: www.lawsociety.org.uk " The Law Society of England & Wales< a> for example can be searched by legal practitioner's name or the name of t...
Autologistic Solutions Limited: We don't act as a middle man. In fact, after entering your case type and postcode you can call straight through to any of the firms we recommend. Quite often we get contacted by firms asking us to remove or reword things - so we must be doing something right! The point...
Avery & Walters Ltd: However the same maths process is often abused by newer, less-scrupulous firms. You may also see other names such as Avery Walters Ellis Solicitors and Avery & Walters Ltd mentioned when looking around for information. class="infoquote "We are an independent, Yorkshire...
AWH Legal Ltd: But on the web you could be dealing with a basement-based-20-year-old taking people's personal injury claims and selling them on to real solicitors. class="infoquote "We understand that the legal process can be daunting and the associated costs hard to keep track of, ...
Briffa Intellectual Property Solicitors: Do you?) Briffa's staff profiles are actually quite revealing as to why the firm does so well across so many industries and countries. Aside from the founder Margaret, the next two staff profiles on the 'Team' page include the Practice Manager Adrienne Wallace - an acco...
CFG Law: On this occasion, the firm has thankfully missed out bits about their favourite colours, food, and hobbies. So there must be a reason that CFG have created this whilst the majority of others have not. Luckily the letters stand for Client First Group rather than a solicitor's...
CSL Law Croydon: Usually we only strongly advise people to bookmark a solicitor's site when fraud is a possibility such as scammers preying on property transactions. However that is only the date the 'Limited' version of the company was incorporated. As the head of the firm, Clive Lawr...
DFA Law Solicitors: Luckily there are a lot more resources online to help choose a law firm than is probably known to most people. A last word from the DFA Law website which hopefully now sounds little more sincere after having checked through the extra bits and pieces above. Titles...
Driscoll Kingston Solicitors: If you #sbwlaw read the article< a> previous to this one, you'll see a great example of why we regularly dislike testimonial pages. The rest are all 4-5 star reviews saying the company is great. The main website address www.driscollkingston.co.uk is linked to above and we d...
Hammond Trotter Solicitors Ltd: So sure enough, we sought out a specialist to start recommending to people. But in this case the small print states the word 'success' only meant achieving the expected outcome. It's the same as shampoos which say '90% of users would recommend us!' only to have 'out of 20 pe...
Frank Rogers Motoring Solicitor: At the moment it's https: www.theguardian.com money 2019 aug 24 the-45000-deposit-for-our-first-home-was-stolen-and-the-banks-did-nothing" mainly property matters that are targeted by scammers< a>. But how do you find out more information about a firm if it's your first t...
GloverPriest Solicitors Ltd: So seeing direct contact details for solicitors on the Glover Priest's site and text about solicitors dealing with matters from start to finish - is encouraging . On the subject of reviews, you may find it a bit more difficult than usual to flick through third party re...
HH Law Ltd: AND from start to finish (which only took 4 months) HH kept me informed on a regular basis" "They kept me updated throughout the whole process and got my case solved really quickly"< div> There are dozens of similar reviews across Trustpilot, Google, Yell, etc. How...
Helix Law Solicitors: This is because the articles are mostly written by the firm's marketing staff rather than a seasoned professional at the firm taking time out fo their schedule to try and provide free help to the public. Typically if there are grammatical errors and spelling mistakes - the r...
Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors: On our network we're partnered with many firms that could be considered 'big'. So all things considered, it would be advisable to bookmark the correct site once on it to make sure you always come safely back. Despite this, HJA https: www.hja.net events access-justice-pur...
Hutcheon Law Solicitors: From the Hutcheons Law site: class="infoquote "Many solicitors are now charging 25% of the client's compensation due to a change in the Law from April 2013 ... However a lot of people are under the impression that 'no win, no fee' and '100% compensation' mean the same ...
Penn Chambers Ltd: Not all barristers are able to take instructions from members of the public.
One thing that made us feel a certain kinship with this particular law firm was their T&Cs section. It doesn't have as much information regarding the firm and obviously has different contact i...
Ian Mallon Solicitors Ltd: It will provide each solicitor's qualification date too.
class="infoquote "this company came with good recommendations, very grateful to them for my positive experience through a difficult time"
"everything was communicated very clearly and I was kept up to date ...
TSABI Ltd Solicitors: This way, if a firm claims to have years of experience in its staff you can actually check up whether that's true. So what are people saying on the public forums?
class="infoquote "Staff are extremely professional, knowledgeable and responsive."
"very good commun...
IWC Estate Planning & Management Ltd: They are simply 'case management companies'. They then take that case to a third party solicitor to deal with whilst they act as a very-well-paid middleman. There are very specific pieces such as "The Chain of Representation" or "A Precatory Trust". Someone usually has to lo...
