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Argue & Co Legal: You'll just see auto search results from your browser.. You can read an article here where we cover the 'why' on that one. That brings us back to the tie-breaker we mentioned before and why we always recommend calling the firm to speak to someone. i.e. Even zero reviews is n...


Springle & Co Solicitors: People are less likely to jump online and write a review about their divorce, will, or criminal offence compared to praising the pizza they just got delivered. Those who did any future planning would typically get a basic will written and maybe take out life insurance (while...


BLZ Solicitors: BLZ Ltd is the same firm, it's just their official Limited registered name. A last sales-pitchy statement from the firm's site: class="infoquote "We are a friendly, approachable and professional firm that provides quality legal representation to those that need it."< d...


Hawkridge & Company: Always make sure you're on the correct website and never discuss payments or bank details via email. But when anything goes wrong, they get the blame. Popular words these days which we've seen across huge numbers of legal professionals sites include 'modern', 'specialist',...


Pacific Law: Any possible errors such as 'pacific solicitors' or 'pacific legal' may bring up different results in the search engines. Either way should really make no difference to your choice though. However we have worked with some of the key players in the past. ​ cl...

ABS Lawyers Ltd: class="infoquote "We ensure that customer service, rather than our profits, is the number one priority."< div> This is another claim every single firm will make in one way or another on their website. One is to quote an ancient founding date such as 'established i...


Stenfield Solicitors: But how are people feeling about the services they've received from Stenfield Solicitors? The firm doesn't have a testimonials page, but that's actually not a big issue for us or most other either. One main difference between the types of law firm we typically cover and ad...


Khan Law: For us, a specialist focuses on an area of law in order to build up a huge amount of expertise and experience whilst constantly keeping up with the latest news and changes within that area of law. So what else is there? class="infoquote "At Khan Law we will ke...


DV Solicitors: Not every case requires a solicitor at a huge law firm. That's quite a feat for a firm that handles property matters because typically most people wish their house sale could have gone smoother or faster or they believe they could have gotten a better deal. But there a...


Richmond Legal Ltd: 'Jack of all trades, master of none' springs to mind. To use a description any less than 'expert' would clearly be unwise. So a public display (it's actually capitalised on the Richmond Legal website but we shrunk it to avoid distraction) of a number clearly meant as a poten...


Trust Inheritance Ltd: You can turn to the third party review forums. The most common reason is the expectation of more expertise, more experience, and therefore a knock on effect of less time and cost required. Another thing that should be mentioned though is the level of alternate and individu...


Bilkus & Boyle: Sadly so many firms use terms such as 'modern', 'friendly', 'established', etc. Or the review stating how all lawyers are crooked that had been copy pasted across a dozen law firms in Birmingham. As a Scottish business ourselves, we hope our national Law Society c...


Catteralls Solicitors: 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. Catteralls are signed up with The Law Society of England & Wales which is great because they have a fantastic webs...

Penerley Lawyers: There's therefore been quite a surge in the number and type of legal service provider popping up to meet the demand. class="infoquote "our innovative and less-stuffy approach to providing legal services ensure that the focus is always on results"< div> It's ...


The Search Bureau: The lack of easily available reviews shouldn't be viewed negatively in these cases. Each of these partners also have established connections of their own to make their systems just as reliable, effective and efficient including ties to the Environment Agency, Or...


Education Law Service Ltd: A specialist like the Education Law Service that does such cases day in, day out (again, just like specialists for other legal matters) will likely cover a much wider range of work within that area of law. You never know what scam will be next though so always make...


Pump Court Chambers: Now whenever there are various court matters where you will need a barrister - you can usually hire one yourself directly. secretaries and other support staff."< div> That brief but good description found https: en.wikipedia.org wiki Barristers_in_England_and_Wa...


Mason Bullock Solicitors: There are far better paying areas of law which is probably why so few firms get involved. It's a difficult area of work , often futile, and not a massively well paying job to take on. The situation was at least slightly covered in https: www.dailymail.co.uk news article-3...


Lindsays Solicitors: class="infoquote "We are proud to sponsor Eilish McColgan, one of the rising female track stars of Scottish and UK athletics"< div> Firms will often do charity events raising a few hundred pounds for something then get several news articles about it put out. But i...


Aspire Licensing: 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 extensive. Whilst we often discuss the pros and cons of using specialists, we usually are talking a...


OTS Solicitors Ltd: It is a good hallmark of establishment and an indication of adherence to good standards. This designation is possible for such firms because whilst they do list several types of legal matter to be dealt with, the individual solicitors within the practice may only handle o...


Reid Black Solicitors: This is a great move because as our poll last year showed, most people don't trust company created testimonial pages anyway. Northern Ireland, like much of here in the celtic-relative land of Scotland, has a couple of large population centres with most others spread out ab...


Howe + Co Solicitors: Many of their websites even look the same with photos of people in smart suits smiling and pointing at a computer screen or shaking hands. They have over 100 staff, cover a wide range of legal matters, and a long history. If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk office 4...


Robin Somerville Direct Access Barrister: Whether a general commercial law issue, shareholder dispute, insolvency, employment disagreement, or a regulatory disciplinary matter. A last word from Robin's site: class="infoquote "I am at my best at times when clients are facing crisis or radical change where they ...


