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The right lawyer. Right now.
Most people need a lawyer at the worst moment of their year, know nobody who does that job, and start with a search engine full of adverts. We're trying to make that first hour less awful.
What the site does today
- Matches what you type to an area of law, in your words rather than legal ones.
- Gives you first steps, the deadlines that catch people out, and the free services that can help.
- Sends you to the official register for England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, where every solicitor listed is regulated.
What it doesn't do yet
There is no directory of firms on this site yet, and no reviews. The listings shown in the phone illustration on the home page are samples, drawn to show what's coming — they aren't real firms, and we'd rather say so than pad the site out with invented ones.
There is no app yet either. When there's something to download, we'll say so here first.
What we won't do
Legal directories make their money in ways that don't always serve the person with the problem: selling one enquiry to several firms, burying paid placement, or letting firms bury bad reviews. We've written down what we won't do on the for lawyers page, before we've built the thing — so it's easy to check later whether we stuck to it.
Who's behind it
NeedALawyer.co.uk is an independent UK project. It is not a law firm, it is not a claims management company, and it doesn't give legal advice. Email hello@needalawyer.co.uk — a person reads it.