Solicitors Fees

[leenie]

you should get onto TacadoirArdMhacha........ never know he could do it for free he seems a decent bloke... oh who am i kidding he's from Armagh.... so he charge double

[Master Yoda]

Solictors are a load of f**king crooks.

Got quotes off a number of Solicitors recently for conveyencing fees, picked one that I thought was reasonable went through with the house purchase got the Solicitors fees which turned out to be nearly 4 times as much as his orginal quote due he says to the ammount of unseen work that was involved.

Law Society regulations now require though that u have to receive a Home Charter quote for your work which you have to sign sayin ur happy with - will give u your professional fee and outlays so ur never gona go much outside them brackets - what extra work was involved and how much did his fee go up by?

His orginal professnal fee was £400 plus costs for searchs and the like and he is trying to charge me £1400 plus costs. He maintains he had serious bother getting information from the other Solicitor that he had to keep writing, phoning and emailing them to get it and when it did come through it was in drips and drabs meaning he had to keep going back to it and that it took up a serious amount of his time. Bastard

[tyrone girl]

Thats bull, there is a set professional fee based on the price of the house you are purchasing /selling. It should only go up if there were serious issues surrounding the title of the house etc. Waiting on documents back and forward shouldnt cause a raise in £1000 of his fee - thats ridiculous. Searches and the likes are always in round the £100 mark , mostly less and Land Reg fees would be anything from 100 to 350 depending again on purchase price but thats all included in outlay - not the professional fee.

[pintsofguinness]

Solictors are a load of f**king crooks.

Got quotes off a number of Solicitors recently for conveyencing fees, picked one that I thought was reasonable went through with the house purchase got the Solicitors fees which turned out to be nearly 4 times as much as his orginal quote due he says to the ammount of unseen work that was involved.

Law Society regulations now require though that u have to receive a Home Charter quote for your work which you have to sign sayin ur happy with - will give u your professional fee and outlays so ur never gona go much outside them brackets - what extra work was involved and how much did his fee go up by?

His orginal professnal fee was £400 plus costs for searchs and the like and he is trying to charge me £1400 plus costs. He maintains he had serious bother getting information from the other Solicitor that he had to keep writing, phoning and emailing them to get it and when it did come through it was in drips and drabs meaning he had to keep going back to it and that it took up a serious amount of his time. b**tard

Pure bullshit.  Tell him to f**k off, threaten to report him to the law society.
ONly thing he should be charging more for is if he's to work on a title issue, and they tell you what they have to do and how much it will cost and dont do anything until you agree! Where you selling or buying btw?

[SuperHans]

hi dont generalise them corporate/ commercial solcitors do charge high rates.

us legal aid lawyers are under paid and over worked!

[Rav67]

hi dont generalise them corporate/ commercial solcitors do charge high rates.

us legal aid lawyers are under paid and over worked!

f**king right! The things is firms don't even make ££ from legal aid after they pay salaries, it's more done out of a social duty and to publicise the name of the firm for more profitable activities (probate etc).

As for the conveyancing Master Yoda - we'd always charge £650 or £750 plus VAT for a purchase depending on size and whether it's freehold or leasehold. All conveyancing is really fixed fee now so he can't really get away with charging that.

There is case law to the effect that a costs estimate is taken as a quote now essentially.  If he refuses to budge down write to the Legal Complaints Service, they've been set up recently to handle such matters and operate independently of the Law Society.

[whiskeysteve]

I expected a couple of schisters like the above to come out of the woodwork at some stage to defend their bloodsucking.

Fact is the majority of lawyers feed off any and every business development and produce f**k all themselves. A shower of self serving back scratching schisters who use smokescreen language and buzzwords to justify outrageous fees for signing letters, making calls and other brief (and very routine) tasks.

Ask anyone who runs a business, solicitors routinely stall done deals with prolonged correspondence with their brethern blood suckers and then expect a pound of flesh for wasting your time. COMPLETE LEECHES!!

[pintsofguinness]

I expected a couple of schisters like the above to come out of the woodwork at some stage to defend their bloodsucking.

Fact is the majority of lawyers feed off any and every business development and produce f**k all themselves. A shower of self serving back scratching schisters who use smokescreen language and buzzwords to justify outrageous fees for signing letters, making calls and other brief (and very routine) tasks.

Ask anyone who runs a business, solicitors routinely stall done deals with prolonged correspondence with their brethern blood suckers and then expect a pound of flesh for wasting your time. COMPLETE LEECHES!!

Sure what does a business want a solicitor for if they feel like that?  Considering the routine tasks solicitors do I'm sure someone in the business could do them, could they not?  I'm sure there's no chance of a business being ripped off in a deal that hasn't been ironed out by a solicitor.   

[Rois]

Jeez Steve, you have a bit of a problem with solicitors then?  If they're charging money for nothing, just hire an inhouse solicitor and save a few pounds. 

Corporate lawyers in my experience have often saved their clients hundreds of thousands with their advice on acquisitions, structuring deals, identifying onerous contracts etc.  It doesn't happen every time, and not all of the work of solicitors is the big ticket stuff, but they take on a bit of risk (of litigation) in every piece of work they do and are entitled to charge fees commensurate with it.

[Jimmy Two Times]

I expected a couple of schisters like the above to come out of the woodwork at some stage to defend their bloodsucking.

Fact is the majority of lawyers feed off any and every business development and produce f**k all themselves. A shower of self serving back scratching schisters who use smokescreen language and buzzwords to justify outrageous fees for signing letters, making calls and other brief (and very routine) tasks.

Ask anyone who runs a business, solicitors routinely stall done deals with prolonged correspondence with their brethern blood suckers and then expect a pound of flesh for wasting your time. COMPLETE LEECHES!!

Majority of lawyers?

Rubbish....and the derogatory term that you are trying to spell is shyster...

[Master Yoda]

Solictors are a load of f**king crooks.

Got quotes off a number of Solicitors recently for conveyencing fees, picked one that I thought was reasonable went through with the house purchase got the Solicitors fees which turned out to be nearly 4 times as much as his orginal quote due he says to the ammount of unseen work that was involved.

Law Society regulations now require though that u have to receive a Home Charter quote for your work which you have to sign sayin ur happy with - will give u your professional fee and outlays so ur never gona go much outside them brackets - what extra work was involved and how much did his fee go up by?

His orginal professnal fee was £400 plus costs for searchs and the like and he is trying to charge me £1400 plus costs. He maintains he had serious bother getting information from the other Solicitor that he had to keep writing, phoning and emailing them to get it and when it did come through it was in drips and drabs meaning he had to keep going back to it and that it took up a serious amount of his time. b**tard

Pure bullshit.  Tell him to f**k off, threaten to report him to the law society.
ONly thing he should be charging more for is if he's to work on a title issue, and they tell you what they have to do and how much it will cost and dont do anything until you agree! Where you selling or buying btw?

The reason he has put his price up is because he said he had to spend so much time on it and he has charged us at £150 per/hr.
Was buying and selling Pints but this bill is just for the buying part.