Money and Finance Help

The Solicitors' Firms Directory is a comprehensive essential reference source of law firms throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.  For Scotland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man you should refer to the International Law Firms Directory. This Money and Finance Directory is extracted from the Solicitors' Firms Directory with additional features to make it particularly user-friendly for the public.

Search features

The search page brings up a number of features for you to choose from.  Don't forget that if you narrow down your search too much and make selections in every field, you will have a very small number of results to view, possibly none at all. You should also check the spelling of any items that are free text fields (such as Town) as misspellings are common causes of 0 results being returned. Once you have made your selections, click 'Search' or use the Return key on your keyboard.  If you want to clear your search and start again for any reason, click on the 'Clear' button.  .

• Town.  This is another free text search field and you can enter a full town name or a part town name.  For example, 'Horn' will return not only Hornchurch but all other town which include 'horn' as four consecutive letters, such as Thornton Heath and Crowthorne. For users of the previous version of this website, do not  use the wild card* if you are unsure of spelling as this will return 0 results on this site.  The part spelling is sufficient on its own.  Although we hold over 600 towns in the database, we do not list every village.  For example, a search on Littlehaven will return 0 results even if there was a sole trader operating from this seaside Welsh village, but a search on Haverfordwest would include every firm in that part of Pembrokeshire.
• Area of Law.  This drop-down menu enables you to select the particular specialities relevant to the Money and Finance legal advice you are looking for in a law firm (note these firms are not necessary authorised to give financial advice by the Financial Services Authority).  Simply highlight the one that most closely matches your enquiry and your results will return all the law firm that offer that expertise. Once you highlight the speciality of your choice, you will see some explanatory text under the screen for your convenience.
• Find your Nearest. Enter your full postcode in the box (this can be your office or your home - indeed from any point you wish to know where your nearest adviser is). Don't forget to search for at least one item in search boxes above, such as 'Area of Law.  However, DO NOT enter a town as well, because if you do that the results will simply show the distance between your postcode and all the firms in that selected town. 

Understanding Your Search Results

Once you have made your selections and either pressed Return or clicked on 'Search' your results will be returned to you on new screen. Don't forget that if you want to conduct a new search at this point you have to select 'new search'.  Your results comprise a number of features to enable you to get the most from your research:

• Title of search.  Your results will tell you what you have just searched on.  For example 'Your search on Reading, revealed 33 record(s). You are already searching on firms with money and finance expertise.
• Number of results displayed.  Each screen can accommodate 50 results and to view the whole of your search you need to click on the 'Next' link at the foot of your search page
• Order of results.  These default to A-Z of Firm Name, listing all the firms who have opted for a Basic Entry in the first A-Z listing.  The other firms who have the free entry providing basic contact details are listed after that. You can switch the order to location by clicking 'Location' on your screen.  This orders your results in the A-Z order of the Location of the firm. If you have selected the 'Find your Nearest' function you results will be ordered in terms of miles from the postcode you entered
• Colour coding and symbols.  The alternating shaded blue stripes enclose the firms who have opted for a Basic Entry where you can click through to their full details. You can do this by clicking on the highlighted Firm Name or on any of the symbols on the right of your screen denoting Map, Email and Weblink.
• Branch/Head Office.  Your results indicate whether the firm name in your results is a Branch or Head Office.  You can access other branches of that firm from their full entry (if they have one)
• Printing your results.  Each screen of results can be printed by clicking on the Print button or using CtrlP on your keyboard.  You should not be compiling databases from these results (see our Terms & Conditions), and if you were interested in renting Waterlow Solicitors lists, click onto Waterlow Direct Marketing.
• Add/Edit Your entry. If you have searched for a particular law firm you know is in operation but has not appeared on this website, please click on this button to provide with details so that we can include the firm, subject to our usual verification process.

Refine Your Search

You can refine your search, retaining all the search criteria you have just selected by clicking on the Refine button situated on the top left side of your results page.  For example, if your search results are bringing up all the Money & Finance law firms in Reading came to 33 or so records and you wanted to refine this by finding out how many offered Fraud as an area of law, you can add this into your search screen and search again.  You should have around 5 results now.

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