More succinctly, in the United Kingdom, the Legal Services Act 2007 (Act) specifies some legal services as “unreserved” legal services. These services can be performed by a non-solicitor such as Law graduates. This allows new entrants into the legal services sector to be more flexible whilst maintaining the quality the legal services sector provides.

In recent years, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, more people appreciated the provision of legal service across borders, without the need to visit a high street law firm before receiving the same quality of service that high street law firms promise.

What’s more, the cost of the required professional indemnity insurance (PII) that a regulated law firm must incur  increased significantly and continues to do so. In many instances, the PII increased up to five-fold even when a firm has no PII claims. The resulting effect is that some firms can no longer continue to do business while the domino effect on those in business means ‘increased legal cost’ for clients.

In summary, here are some key points of using a  Regulated Law Firm for your Legal Services.

  1. The firm has insurance to protect you, should you receive any service without professional conduct.
  1. Employed Staff are regulated by the SRA therefore, you can complain to the SRA should things go wrong.
  1. You are covered by the Legal Ombudsman.

What is the eLegal Factor and how we are different

At eLegal Consultants we mainly perform unreserved legal services directly and reserved legal services working hand in hand with our Partners. Therefore, we are able to keep cost low which in turn benefit our various Clients.

We employ regulated SRA (Solicitors Regulatory Authority) members as well as CILEX (Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) members. With this in place, it means that professionally, the Human Resources providing the services are regulated and must follow the regulations governing professionals regulated by the relevant authorities.

How do you benefit:

  • We only employ regulated lawyers, Legal Executives and Paralegals.
  • We only work with partners who are either regulated or employ regulated professionals.
  • You can be assured that your work is being done by  professionals with no previous record of negligence or professional misconduct.
  • We have our Professional indemnity Insurance
  • We do not keep Client’s Money besides those used to execute matters with third parties for disbursement purposes.
  • You may complain to SRA, CILEX or the Legal Ombudsman if you are unhappy about the service received.
  • We offer top-notch legal services at a reduced cost, more affordable than most firms.

Consequently, although our firm is not regulated, we only employ and work with regulated professionals and firms. This means our services are only delivered by experienced professionals and you have the same protection as though you are receiving your service from a regulated firm but at a fraction of the Cost.

Contact us or book a free consultation to kickstart a simplified, but excellent experience!

We are here to hold your hand through every service and/or legal battle.

We look forward to meeting you.