Choosing a Solicitor

It’s not possible for us to take on as a client everyone who gets in touch with us at Grigor & Young / Moray Claims.

Why we might not be able to help you directly

• As a relatively small, local firm we may not have capacity to take on the work at the time you contact us. It could be that you need something done urgently and we cannot commit the necessary resources to it at short notice and in the face of an early deadline.

• Another reason we may not be able to take on your case it that it could be in an area of law which we do not cover (e.g. criminal law).

• A different type of problem arises where you have a dispute with another person and they are already a client of Grigor & Young. We would not be able to represent either you or them in relation to that particular matter due to the conflict of interest.

What alternative options are there for you?

Where we cannot help you directly, we are often asked to suggest other Solicitors and Estate Agents in Elgin and we are glad to do so.

We covered this question in a 2014 article on this website.

It’s interesting to see how the legal landscape in Elgin has changed over the intervening period. Some practices have ceased to trade, usually because they have amalgamated with another firm of solicitors, and one or two new businesses have appeared.

The alphabetical list below details some of the well-regarded firms and lawyers in the Elgin area.

It’s not easy to choose a solicitor. 

For anyone trying to select a solicitor for a piece of legal work – from buying a new house to claiming fair compensation for personal injury – a big problem is that all solicitors look much the same. 

You can’t see inside a solicitor’s head so what some of us do to try to give you at least an idea of what goes on in our minds as solicitors is produce educational and informative content.

It’s one way of making the lawyer brain more tangible. 

By content, we mean blog articles, practice-area pages, podcasts and even video. 

The purpose of the content is to give you a better understanding of the sorts of legal problems we can solve for you, how we will go about it and, along the way, an insight into the “personality” of Grigor & Young LLP.  [Read more…]

Donald Trump’s tweet of the year for 2018 may date from as early as 02 January 2018, according to some commentators.

“Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation,” the president explained. “Good news—it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!”

As U.S. late night TV host, Jimmy Kimmel, pointed out, while the president’s comments were true, it was also the case that several previous years had had no commercial aviation fatalities too. In fact, the last recorded death was in 2009. [Read more…]

If you need to engage the services of a solicitor in Scotland, how are going to go about selecting one?

You might already have a solicitor. If he or she is not able to take your case on, for whatever reason, they might be able to recommend a suitable alternative.

Another possibility is that you get a recommendation from a relative or friend who has used a particular solicitor or firm in the past.

If neither of those is an option, what you need is to find a solicitor with clear expertise in the relevant area of law (e.g. Agricultural Law).

How do you establish whether a solicitor is an expert in their field (no pun intended)? [Read more…]