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Last updated on January 26th.
Note that some property-based marketing and referral sites are on a separate page here.
Accident Advice Helpline was established in 2000 to
provide access to justice for victims of accidents following the withdrawal of legal aid for personal
injury cases. Since 2000 Accident Advice Helpline has helped thousands of victims injured in all types of accidents.
TV adverts feature Esther Ransome.
Accident Compensation is a non referral fee service,
enabling firms to be found from an accident-related site.
There is a lot of useful accident related information for members of the public who find the site.
Subscription is by complete postcode district on an exclusive basis and visitors are directed to contact their local
firm by online enquiry form. The site is one of the series of sites run by
Interactive Law (see below).
(The phrase non referral refers to the fact that the company passes details of people contacting the site to the nearest panel member
but does not charge referral fees. They charge solicitors an annual subscription fee to be on the site.)
Accident Compensation UK is an independent
accident claims service and the solicitors are all members of The Law Society panel of personal injury experts.
They are able to deal with a wide range of accident claims including car accident compensation,
pedestrian accidents, cycle accidents, slips and falls, accidents at work and industrial illness.
The Accident Compensation People
is an accident management company specialising in compensation for whiplash injuries, accidents at work, slips and
trips etc. They provide a no win no fee service but without using insurance cover; if the solicitors involved
think the case is winnable, they will take it on.
Accident Line was founded in 1994 by the
Law Society of England and Wales to encourage claimants to contact an experienced solicitor to get the best advice.
It provides a free phone service which puts individuals seeking to make a personal injury compensation
claim in contact with a specialist personal injury (PI) solicitor in their locality who will be able to
offer a free consultation to determine the viability of the claim. The solicitor will also be able to
discuss the various payment options available to the claimant, including conditional fee agreements.
The Law Society works with legal services and insurance specialist Abbey Legal Protection to run the
insurance supporting the scheme.
Accidents Direct claim to be the leading personal injury specialists
in the UK but do not really explain how they justify this. They say that they guarantee that all of their
clients keep 100% compensation and that they process claims under their completely free 'no win no fee' policy.
AvMA (Action against Medical Accidents) is an independent charity
which promotes better patient safety and justice for people who have been affected by a medical accident.
The site includes a directory of firms of solicitors they have assessed and approved.
bid4fees is a new website which aims "to simplify and modernise how lawyers acquire new instructions
and increase their fee income, whilst also providing clients with more choice and undoubtedly significant cost savings."
Solicitors and Licensed Conveyancers can register with the site and are then able to see the descriptions of the legal problems provided
by individuals. They can ask the person questions and then, if they wish, put in a bid for the work.
Apparently, the identities of the individuals and the solicitors are protected during the initial stages of the process.
Lawyers gaining work through this site pay 10% of their fees to the company.
Bidlegal is a legal comparison site aiming to
allow businesses and individuals to have more control over how they choose a lawyer.
Solicitors who are registered with Bidlegal quote for the work and the user contacts the ones they like the sound of.
Cerebral Palsy Information Service
is an independent network of medical negligence solicitor. They review the cliams and are able to recommend an experienced solicitor
who is a birth injury specialists and a member of The Law Society panel of medical negligence experts.
Clear Answers is a a company providing
marketing services for firms of solicitors involved in personal injury claims.
The company receives its income from the firms for carrying out the preparatory work in assessing
the circumstances of the injured person's accident and for providing them with a detailed report on the findings.
There are commendations from several firms of solicitors on the site.
Click Divorce is a DIY divorce web site, providing free information
booklets about DIY divorce and also (for straight forward divorces) a package (£29.99) service with
all relevant forms and free help and advice by email.
CMS Legal Services Online is a directory maintained by CMS
(Conveyancing Marketing Services) for solicitors in all fields (not just conveyancing).
See also my page on property-related marketing sites here.
CompactLaw (previously known as lawrights)
offers free information on site and a telephone helpline staffed by solicitors costing £1.50 a minute.
Solicitors are invited to fill in a form to apply to join the panel but there is no email address on the site.
The Connect2Law network for law firms is now 10 years old having been established in 2001 by Pannone LLP.
The primary focus of Connect2Law is not the marketing of the member’s services but as a referral and support network.
There is no cost to membership and the primary benefit is to offer member firms the ability to service their clients in areas of
law they do not undertake themselves.
The agreement with the members incorporates a non poaching term so the members maintain the property of their clients,
as well as a fee share arrangement.
Over the last six years the scheme has been franchised across the UK and there are now a total of 20 ‘hub’ firms who operate the
scheme in their regions, replicating the services Pannone offer in the North West.
