Second Opinion Solicitors
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£ 250 m+assets litigated over in the last 12 months
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500 +cases handled in the last 2 years
Unhappy with your lawyer? Get sound commercial advice, or let our litigation experts take over your case
If you’re involved in a commercial or property dispute or existing court proceedings and are dissatisfied with your current firm, our experienced litigation solicitors can help.
It’s not uncommon to hire a firm to represent you in a dispute, only to find later that they lack the expertise or ability to genuinely get to grips with your case.
Perhaps you were attracted to a local firm or a trusted lawyer who has handled transactional work (buying and selling property, etc.) for you or your family for years.
In such instances, and many others, the complexity and importance of your claim or defence is downplayed or misunderstood.
Unfortunately, such circumstances are all too common in legal claims and disputes.
We’re regularly instructed after court proceedings have already been issued or when claims and defences are well advanced.
If your trust and confidence in the people you’re instructing has slipped or you feel mistakes have been made, don’t wait until it’s too late to get a second opinion or consider a change.
At Helix Law, we are often contacted by other solicitors, barristers, companies, and investors who seek to introduce or instruct us into ongoing and existing claims, disputes and litigation.
We are well-equipped to assess your position and share our views on how best to achieve a successful outcome.
The Civil Procedure Rules set out the processes and rules that govern litigation.
But, how your legal representative positions you in negotiations and litigation is fundamentally important and often undervalued or misunderstood in achieving a successful outcome to your dispute.
At Helix Law, we think creatively about deploying all the tools in our legal armoury to advance or protect your position.
As solicitors with commercial acumen, we treat your case as if it were our own and only give advice we would take ourselves in similar circumstances.
Few solicitors are prepared to back their advice with no-win, no-fee or alternative funding arrangements.
We are happy to offer conditional fee agreements where it stacks up for you and for us.
Too often, we hear from clients about firms that minimise their concerns or are unapproachable and aloof — sometimes to the point where they won’t even answer the phone.
Our expert team is utterly fluent in legal language, but we’re also unafraid to get to the point.
We will tell you upfront if we don’t think you can win your case.
If there’s risk (there’s always risk), we’ll advise you on how to minimise it and what we would do if we were in your shoes.
You can expect transparency, expertise, two-way communication, and commercial acumen as a Helix Law client.
Getting a Second Opinion
Initially, we will work with you to understand the basic details of your case.
Our specialist team has decades of experience, and it rarely takes long for us to get up to speed.
With your input, we’ll thoroughly review the facts and documents relevant to the dispute.
If court proceedings have already been issued, we’ll examine the pleadings, claim forms, particulars, any court orders, and your summary.
We usually charge for the above review, but we’re happy to have an initial discussion about the matter with you before we go in-depth.
Just contact us here and request a call back.
If you proceed with a detailed assessment, we’ll be well-equipped to advise you on how best to protect your position and what steps must be taken to achieve the most desirable outcome.
Should we agree with you or your legal representative’s current approach after careful review, we will happily advise you to stay the course.
We also won’t hesitate to say if we flag something as unusual or disagree with the current legal approach.
Changing Lawyers
At Helix Law, we never suggest alternative legal strategies just to win new clients.
When it comes to building relationships with clients and taking instructions, we always take a longer-term view.
Our experience and expertise enable us to look beyond ‘what’ has been said to ‘how’ it was said to give you a confident assessment of whether you’re on the right track or need to course correct.
If we believe you can achieve a more favourable outcome by pursuing a different strategy or course of action, we will advise you on the alternatives and thoroughly explain why.
Changing solicitors is technically straightforward, and we’re routinely instructed to do so.
At your request, Helix will file and serve a Notice of Change of Legal Representative (N434) and take over the running and management of your case.
Our solicitors have many decades of coal-face litigation experience acting in commercial, property, and construction disputes nationwide for clients based in the UK and internationally.
We are one of — if not ‘the’ — largest specialist litigation teams in the South East of England.
Helix Law frequently assumes the conduct of litigation where larger firms were initially instructed, but the client’s interests are lost in a haze of internal processes and inadequate communication.
If you’re involved in existing court proceedings and considering alternative legal representation, we’d love to hear from you.
Just fill out the contact form.
We aim to respond to all queries within an hour.
Outstanding Reviews from Real Business People
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People frequently tell us that we’re approachable and offer great advice.
They also tell us most solicitors are hard to get hold of whereas we’re happy to listen. The reason for this is that we value long term relationships and we’re happy to speak with business people, to invest our time in understanding your business and whatever your concerns are. Only at that point can we understand whether we’re the right people to help you.