Abortive legal fees - challenge or not?

GDB2222

ryanm8655 said:

Hi all,

I'd already paid them £600 so it's only another £96.12 but given how poor they were... (the solicitors for my new purchase are both slightly cheaper and far more organised/communicative).

I'm interested that you're getting on better with the new firm of solicitors. I was going to say something trite about not choosing the cheapest firm, but apparently the new firm are both better and cheaper!

There's a lot of mundane work involved in conveyancing, and most of it is done by non-solicitors. That works pretty well until something comes up that requires more expertise. 

 

ryanm8655

GDB2222 said:

ryanm8655 said:

Hi all,

I'd already paid them £600 so it's only another £96.12 but given how poor they were... (the solicitors for my new purchase are both slightly cheaper and far more organised/communicative).

I'm interested that you're getting on better with the new firm of solicitors. I was going to say something trite about not choosing the cheapest firm, but apparently the new firm are both better and cheaper!

There's a lot of mundane work involved in conveyancing, and most of it is done by non-solicitors. That works pretty well until something comes up that requires more expertise. 

 

Yeah, that’s what was most disappointing. They’re a relatively large regional firm and nowhere near the cheapest quote I got (one of the pricier ones) but they came recommended.

i think I just got unlucky with who was given my case. That and they clearly hadn’t forked out for case management software that would have automatically updated me and saved them time/helped them to be more organised/responsive.

Everything was paper based, new firm I upload everything online (they’re also local).