Jarmans Solicitors Sittingbourne: Obviously never discuss payment matters via email, and we'll have a last word from the firm:
class="infoquote "We think outside the box and punch above our weight to deliver top-notch advice and solutions to any legal issue.
A quick note on navigation as the doub...
Joanna Connolly Solicitor Advocates: You will be able to purchase "one-off Pay As You Go (PAYG) legal services at any time with prices starting at just £250 for a specific, agreed legal service to be performed" by them according to the site. For example, a loan may prove to be unenforceable in the courts ...
Kings Court Trust Probate: 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. This will offer a fixed-fee service, based on the amount of work required,...
Stephen McCaffery & Catherine Stock: Considering that variants such as www.kingschambers.com, www.kingsview.com and www.kingsview.co.uk are all owned by other firms as well, it's very advisable to bookmark the site just in case. can get advise on their own licensing issues.
We always run a firm's website ...
Kudos Legal Solicitors:
class="infoquote "You can rest assured that your case will be in good hands and will be handled by highly experienced experts."< div>
Another very common marketing tactic amongst solicitors is to boast about ancient founding dates.
So why did we invite Kudos ...
Lawcommercial Trading Ltd: On this firm's site however, there seems to be a genuine provision of pieces intended to help with titles such as "Will the New Shared Ownership Model Work?" and "New Residential Possession Proceedings Guidance". That will provide you better details about their expertise and...
Leech and Co Solicitors Ltd: In fact for most industries whether financial or farming, the 'News' or 'Blog' section of a company's website is usually just some thinly disguised stack of extra sales-pitches with maybe two sentences of useful information stuffed in the middle of each. It will tell you not...
Linkilaw Solicitors Ltd in London: The solicitors themselves also get scammed into paying out to the wrong people.
You never know where the next scam might come from though so pay attention to the web address you are on and be aware that it's very easy to fake the "Sender:" box of an email. There are ...
AJLO Solicitors: However one thing they do (which we don't) that could be very helpful - is allow clients to leave reviews on each firm. That's not helpful and shouldn't really be allowed in our opinion. But here's an example of one negative review:
class="infoquote "This firm handled ...
MTA Solicitors LLP: The last thing you want to is mistype the name and end up giving your phone number to the wrong people.. kept me informed regularly of all aspects of my claim and always had time to discuss any queries."< div>
However according to our poll a couple of years ago, less th...
NV Legal Solicitors: Considering the wide range of case types within the title of 'Personal Injury', it can be hard to think of firms that deal with such matters as 'specialists'. Also, there aren't many scams targeting personal injury claimants at the moment. The law firm then pursues the third...
OJ Solicitors Glasgow: So what else can you check?
class="infoquote "From the very beginning his team were generous with their time, thorough and reassuring."
"Very professional and prompt."
"Always available to answer any questions or concerns I had. Plus having the actual solicitor a...
Redwood Collections Ltd: Some are only set up to send threatening letters. Luckily there are dozens to look over with third party sources:
class="infoquote "We have used Redwood Collections on a few occasions and have found them to be very efficient and helpful. I say oddly because quite oft...
RSR Law Croydon: We believe that raising awareness of the risks of exposure to carcinogens at work will help save lives. Advice. They also promote and back events programs relating to their chosen fields, such as as the No Time to Lose campaign from the IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safe...
SBW Lawyers Ltd: 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. Always make sure to read the actual comments though when it com...
Serious Injury Law Solicitors:
Obviously the firm has the standard testimonials on their website.
class="infoquote "We are the firm of choice for many other legal professionals who recognise our depth of expertise in catastrophic cases."< div>
You can always check https: solicitors.lawso...
SR Law Solicitors London: You'll find there are plenty of firms who state they have transparent fees, but not many that actually list examples on their site. We will consider fixed fees and for legal dispute work No Win No Fee (or partial no win no fee) arrangements in appropriate situations."< div> ...
Will Taborn Ltd: If you've read review articles on our site before then you'll know that we usually cover quite a bit of ground including regulatory databases, third party forums, snippets from across the site, quotes from peer groups, and so on.
Taborns offer a "Legal Concierge Outsour...
Johnsons Solicitors Nottingham: This is the kind of contact you'll probably not want to be faffing around trying to find details for when the time comes..
class="infoquote "At The Johnson Partnership we are franchised to provide a legally aided service to clients with criminal law problems. If you u...
Thorpe Wilson Ltd: when there is only one actual qualified solicitor at that firm to handle them all. There are also links to each staff member to see their own individual case focus, qualification dates, and roles within the firm. For example, Asda do not 'specialise' in Cereal, Milk, Chocola...
Philip Nam White Collar Legal: After one hour in a CAB office, White Collar (Legal and Admin) Ltd will suddenly seem like a godsend. Okay, so the following is not my most objective or impartial review of a firm. Most of the time you are 'helped' by someone who has just quit their job stacking shelves at...
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