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Ramsdens Solicitors is a leading, award-winning full-service law firm providing legal advice to individuals and businesses across Yorkshire. With a history in the region spanning back more than 150 years, we have expanded to employ more than 280 team members, each of whom are experts in their field. The firm is one of The Times top 250 law firms and ranked in the Legal 500. We can help clients across the UK, no matter who you are and what you require. Read more...
Ramsdens Solicitors LLP
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Client Reviews
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Residential Conveyancing
Linda
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Ramsdens have by far provided the easiest, most informative and professional services. Each member of the team was so helpful and very quick to respond to any of our queries. I would definately use them again in the future. Great value for money!
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Paul
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Many years ago I used to use Ramsdens for the legal work relating to my commercial properties. At first all went well but then they delegated the legal work to a junior solicitor, who did a lease for me and at the end I realised that I got the short end of the stick and my tenant got a better outcome.
So I decided to use a different solicitor and heard nothing more from Ramsdens for about five years - obviously they didn't notice I had left them.
More recently I needed a solicitor for a business litigation issue, so I decided to give Ramsdens another try. At first the solicitor was very friendly and even phoned me to discuss the situation. However, the relationship degraded and in the end I was left feeling dissatisfied with the service. I could go into more details but it's probably better that I don't. The matter was eventually resolved by a surveyor negotiating the issue, not by Ramsdens. My total professional fees for the matter from both Ramsdens and the surveyor amounted to about £10k, which was a significant amount.
Ramsdens sent me an email asking whether they should close their file - before the matter was settled - they were so out of touch with the issue that they didn't know that it had not been resolved.
If this matter had gone well I would have returned to Ramsdens for my commercial properties business but I wasn't left with a good feeling for them. They also seemed obsessed with their billing hours rather than solving my problem.
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Matter Type:
Remortgaging
Christopher
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I used this solicitors to complete a remortgage on a leasehold flat and it took 5 weeks from posting the form to completion. Very happy with the service they provided, kept me informed the whole way and their fees were reasonable, they have an online portal that you can check the progress of your case which means you don’t have to call up and check every day which is a very handy, very professional and a good service. I have dealt with other solicitors in the past and by far they are the best.
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Rob
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The solicitors are Ramsdens are extremely friendly, helpful and fast to respond to any questions or queries throughout. There was always a member of staff available to contact and they made the purchase of our first home a straightforward and fluent process.
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Residential Conveyancing
stephen
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I cannot praise this solicitor enbough; they made what would have been an incredibly stressful house sale into a breeze. Everything from communication, response time, and advice was second to none. I would personally like to thank Stephanie, who was our caseworker, she was absolutely brilliant, and we couldn't have asked for anyone better. I would highly recommend this solicitor, and they will be our first choice when repurchasing a house. Thank you
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Residential Conveyancing
Kevin
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I recently used Ramsdens to sell and purchase properties albeit with a small gap in between and I have to say that the service received from Stephanie Crowther and the team was fantastic. Stephanie has a really helpful and positive attitude which even made paying the bill seem a pleasure!!!!
I would not hesitate to use them again.
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Ali
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Many thanks to Rachel, Will and Ethan with all their help and communication with out long drawn out 8 month house purchase. Highly recommend
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Matter Type:
Residential Conveyancing
Denise
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Bought and sold properties and received excellent service.
Efficient, kept up updated every step of the way and all sorted in 2 months.
Charlotte Nelson a great asset to your team.
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Residential Conveyancing
Paul
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I cannot recommend Ramsdens hightly enough. They dealt with the sale of my apartment with care and speed. There were lease difficulties which they managed very effectively and the cost was as estimated.
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Residential Conveyancing
David
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Could not recommend Ramsdens Solicitors more. They have definitely changed my opinion regards to solicitors when it comes to buying and selling property. They always answered the phone quickly and knew who I was and what was going on with the matter. When action needed to be taken they would do so off their own back without prompting or chasing. Thanks for making the conveyancing process quick, easy and as stress free as you possibly could.
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Matt
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Truly ABYSMAL Divorce lawyer service.AVOID at all cost.
