
pauline
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Absolutely would not use them again
Unhelpful, antagonistic, inflammatory and not great at responding. Avoid at all costs
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OFFERING PROFESSIONAL AND SUPPORTIVE LEGAL ADVICE TO BOTH PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL CLIENTS FOR OVER 170 YEARS
Also known as - Chadwick Lawrence LLP Solicitors
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pauline
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Unhelpful, antagonistic, inflammatory and not great at responding. Avoid at all costs
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Residential Conveyancing
Graham
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Anyone looking for a conveyancing solicitor please please DO NOT use this company. If I could give no stars I would! There are not enough bad words in the world to describe this company properly. My conveyancing requirements couldn't have been much easier. I had buyers with no chain below them, and my onwards purchase had no chain above it. My move was enforced due to a marriage breakdown, so I was already under unbearable pressure, and CL just made that worse. I ended up going on sock leave from work as I couldn't deal with the pressure. The company was recommended to me by another solicitors and I foolishly took them on without looking into them too closely. I told them that I needed the move completed in 3 months, to which they said it wouldn't be an issue as that's the standard time the process takes. After 2 months of hearing nothing at all and every single form of communication being ignored repeatedly I took it upon myself to physically go to the office. I was told by the intercom at the door that personal visits are by appointment only, but how can you book an appointment with someone who ignores you completely? After refusing to leave until I spoke to someone, I got a phone call saying to searches had just been sent and it will now be 3 months from that point. At the same time I started to receive text messages, e-mails and app notifications, suggesting clearly someone had fished the file from the door it was propping open (or whatever) and started to action the case from that point. Too late at that point. More months of stress and tricky negotiating and I did move, but more by my own work than this anything this questionable company could produce. They clearly have no empathy at all and just hid behind the process and the laws on the couple of occasions when I did force comms out of them. Please save yourself a lot of pain and use someone else
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Residential Conveyancing
Sreejith
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Excellent service. Highly talented team. Helped with a quick turn around for closing the help to buy loan. Highly recommended.
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Wills
Sheila
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Knowledgable staff provide advice on attaining the right will for us. We were given a time scale & price for this service & both were accurate.
I would not hesitate to recommend them or use them again if needed.
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Commercial mortgages
Georgios
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I will briefly describe my experience. Apart from the fact that they were unresponsive to my messages and rude whenever they were replying, they had my mortgage in stalemate for more than two months till they decide to contact the lender, after I pushed them. Then just a week before my offer expires they informed me that my mortgage will not be completed due to issues with the ground rent. Avoid them in any case . My experience was awful loosing time and money. In a few words I will describe them as reckless and unprofessional.
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Shireen
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I used Sam Conveyancing, who then outsourced the work to Kitty Toor at Chadwick Lawrence, for the purchase of my first home. I have to be honest and warn people away from either company. Emails from the solicitor were regularly ignored, nothing was professionally explained (e.g. when enquiries were raised, docs to sign, lease terms etc.) and you were made to feel like an inconvenience even trying to get basic things clarified over email (don't expect anytime over the phone). There were continuous mistakes which caused hold ups resulting in missing the stamp duty holiday (e.g. they told me the searches had been ordered weeks before they had, they failed to inform Help To Buy of some basic mistakes that needed clarifying and some basic documents were left until the very last minute..). They also tried to overcharge me in the final invoice. Finally many weeks after completion I have been receiving letters from HMRC saying that the stamp duty wasn't paid - I have sent three emails asking them to clarify and not received a reply.... I called HMRC and this has now been paid however I could have avoided spending an hour on hold if someone had bothered to reply to my emails... Avoid the extra stress and use a different solicitor.
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Residential Conveyancing
Alex
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please avoid this solicitors at all costs. They are not only dishonest but are absolutely useless and incompetent.
Inconsistency with fees regardless of written conformation, incorrect figures on all documentation none of which actually matched the mortgage figures. Consistantly fail to return telephone calls or emails, accusations of not sending paperwork in when royal mail recorded delivery proves it had been delivered and signed for.
They have got to be the worst solicitors in the area, both the staff and partners do not care about the failings which are numerous and even worse is their attitude towarda the repeated mistakes
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Residential Conveyancing
Jamie
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Probably lost us our house we were purchasing!
Absolutely appalling ‘company’, our mortgage advisor picked Chadwick Lawrence as they were cheap to save us money, and goes to show, you get what you pay for. Unhelpful, rude staff who speak down to you like they’re superior (when you actually manage to track them down that is!)
My partner had a deposit for our house we wished to purchase from a previous property he owned abroad and they treated him like they believed he was a criminal. He bent over backwards trying to prove to them everything was above board, sending them endless documents proving where the deposit had come from (legal documents with The Hague Convention stamp to prove it was authentic and legit) and still they were not satisfied. When he emailed further explaining the deposit money and expressing his unhappiness at being treated with suspicion YET STILL offering to send more documents to prove it was legit, they emailed us saying they were closing our account and refunding our money.
Terrible treatment, CL need to learn to treat people like humans. We were simply trying to buy a home and they’ve made us feel degraded, insulted and like we were under investigation for no reason. Waste of time. There’s a reason for all of their shocking reviews online, they don’t deserve to be practicing!
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Residential Conveyancing
David
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Thank you to Bryony M and Amirah K for there excellent service in dealing with our house sale and house purchase. Very helpful and professional. A good service.
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Small businesses
David
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This has to be the most arrogant legal practice i have ever worked with in business. They don't even offer decent legal opinions so please go somewhere else and save yourself the headache of working with these guys
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We don’t make bold claims about being a “revolutionary” law firm. We don’t say “we’re not like other law firms”. We are. We do law, to the high standards we set for ourselves. We take pride in what we do and we care. We are Yorkshire’s Legal People and we’re here for business and for you. Each and every one of us at Chadwick Lawrence takes pride in: Our Environment Our Work Our Approach As a Firm, we’re proud of: What We’ve Built Our Relationships Our People Our Communities and the Diversity of the People We Serve We offer traditional legal services for both personal and business matters. Services such as Family Law and Conveyancing sit side by side in our personal services, while our business services include matters such as Employment, Commercial Property and Dispute Resolution. Chadwick Lawrence is also one of the few solicitors firms in the area to have specialist Medical Negligence and Sports Law capabilities. Our Values Our services are now delivered from nine offices across West Yorkshire following our merger with Whitaker Firth on 1st July 2019, and our reach is nationwide. Our people, teams and commitment to innovation have won us many awards – making us one of the best legal practices in the region.