I am the owner of two businesses in London, one is in St Johns wood and the other is in Marylebone…read moreWestminster. Freeman Solicitors has helped me with company formation, legal advice, and the purchase of both of my commercial properties, they are very fast and efficient, I have also used their notary public service to notarise some Arabic documents. I highly recommend them.

I own two businesses in London. Both are in Westminster (St Johns Wood and Marylebone). Freeman…read moreSolicitors has helped me with the purchase of my two commercial properties as well as company formation and general legal advice. I also personally used their Notary Public, which is great as I used them to notarise some important Arabic documents. I have found them to be very fast and efficient; I would highly recommend them.

Clare Kirby at Peacock & Co is the most incompetent solicitor I have ever had the misfortune to…read morecome across. She persistently makes errors and does not give any legal advice or meetings at times when it is needed and often pursues her own poor judgement instead. She cannot cope with performing basic administrative tasks even when documents are presented to her in complete order. Her complete lack of competence and unprofessional attitude contributes to her failure in providing a lack of duty of care towards her client and extremely below par standards for a practicing solicitor.

I started using this firm after they were recommended by a friend who has been a client of theirs…read morefor many years. I have used their employment law person and a general corporate solicitor, both of which have provided a good service and been competent. Also they have respected that I did not want to drum up legal fees and did not do many of the sneaky tricks some solicitors do to massively increase the time a client uses. They are not cheap, but the prices seem right for the proper capable people they use who seem to have proper knowledge and experience. Being a smaller firm sometimes the receptionist is not there to pick up the phone and it seemed to me that other people have to then do it. If that happens it can be a bit of a mess and for example I have been put through to a dead phone with no voicemail. However I just called back. All in all I feel well looked after with no need to go elsewhere.

I've been doing some work for this company and want to share what they do with others. The…read moreTakeLegalAdvice.com website is basically an online service which matches your legal requirements to the right law firm. Say for example you wanted an employmnet solicitor in London you would enter the details of your requirements such as the type of industry you are in etc.. and they will match you with a law firm from a database of over 15,000 lawyers. This takes a lot of effort, time and stress out of trying to find one yourself, and then not knowing whether you have chosen the best solicitor for your case. Also there is no cost to using the systme and you are not obligated to using any solicitor they suggest. I highly recommend checking them out if you are looking for a solicitor / lawyer. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUoWTicUPI

Gary Edel at Penman Johnson is a great criminal defense solicitor. His case studies online are what…read moreprompted me to use his service and I was so glad I did.

We had a awful experience with Nick Taffs at Streathers Clapham. At best, he was rude,…read morecondescending and seemed as if he really couldnt be bothered if the transaction happened or not. The only reason we made progress was to bypass him and work with the agent and the buyer. He is hard to get a hold of and everything will be channeled by his secretary. I would not wish him on my worst enemy.

I used Streathers last year following the recommendation of my mortgage broker when we last bought…read morea flat in London and was pleased with the quality of the work. We worked with Zach Reynolds (one of the property solicitors there) who was friendly, with a great attention to detail and pretty commercial too. The official fee was reduced (a bit) and eventually it turned out to be slightly more complex than anticipated but he did spend the extra time. We will probably use Zach again when we next need a solicitor in London.

I was a conference delegate here…read more It's a very nice comfortable space, lots of visibility out to the real world but no distractions. The coffee and lunch were lovely, if it hadn't have rained it was set to be al fresco on their roof garden which offers views of The Shard, London Eye & the rather special Oxo building, or should I say OXO. Thoroughly recommend for a small conference.