The scheme now covers England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
In the last ten years the membership has grown to over 2,200 firms across the UK.
Contact Law has 4,000 solicitors located throughout the UK
that can help individuals and businesses in all areas of law including family, employment, commercial,
personal injury, will & probate, immigration and conveyancing. The company will put you in contact with
a good value and experienced local solicitor. You can call them for free or fill in details in an online
form.
Copyrightvault.com is a company set up
to give musicians, authors, programmers and artists a service to register their copyright.
The company is run by solicitor Phil Kurthausen. He is looking for firms
to join a panel of firms who could take on cases associated with the site -
there are no fees to join and no referral fees (there are only a handful of firms shown on the site so far.)
Divorce-Online is a site providing information and downloadable documents
to assist "do it yourself" divorces. It is the oldest online divorce service
in the UK and was founded in September 1999. This is a very heavily used
site and it also includes lots of free information as well as purchased
materials and the ability to find a suitable solicitor.
DivorceUK.com is a company set up by Scottish
solicitor Donald Wright to provide information on divorce in both England and Wales,
and in Scotland, with a network of solicitors ready to take on the clients.
There are two levels of members for firms at £275 and £500 a year, respectively, and a small setup fee.
There is lots of free information on the site, a calculator to work out the financial split in divorce,
case studies and endorsements from users and from solicitors. It is also possible to ask a question
and receive an answer, free of charge.
Emplaw (British Employment Law)
offers web-site and/or e-mail links from an interactive map of Britain to solicitor subscribers.
Non-subscribers with employment law expertise can have free listings. A vistor to the site clicks
on the "solicitors" button, selects an area from the resulting map and is then presented with a
list of solicitors in his area. The site started in early 1997 and now averages over 2,500 visitors
every weekday. It is unique in that it contains over 4,500 regularly updated A-Z fact cards of employment
law information to a professional standard as well as an excellent "superportal" to employment law
resources on the web.
Employment-solicitors.co.uk provides a wealth of
employment law information for both employers and employees needing advice. The web site also allows individuals to contact a local
solicitor in their area by way of an online enquiry form. The site is one of the series of sites run by
Interactive Law (see below).
Family-solicitors.co.uk provides a wealth of family law information
targeted towards the private client. The web site allows visitors to contact a local solicitor in their area by way of an online enquiry form.
The site is one of a series run by
Interactive Law (see below).
Findmeasolicitor.com was founded by One Option Finance Ltd, an Independent Home
Purchase Plan advisory firm. By combining free and instant conveyancing quotations from almost 200 UK solicitors, they
can help property consumers to search for solicitors and do their market research.
There is also an online legal q&a service, a DIY legal documents section and a selection of news stories related to conveyancing.
First4Lawyers are a personal injury claims specialist and
can help put you in touch with the right solicitor to handle your compensation claim. They offer a free, no obligation
assessment of your personal injury claim and 100% compensation for a range of accidents. If you don’t win your claim,
you pay nothing. You can ring free for an initial assessment.
Good Lawyer Guide is a guide to solicitors in England & Wales. It
star-rates 50,000+ individual solicitors, for over 20 different areas of work (eg conveyancing, family/divorce, employment, accidents, as well as a
range of business topics). All Good Lawyer Guide recommendations are independent (and solicitors cannot 'buy' their way into the Guide). You
can search by postcode (or town) to find the locally recommended lawyers. You can then ask for (free) fee quotes from solicitors. In addition, the
site contains star-rating by clients of their lawyers (and personal reviews from clients).
Injury Lawyers 4U
has been set up by a consortium of leading personal injury solicitors, in order to promote direct access
for injured people to the solicitors who will deal with their case.
It is a consortium of 185 firms led up
by Manchester firm Amelans and including Leigh Day & Co., Donns, and Pannone & Partners.
The aim is to cut out the middle-man of claims advisors and offer services direct
to the people needing assistance. The logo offers "no loans... no credit... no catch"
Injury + is a consortium of leading personal injury and clinical
negligence lawyers from many well known firms.
The site enables a viewer to obtain a free assessment of their claim and then they also
obtain a referral to one of the solicitors in the consortium.
Inside divorce is a
commercial site offering free a great deal of free information on the site but also guiding viewers to
particular "panel" firms and services.
Interactive Law provides a whole series of individual, marketing-led web sites
elating to different areas of law. The sites are designed for anyone with a legal problem and each site contains a considerable amount
of free information as well as the opportunity to look up a solicitor with that specialisation in their local area. Here is a list:
JusticeDirectory.co.uk is a free to use legal directory
of UK based law firms, organisations and associations.
