Welcome to Lawracle, the website where consumers can research, compare and engage with solicitors across the entire spectrum of legal services.
The purpose of Lawracle is to allow consumers to view the profiles and credentials of thousands of individual solicitors and lawyers from hundreds of legal practices across the UK, consider their expertise in any given area of legal services and compare their fees against one another before making contact.
Over the coming months the Lawracle website will be developing powerful functionality to allow consumers to search and compare the profiles of thousands of solicitors online. We will be focusing on the individual solicitors and not the legal practices within which the solicitors work. This is driven by the fact that consumers of legal services are more concerned about their relationship with the individual lawyer than they are about the law firm which that lawyer works for. That does not mean to say that the law firm itself is unimportant to the consumer. Quite the opposite. A well appointed law firm standing behind the individual solicitor is vital to that lawyer winning the business. To this end consumers will be able to drill down to find out plenty of information about the law firms once they have chosen a short-list of individual lawyers.
Lawracle will become the online marketplace of solicitors. The Lawracle brand is about helping the consumer of legal services to make informed choices by providing as much relevant information as possible and encouraging complete transparency of fees. Lawracle is driven for the consumer, by the consumer, not for law firms by lawyers. This is an important key differentiator of the Lawracle brand compared to the many other offerings in the marketplace.
When fully developed, the website will be extremely intuitive and user friendly, displaying relevant, detailed information clearly.
Consumers using Lawracle will be encouraged to leave feedback on the services provided by individual solicitors after their case has been finalised and rate the services received for such factors as price, customer service, responsiveness and accessibility. Each solicitor profile will detail all past feedback scores, thus encouraging higher levels of service and better value legal services for consumers.
Those searching for a conveyancing solicitor, help with a probate matter, writing a will or requiring legal assistance with a divorce will be able to carry out detailed research on all available solicitors matching their search criteria. Likewise, business users will also utilise Lawracle to search for and engage with lawyers for specialist contractual, intellectual property or other corporate and commercial matters.
Nothing like Lawracle exists in the marketplace today. There are a number legal directory type websites in existence which allow consumers to search for a law firm online, but it is felt that many of these are poorly conceived, are not particularly well presented, are not optimised for the Search Engines correctly and lack user friendly functionality. Lawracle is set to become the de facto legal services comparison website on the internet. If you wish to find out more about promoting yourself or your law firm's lawyers on the Lawracle website click here to request an information pack