New Legal Services Comparison Site. Benchmark the price for legal services.

dmg24

sharewiz, little hint about spamming - if you are going to make up other usernames to support your business, don't login five minutes later to 'respond'!

digp

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juliep_2

I registered on Wednesday morning and got 5 replies within 24 hours. Only 3 replies quoted estimated costs, 2 @£500 and 1 over £1000 (for a property sale). The other 2 replies seem to be standard e-mail responses and advised to ring with more details for a quote.
I know some people don't like the idea of using this because the firms pay to be on the site, but they also pay to be in Yellow Pages or Thomson Local surely? Also it's not just big firms with a big advertising budget that have replied.
As Martin said originally, you don't have to use any of the recomended firms, but it might be useful as a guide to costs.
I've also been given a personal recomendation from a friend, but I will be assessing their quoted costs against those I've received from the website. I do think it's a useful benchmark tool.

stormCat99

I submitted a request and have received 5 replies in 72 hours so far. However only one of these has a cost. The others just contain general waffle about providing a personal service etc etc. Not v useful when I have asked for a quote!

JayD

60 hours after entering my enquiry I have had only 4 responses.

Three of them give absolutely no indication of costs at all - not even an hourly rate - and the fourth gives a fixed price a couple of hundred pounds dearer than a quote I had already obtained fom a local solicitor myself.

Verdict: 2/10 - It does NOT do what it says on the tin.
- Not a very useful site at all!

le_eswiss

Signed up yesterday, need help with conveyancing (buying a property).
3 replies, only 1 had a price, and that too c. 2x of using the service I normally use (conveyancingsolicitors.biz).
Score 1/10.

btw: I've used converyancingsolicitors.biz twice myself, and recommended it to friends. All find it excellent value for money

MPwannasavemoney

I actually found this site before reading about it here.

Its useful to gauge the likely service and price range you may get for the services though I don't think enough solicitors are covered.

I think the quality of the responses will depend on how much description of the case is entered.

For my redundancy I did pick one of the solicitors though.

yamaha43

I tried the site on Friday and so far have 5 responses with 3 showing costs, so not bad!

digp

funny that - do you work for them?

hogweed

One thing you might want to check is whether your quote covers selling your old property AND buying the new one. I’m about to move, and every solicitor I contacted quoted me a price which turned out to be only for the purchase, then added on about £700 for the sale when it was time for me to sign! THIS WAS AFTER ASKING ME FOR DETAILS OF BOTH PROPERTIES.

Ask them for a total, bottom-line figure, ie everything you will have to write a cheque to them for. If it's different from what they told you up front, they are trying to mislead you, and you should walk away.

I have saved myself £5-700 by eventually finding an honest one – assuming honest solicitors do in fact exist.