I started my divorce proceedings with a Ramsden's Lawyer who ,half way through dropped it on me that she was retiring with 5days notice.
After i'd spent months of time & thousands of pounds giving her the details of my finances,assets &divorce details, I was told via email she was retiring.
On many occasions i was charged again & again for supplying them with information i had already given them.First the supplied information was lost by an office junior person who had then changed departments.This resulted in me having to duplicate already submitted bank account statements & many emails of information & being charged over & again.Clearly a tactic to ramp up their fees.A con.
I was paying very high premium for a lawyer i had researched & had specifically chosen to carry out the process.
She was disinterested, lacked motivation , compassion & care.Im not convinced the reviews on her were genuine given the diabolical service I received. The only time her interest was shown was when she wanted the invoices paying.I now know this is Ramsden's only priority when dealing with their customers/clients.They even threaten you with interest charges if your payment is delayed.I'm not even sure this is legal.They also encourage you to set up direct debits so they can take your money monthly rather than for actual work done as per invoices.
At the begging of her service i was paying £196 +VAT per hour for the particular lawyer i had researched & carefully selected.I spent months paying her to process all my information.
On the 23rd December 22 i received an email from her saying her hourly rate was going up to £260+VAT from 1st of January.Within 2months of this massive price increase I received another email informing me she was retiring in 5 days and my case was passed on to someone else.To someone i hadn't researched or chosen to assist me with my divorce proceedings & who had no idea of my circumstances.
Worse still all the information i had previosly submitted was misplaced again & i had to start over again with a new person & pay all over again to resubmit all my information.
This also wasted much time and caused great frustration to the opposing solicitors who were awaiting the information for the upcoming proceedings.
So Ramsden's absolutely breathtaking incompetence was making it look like i was delaying proceedings.I met with my soon to be ex wife several times to explain that the solicitors were messing me around.She agreed that they were using stalling tactics to maximise their profits from our case.
i repeatedly contacted Ramsden's to tell them what an atrocious service i was been provided with, & they were only interested in anything to do with me paying their invoices rather than sorting the problems.
I paid all invoices on time.Paying again to duplicate information i'd already provided at different times to different people.It was the most
frustrating stressful experience.
I was asked for & charged for information that wasn't even relevant or used.A disgraceful tactic to ramp up fees.There was no care or consideration for the awful impact this was having on my health and well being.They did not listen to or read the information correctly and errors were made continuously.
When the divorce case finally got to court, the barrister Ramsden's recommended to me was truly terrible.
I had been given a statement by Ramsden's.They said the barrister had prepared the plans.I read them & thought it was reasonable & may help achieve a fair outcome financially.
I paid £2000 upfront for the barrister for half a day.On the day in court she had no idea of any of the details & it was clear that she had not prepared anything for my case.I was lied to by Ramsdem's.
She achieved a terrible outcome financially.Afterwards the barrister refunded me half the fee due to the abysmal service. Ramsden's should refund the £20,000 duped from me for such an abysmal service too.I estimate they lost me nearly £100,000 in the outcome due to incompetance.
AVOID AT ALL COST
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Mike
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Friendly and efficient Notary service
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Aiden
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I’ve had only positive experiences so far dealing with Ramsdens Huddersfield. Rebecca Koncewiz & Joanne Doyle particularly have delt with a number of cases regarding residential mortgage legal works for me and I will continue to use them going forward.
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Mandy
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Very rude solicitor i had spoken too at this solicitor firm yesterday morning, regarding family matter, I think she was Asian lady she came cross so cold. I don’t recommend using this solicitors
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Matter Type:
Change of name
Louise
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Required a deed poll and they saw me within a couple of days. Quick and professional service, highly recommend.
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Ramsdens Solicitors is a leading, award-winning full-service law firm providing legal advice to individuals and businesses across Yorkshire. With a history in the region spanning back more than 150 years, we have expanded to employ more than 280 team members, each of whom are experts in their field. The firm is one of The Times top 250 law firms and ranked in the Legal 500. We can help clients across the UK, no matter who you are and what you require.
