Simpson Solicitors

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We met Jodie at our home on 13th November 2024 to discuss in detail our mirror wills.
We requested that she explained the paragraph headed Trust. whether it was 'fit for purpose' for our needs, which had been troubling me for sometime.
Jodie was incredible both for approachability, her expertise and her very professional manner.
She was able to explain the Trust in great detail and surprised us with saying eight out of ten persons now included this in their wills.
Our extreme thanks to a lady who knows her subject thoroughly and politely answered our many questions.
As appropriate we will no doubt be in touch again. Thank you Jodie

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Came over from Australia to assist my mother when her partner passed. Simpson Solicitors held all the documentation and required us to complete a form to get certified copies and said they would 'get back to us' in 14 days. Despite several emails (I got two bouncebacks to the emails send to the original advisor who had sent me my supposed Power of Attorney), I got no response from the last person in the chain. Phone calls proved fruitless (except for one assistant, Anna who was actually helpful and understand our urgency needing documentation to care for my mother) and I just got the same email from the same department saying '14 days'. Have had to request a solicitors meeting and contact the Law Society to get any information or traction. I do not recommend this company at all and suggest you only get assistance from a small law firm or be bogged down in more paperwork when timing is critical. The assistant that originally visited my mother at the time of probate also, did not follow through with changing the property title deeds and just said 'we'll do that later' meaning, we will do that for another fee.

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Richard - Customer Experience Executive was very helpful and informative. Giving clear and correct information needed before the appointment . He kindly and promptly booked me and my family an appointment with the Legal Advisor .
Very clear at communication.

Ashleigh - Legal Advisor
She clearly defined the process in a detailed , easy to understand manner.
She was very patient in answering all our queries and any misunderstandings we had regarding wills. She is very kind and accomodating.

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This firm do not even deserve one star. The service has been absolutely appalling and prospective clients should go elsewhere. Right Legal were instructed in June 2022 to process my mother's straightforward probate application. We have speedily provided all information requested to keep things moving. For no good reason, the development of the probate application has proceeded at slower than snail's pace. We have politely waited weeks sometimes months for updates and these have only been provided after several emails from us. The firm has upheld two formal complaints from me about slow service and poor communication. Finally the papers came through to sign in November 2023 and the firm verified that they had been received back by them and would be sent on. Unbelievably my sister found out yesterday (April 2024) that the application has still not been submitted!!!

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If I could give Rights zero stars it would be too many. This company took over 2.5 years to do a straight forward probate. We had three different legal advisors. Documents were lost, they were incorrect and try getting them to answer or return your telephone calls - impossible!
Simpsons solicitors added themselves as an executor when updating my dads Will - he had onset dementia and they told him it would be for the best and then told us we needed to use Rights for the Probate. What this resulted in was a costly and extremely drawn out Probate that was handled poorly by Rights. This firm has put our family in great financial and emotional stress. We even reported them to the Legal Ombudsman and won but it still didnt make anything happen any quicker.
Now we are battling with their Document Management Team to get the return of our property docs - its been 4 months so far and they cant even do a simple thing like that correctly.

People giving 5* reviews for the Will service - check it and make sure they havent added themselves in as an executor and if so get it changed immediately and save the sanity of your family.