The directory is split by area of practice but can also be searched on by location and other parameters.
Basic entries are free and featured listings cost £199 for a year.
Landlord Law Solicitors is a new service from
solicitor Tessa Shepperson (editor of the well known
Landlord-Law site) and provides information and resources
for solicitors who do residential landlord and tenant work. Content includes precedent tenancy agreements,
possession notices (with instructions) and court forms, plus detailed information on tenancy agreement
clauses with notes on the OFTs cases and recent guidance on unfair terms. There is also a research section
with links to online cases and statutes. A forum area will be going live in the next few weeks where Tessa
will be able to answer members questions. In due course, there will be a ‘find a solicitor’ service whereby
Landlord Law Solicitor members can (subject to any qualification criteria being met) receive instructions
from the public via the public Landlord-Law site.
LawGroup UK is a membership organisation with member
offices in England, Scotland and Wales. They are the leading provider of services to solicitors’
practices throughout the United Kingdom.
Member firms gain access to networking opportunities, best practice Consultancy and Practice performance
benchmarking, Law Society-accredited CPD training, marketing support and the ability to participate
in group-wide purchasing schemes.
The core strength of LawGroup is in helping firms to flourish by assisting them continually
to improve the performance of their businesses through the gaining and sharing of knowledge and experiences.
This year marks the 21st anniversary of the launch of LawGroup.
LawNet is the UK and Ireland's leading group of law firms,
with around 60 firms.
LawNet member firms receive significantly reduced Professional Indemnity premiums, substantial marketing,
training and quality assurance support, and best practice forums. There is also
Lawnet Solicitors, for people looking for a solicitor,
providing access to 2,000 solicitors in the Lawnet group of firms.
The website provides free information designed to answer commonly asked legal questions,
and to help visitors to decide if they need to appoint a solicitor.
The site covers both consumer and business legal issues.
Law on the Web
was started 10 years ago by a former practising solicitor, Martin Davies, but is now owned by
Claims Financial Limited.
It is a popular gateway (up to 60,000 visitors a month) for the public and small businesses
to legal information, legal news, comment, and access to law firms.
Lawyer Locator provides a directory of over 11,000 solicitors from
the long standing Butterworths directory, now owned and also run as an online service by LexisNexis.
You can search by specialisation or by area (or both).
There is also general information on legal issues and information on legal terms used and you can get an initial
assessment of a legal issue by filling in a request form. There is also a discussion forum. Firms can obtain an
enhanced listing at various levels, starting from £200 a year.
LegalandFinancial100.co.uk provides free direct
access to lawyers and financial specialists who will respond to user enquiries with details of their experience,
location, firm and even charge out rates, allowing potential clients to gain more information before
incurring costs of meeting with lawyers and financial professionals.
Once a confidential enquiry has been made through the portal by a potential client, the enquiry
is passed anonymously to up to 10 of the most experienced professionals to deal with each particular enquiry.
Based in Knaresborough, they work particularly across Yorkshire and the Humber.
As well as providing leads that are qualified and matched to various experts by the site’s trained
staff, members, who will pay to join the site, will also be encouraged to network within the portal and
benefit from cross-referrals from fellow professionals.
More than 20 professionals have already registered to be members.
Legallybetter is an independent site established in 2009 to
provide a quick and reliable way to compare solicitors for both private individuals and companies/organizations.
It aims to bring independent consumer reviews and ratings of solicitors from around the UK together in one place.
These reviews and ratings have come from unsolicited feedback to Legallybetter, regular independent consumer and
business market research surveys, and client testimonials from law firms. The reviews are not based on costs but
on the legal service provided. Law firms can obtain a featured review (including a description of the
firm and details of the web site)
without charge and can enhance the listing with detailed descriptions of fee-earners for a charge.
Legalpulse is a site particularly designed for small businesses
wishing to expand as well as private individuals. There is lots of free information on the site and
also a series of documents which can be purchased, typically costing around £30 to £40.
It is also possible to email your question to a solicitors for a fee or to speak on a premium rate phone line.
CEO is lawyer and ex Camelot director Gill Switalski.
maxclaims
is a team of specialist compensation solicitors approved by the Law Society of
Scotland.
Medical-Accidents.co.uk is a site offering a network of solicitors
specialising in this area of work. The site is one of the series of sites run by Interactive Law.
The site is one of the series of sites run by
Interactive Law.
