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EDC Lord & Co Solicitors: Far too many people https: www.theguardian.com money 2019 aug 24 the-45000-deposit-for-our-first-home-was-stolen-and-the-banks-did-nothing" new="target have handed their entire house deposit< a> to fraudsters after believing an official-looking email telling them the payme...


NJS Law Ltd: If any of us received an email saying tens of thousands of pounds of ours suddenly needed to be sent to a totally different bank account, we'd pick up the phone and call the firm to check. Here you can get clear answers about the experience levels of a firm AND their special...


Cullimore Dutton Solicitors: Plus, it's very common for clients of the other side to leave negative reviews on the opposing law firm (as their conveyancer will likely have blamed any and all delays on them). Names, years of experience, any additional specialties and direct contact details. class=...


The Law Partnership Solicitors: We don't usually tell people what to do in our articles, but it's safe to say you can ignore such founding dates when deciding which legal services firm to use. So what are the independent boards https: www.google.com search?q=The+Law+Partnership+Ltd&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926...


Wilford Smith Solicitors: A firm covering personal and business matters with local offices in Sheffield and Rotherham. Keep aware of which site you are on and never discuss payment details via email.. Because you could get a 1-year newbie solicitor from a 200-year-old firm and a 40-year veteran lawy...

Foster & Coleman Ltd: The site is https secure for submitting your personal details on their contact form. It's common for solicitors to make huge claims about ancient founding dates such as 'established in 1881' or even older. It states the firm is relatively new which brings up a point about ...


Wildcat Law Ltd: This lets you gauge the amount of actual experience a law firm might have at its disposal. outdated, impractical, unfriendly, unprofessional, and inexperienced. That is very rare even now despite Direct Access having been around for over a decade. You can hire a barrister y...


LS Legal Solicitors Ltd: class="infoquote "LS Legal Solicitors is a multi-service, specialist, diverse and dynamic law firm"< div> It's a misconception that any firm stating a wider case range must therefore spread their time between such cases and not have such a great amount of knowl...


A City Law Firm Ltd: A City Law Firm has been on our network for a while now and has many aspects about it you may have come across in your search for legal help and wondered what it means or where you can get more information. We ran a poll a few years back which stated only 8% of you trusted...


Buchanan & Co Solicitors: And they talk normal" "easy to get through to my solicitor and they replied to me promptly" "Put him at ease from the word go" "Everything we wanted was sorted promptly"< div> There were a lot of positive messages left on the boards, but sadly not a lot of g...


Goldsmith Bowers Solicitors: We did notice negative reviews for this company online but they seemed to be the same one copy pasted onto each forum. You could end up with a 1-year qualified newbie lawyer from a 200-year old firm, or a 40-year veteran from a 1-year old newly set up practice. www.goldsmit...


Guardian Law: Almost obsessed. This brings up an extra point about reviews - i.e. That's a good four decades of combined experience between them. We've seen a law practice praised for its 'tasty new menu' and a divorce specialist given a zero-star rating for refusing to handle someone'...


Backhouse Solicitors: The most common are those https: www.itv.com news calendar 2021-12-16 ripon-man-scammed-out-of-house-deposit-by-fraudsters-posing-as-courier" targeting property buyers and sellers< a> due to the massive amounts possible to be scammed. Because if you see a rival firm...

WH Solicitors: It's one of those ones that make us use tired out sayings such as 'does what it says on the tin' . class="infoquote "Unfortunately immigrating to the UK is not simple. You can see for WH their main lawyer Waleed Hassan has been practising law since 2011. That's goo...


Two Harcourt Buildings: As you can see, each is still specifically about one particular barrister. However before we get into that, we should probably share the opening line of this particular chambers' website. Two Harcourt Buildings may be a setup you're not familiar with because prior to r...


MJV & Co Solicitors Ltd: But one thing we did notice as a recurring theme across them all was 'Natalie' being named and thanked regularly. We've also seen some sites refer to the firm as MJV & Co Solicitors. A few tips on independent comment boards: Read through those comments and never rely o...


Bridge McFarland LLP: committed to delivering a quality driven service designed to meet the needs of each and every client."< div> All the knowledge in the world doesn't always translate to good service. It's not worth the risk. . They state alternative company names, all office addresses,...


Woodstock Legal Services: A mix of seasoned heads on fresh legs. They brag about their ancient foundation dates and the number of offices. With three words 'woodstock', 'legal' and 'services' there an many variables possible but all we checked such as www.woodstocklegal.co.uk were not active. Whilst ...


Stephanie Heijdra: Barristers may be part of a 'chambers' or simply be working on their own. You may see Stephanie listed on other related networks such as Clerksroom as well. That's because reviews left underneath the chamber's name will be about one specific lawyer within it. We think...


Summerfield Browne Solicitors: However if you actually read through the comments you see one reviewer stating "I have provided them with amazing pension advice" which seems like an advert for their own company plus several one star reviews within the space of a week with no explanation attached. However, ...


Thaxted Legal Ltd: Sadly the government body doesn't even provide a good advisor search function and when trying to look up a firm there is a mountain of reading involved just to find the link to take you to the page that takes you to the link that takes you to the search box etc. So if...


Smith and Graham Solicitors: We've seen law firms with 5 star reviews for their food and 1 star reviews for the bad haircut they got. There is no ampersand in domain names so www.smith&graham.co.uk can't exist and currently no firms are using variants such as 'www.smithgraham.co.uk' either. As we only r...


Brown and Co Solicitors: This is a hugely important thing to remember because the firm handles conveyancing property matters which have been https: www.express.co.uk life-style property 1511097 property-warning-home-buyers-scam-conveyancing-fraud" targeted worldwide by scammers< a> due t...