Levins Solicitors: They provide a huge amount of data user-side for consumers and businesses. You can always hang up and call back on the phone number you know is correct. Certainly we've had similar problems and it took six months to get a response out of Google. Not least to help them feel t...


Aconveyancing Ltd: If we had to find a niggle with this firm, then that would be it - i.e. Such as when looking up news articles they had been quoted in. class="infoquote "We also provide expert legal advice ..."< div> If the firm you're checking out is located in England Wales then...


The Injury Solicitor Ltd: No win, no fee just means that if you lose there will be no fees. (Generally known as 'resellers'.) Those firms that cold-call you asking about an accident you've never had also have websites trying to get the same information from you. It's probably a good idea to bo...


RD Costings: www.rdcosting.co.uk) also were not currently in use at the time of writing. The short version of all this is simply that RD Costings' transparency about the 25% being declared on their website is a very good sign about the type of setup they run and ethos they hold . ...


MGBe Legal: So it may be an idea to bookmark the site . Someone who constantly updates themselves in the new legislation and guidelines. From the queries we've seen on our site this generally applies to Motor Offences, Criminal Law, Conveyancing, Debt Recovery and Immigration. It's jus...


McEwan Fraser Legal: Two other property firms we recommend on our site and who we think do a great job have only 2-3 star ratings. class="infoquote "Scotland's Award-Winning Solicitors and Estate Agents"< div> You'll see a simply huge number of law firms state they are award winning....


Fieldfisher LLP: 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. You'll see Fieldfisher have lawyers from each ...


APS Legal & Associates: This particular claim above is made on a few pages we saw including the main page and their About Us section. It states each of their associates is qualified to give advice, attends regular seminars, carries appropriate insurance cover, has been vetted by the CRB background ...


Linkilaw Solicitors: We've worked with and written about this firm before when they were originally called Linkilaw Ltd. But law firms are starting to realise that telling people they've been established for over 150 years no longer impresses. Just hang up and ring back on the phone number the s...


NV Legal Ltd: class="infoquote "100% no win, no-fee"< div> This statement on the firm's website could use some clarification. It's quite common for firms to use marketing jargon to obscure their real experience levels. The first simply means that if your case loses, there will ...


Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP: However, we also have experienced consultants in other areas of law."< div> Most firms will have some sales-pitch statement like this on their website about how great their lawyers are. Simons Rodkin Solicitors clearly are a firm we recommend. The firm's official websi...


DFA Law LLP: 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. A 40-year established firm might stick you with a 1-year experienced solicitor, and a 1-year established firm might have a 4...


Ian Mallon Solicitors: For example, we saw a negative review of a Divorce specialist for refusing to take on someone's Personal Injury case. The firm's website is https secure so you should be fine entering your details into the contact forms. The idea is to find a handful of different types ...


The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc: The Solicitors Advocates & Barristers Inc are signed up with The Law Society of England & Wales which is one of the better ones. However, on this occasion they have simply linked to the third party review site Trustpilot and are showing the public reviews from there....


Thorpe Wilson Solicitors: class="infoquote "At the centre of everything we do is a commitment to you, our client, to offer you the best possible service that we can."< div> The only way to really verify statements like this one is through comments by previous clients. So how can you tell ...


Allsop Durn Solicitors: We are pleased that most of our work comes from repeat clients which hopefully means we are doing something right."< div> These days people are very suspicious of testimonials on any company website. We would assume it means the firm actively takes feedback seriously a...


MTA Personal Injury Solicitors LLP: What makes us unique is our people."< div> If you https: solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk organisation offices 516825 mta-solicitors-llp" check the page< a> for MTA Solicitors you can click around for further details about the firm. Most lawyers in the UK are regis...


Apprise Legal Services: Google sadly allows advertisers to stuff the searched-for keywords into adverts. The term 'Estate Planning' is only just starting to gain ground here in the UK. The only similar organisation we could find a registration with was https: www.willwriters.com listing davi...


Aina Khan Law Ltd: Normally we don't refer to a firm's own testimonials. Be aware that www.ainakhanlaw.co.uk is currently not in use. But what does that actually mean? How many firms are in this never-mentioned list of 'leading firms' for that practice to be one of them? Ten? A hundred? A th...


Taborns Legal Business: The official site we link to above is www.taborns.com (www.taborns.co.uk does not bring anything up right now) and whilst the branding is simply 'Taborns' it is the Will Taborn Ltd name that will bring up other relevant information such as companies house. They will also gen...


R James Hutcheon Solicitors: For example if a site says 'with 40 years experience within the firm' or something like '40 years of combined experience' - they don't mean that one of the staff has at least 40 years experience under their belt. For example, the firm is called R James Hutcheon Solicitor...


Penn Chambers Solicitors: Meaning customer engagement and feedback monitoring are clearly a priority . There's no shortage of law firms around the London area. Thankfully the majority of lawyers in the UK are signed up with their local Law Society. Normally companies use the Blog section to write...


Frank Rogers Law Ltd: Frank Rogers has been running for some time now so there are many third party reviews on the regular boards such as https: www.google.com search?q=frank+rogers+solicitors&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB926GB926&oq=frank+rogers+solicitors&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i175i199i512l2j0i512j0...


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