Medical Negligence UK is
an independent network Of Medical Negligence Solicitors who specialise in clinical compensation claims.
The solicitors are all members of The Law Society panel of experts who are highly specialised in clinical
negligence claims and undergo specific ongoing academic training.
National Accident Helpline
is a referral service with 300 firms of solicitors on its panel, operating in both
the UK and Ireland. Founded in 1993.
not-my-fault.com is an attractive site for attracting accident
claims set up by Morris Legal (Solicitors)
of Solihull.
There is lots of information on different types of accident and on how to make a claim. Dean Morris, of Morris Legal,
is also willing to pass on claims outside the firm's physical or legal area of expertise to other personal injury specialists
on its panel.
Quality Solicitors Organisation
offers a quality guaranteed lawyer-matching service. Offering a free service, nationwide and in all areas of
law the Quality Solicitors Organisation will put you in touch with a solicitor ideally suited to your particular
legal issue. They also obtain and provide customer feedback on all their member solicitors so you can see
what other consumers thought of the service provided.
Right Solicitor is a leading free solicitor search company with access
to a large network of solicitors that specialise in all areas of law, both for individuals and businesses.
Road Law has been set up by former criminal solicitor
Martin Davies who also runs Law on the Web.
There is lots of free information on the site including guidance on possible penalites and motorists
can also obtain legal advice and representation throughout England and Wales at fixed prices. Firms who
specialise in road traffic law can join the panel of firms associated with the site for a fee.
search4solicitors.com is new site to assist members of the public to find a solicitor
based on the
Waterlow Directory (Waterlow Legal and Regulatory is a division of Wilmington PLC.)
As well as useful articles on each area of law, the site has access to a database of over 14,000 law firms for searching purposes.
The database is based on the Waterlow Directory and it is possible for firms of solicitors to pay for an expanded banner entry which shows in the directory and
in this new site. The site is offering a 20% discount on advertising at the moment if you quote S4SW.
Shop4Law is a new system which selects 4 possible
solicitors for a viewer's case and passes on the details of the solicitors who wish to be involved,
to the viewer. Shop4Law does not get involved in the financial tendering process - essentially,
it just makes the introductions.
The system is based on a US model which is already apparently successful.
Solicitors.co.uk is a directory in which a firm
can obtain an enhanced entry for a fee (basic listings are free).
Two levels of enhanced entry are possible: a "standard" listing costs £10 a month and a
"premium" listing (which gets to the top of the list and also provides multiple methods of
contacting the firm) costs £19 a month. These charges are a flat fee for one postcode and the firm
can be listed under all the areas of law that they practice. No contract is required and the
company does not require prepayment.
Solicitor.info is a directory of solicitors which includes feedback from the firms' own clients.
The reviews are made anonymously so the viewer can be confident of an honest opinion.
The aim of the site is, eventually, to include reviews of thousands of solicitors all over the UK.
from a firm's point of view, the listings are free and they can provide good reviews from clients. If a review appears which is unfavourable and
which is provably untrue, the firm can ask for it to be removed.
TakeLegalAdvice.com is a matching service between
individuals with a legal problem and firms of solicitors (see below for a separate site relating to businesses).
The person looking for a solicitor
fills in a brief description of the problem and this is sent by the company to firms who could provide
assistance. The firms then provide an answer, including costs, which is passed on to the potential client.
There is also a forum for discussing legal topics.
The Legal Alliance operates on a national basis throughout England and Wales.
Member firms comprise some of the best firms in the country who specialise in delivering legal services to consumers and SMEs across a
broad range of legal disciplines. Consumers have a separate site
TLADirect and can get a free, no obligation quote from solicitors involved in the scheme.
For many types of legal work, the firms can offer fixed price quotes.
The National Solicitors Network
(TNSN) was formed in 1991 to create a national panel of legal firms with the aim of providing the
public with quality legal expertise at a reasonable price. They are now the largest legal network in the
UK with over 250 member firms (over 400 offices) covering England, Scotland and Wales.
Every member of the Network is quality vetted and subject to annual appraisals.
They represent firms of every size; from sole practitioners to solicitors' firms of over 50 partners.
The Solicitors Group is the UK's largest
collection of law firms and organisers of the profession's leading exhibitions and training congress.
They hold three annual events, two at the Olympia Conference Centre London and one at the Gallery
at the NEC, Birmingham. Members are entitled to a very competitive price when they book 3 or more delegates.
They also arrange Professional Indemnity Insurance on excellent terms, share marketing skills, operate
a referral network and provide a preferred suppliers group (with discounts on the services provided).
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