This article was first published in the January/February edition of the Internet Newsletter.
In this short series I have looked at Quality Solicitors, a very new player run by a barrister for solicitors, and Contact Law, a non solicitor run organisation which started in 2005. LawNet is very different from both of these.
Started in 1989 [...]
I can remember, back in 1994 when set up in sole practice, after I had decided to get myself a computer to run it, buying a computer magazine. It was completely incomprehensible. There were all these references to normal sounding things like windows and buses, but they did not make sense. I [...]
Contact Law are big players in the solicitors referral field. The company was started in 2005 by James Vintin and Dan Watkins as they felt that there was an opening for a service to help members of the public find a suitable solicitor. They were also interested in developing services to help solicitors deal with [...]
About a month or so ago I was asked by Delia Venables of The Internet Newsletter (discussed in my previous post here) to write an article about the new Quality Solicitors organisation. The article has now been written and you will be able to read it in the Internet Newsletter September 09 issue. However as [...]
An exciting new development (referred to in an article in the Guardian today) is the Law Bazaar, set up by solicitor Costas Andrea. Sickened by the huge sums made by claims companies simply for referring cases to solicitors (the people who do the actual work) he has set up a new web-site where clients can [...]