Mackenzie Jones Solicitor: The full www.mackenziejones.co.uk and .com are both for a recruitment firm so no mixups expected there. The majority are very positive and (unusually) very long and well written with plenty of information about what work was being done, the names of people handling ...


Hill House Chambers: Typically we refer, like most consumers, to the third party boards such as Google, Yelp, Yell, Trustpilot, etc. and represent you in court."< div> ​We've obviously summarised their much longer description https: www.hillhousechambers.co.uk directaccess" found here<...


Stowe Family Law: Today's piece covers the website of Stowe Family Law where there is a fair mix of writing and images to scroll through even on the first page. We always recommend speaking to someone at the firm before going ahead. It's not uncommon for well-known divorce firms to demand &...


Rose Fendlen Law: If a legal practice https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 15402 lrose-law-limited" is registered with them< a> you can see all known trading names, contact details, alternative office addresses, staff qualifications specialties, and so on. Employment Law ... Housing ...


Bell Lax Solicitors: The majority of them were very positive with helpful insights into what parts of the service they felt Bell Lax staff excelled at. There were several other things about Bell Lax Solicitors we saw as positive or just plain interesting that made them stand out a bit more in ...


JPS Walker Solicitors Ltd: So if you see a law firm with barely a handful, or even zero, reviews - don't take that as some sort of negative sign. You can find alternate trading names used, all office locations, languages spoken within the firm, case specialties, and even the qualification dates o...


The Legal Practice Ltd: 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 any common queries that come up during your general search for legal help. This firm https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk o...


Youngs Solicitors: We also hold CQS, The Law Society's quality mark for legal experts in buying or selling property and are trusted by some of the UK's biggest lenders."< div> To most people that list of accreditations may mean nothing, but it will still sound quite impressive. That's bec...


Lefevres Law: For example, Lefevres are listed in the Legal Aid board database. That can make them sound a little more formal: class="infoquote "the best possible service is given and best possible result is achieved for the clients" "they have a fantastic ability to hand...


David Stinson & Co: But a lower number of reviews or even zero is something you will see for most law firms. 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 inju...


Cooks Solicitors: a genuinely local firm but with a much larger firm's resources behind it. Newcastle RTB team where [sic] a nightmare to deal with and he managed them so well." "always kept me updated on what was going on and explained things" "i used nigel cook recentley [sic] ......


Swain & Co Solicitors Ltd: Thankfully you can actually check this claim if the firm is registered with the English Welsh law society. Now we come to a firm with several separate offices but different names for some of them. Testimonials always look different from third party review site comments bec...


My Law Matters: 9 times out of 10 the client feels a property sale should have gone faster or blames their solicitor for problems with independent survey reports that are out of their control. Sadly thousands of people https: www.express.co.uk finance personalfinance 1497866 Lloyds-bank-s...


Frazer Coogans Ltd: class="infoquote "Frazer Coogans Solicitors was originally established in Ayr in 1985."< div> If you've read any of our other articles, you'll probably have seen at least one rant about 'established in ...' dates when it comes to law firms. class="infoquote ...


QualitySolicitors Burton & Co: Especially those with https: www.theguardian.com money 2019 aug 24 the-45000-deposit-for-our-first-home-was-stolen-and-the-banks-did-nothing" huge house deposits waiting to buy< a> a property. class="infoquote "Very professional and completed my case with no stress ...


OneLaw Chambers: Practically every firm will claim to be friendly and modern. That may sound like a large number of firms to be in a 'best of' list. For example, the creation of 'no win, no fee' arrangements for litigation matters such as personal injury, medical negligence, housing dis...


Beers LLP: Unfortunately that needed to be said because there isn't much negative about Beers LLP for us to focus on. If there are several negative comments related to being uncontactable - that's a good thing to note. The official website we link to above is www.beersllp.com but ...


DisrepairClaim.co.uk: (No pun intended.) class="infoquote "The compensation you can claim is ... for other inconveniences and loss of amenity ..."< div> So is there a compelling reason we've made an exception for this CMC? Yes and unfortunately it's a very bleak one because most high s...


Simper Law Ltd: The age of the firm's brand name is pretty much meaningless and often tenuously worked out to begin with using the wife's-cousin's-dog's-next-door-neighbour approach to linking up the current firm with an older name. For some reason though, the legal industry still has the c...


Reynolds Macdonald Solicitors: Whilst many people will be quick to jump online and tell people about a meal they've just eaten. The usual amount is 25% of the settlement. Please be aware though that reviews for law firms are very different to reviews for things like restaurants or hairdressers. clas...


ULA Solicitors Ltd: However for ULA Solicitors there are plenty of in-depth reviews stating exactly how they were helped. ULA apparently started out with just a single case type in mind, having set up as: class="infoquote "... Some firms post testimonials on their sites, but according to ...


Taylor Price Solicitors: We've seen that more times than should be expected.) Certainly there is a lot of praise and accompanying acronyms being thrown around their staff too. Word like 'friendly', 'efficient' or 'modern' pop up constantly but don't really help to distinguish that firm from t...


Michael Leighton Jones: Useful context for negative reviews should be used to check if there is a theme. That's a bigger deal than you might think. Whilst we try not to offer direct legal advice on our site, it is probably very fair (almost obvious actually) to comment that a solicitor that works ...


Milners Solicitors: class="infoquote "At Milners solicitors we offer a free initial consultation where you can speak to a member of our specialist team."< div> This may sound like an offer you'd expect from every law firm these days. They have lawyers on staff that joined the industr...


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