HCB Solicitors

HCB Solicitors: personal and business legal advice from a network of offices

HCB Solicitors is a law firm that provides legal advice to both private clients and businesses. Its offering is structured around a network of incorporated firms —HCB Solicitors Ltd, HCB Widdows Mason Ltd and HCB Legal Limited— authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, as stated on its own website.

The firm presents itself as an organisation with local presence and national coverage: it maintains offices in England and Wales and states that it continues to grow, so clients can visit their nearest branch. It also notes that its solicitors can travel to the client's home or workplace and provide services outside normal working hours when necessary.

Services for individuals

On the personal side, the firm covers matters of various kinds. Its website lists, among others, the following:

• Conveyancing and residential property.
• Criminal law and defence.
• Education law.
• Employment law.
• Family law.
• Fraud.
• Inquests.
• Probate and estate administration.
• Wills and lifetime planning.
• Bankruptcy / IVA.

The firm also publishes specific fees for certain services, such as probate, motoring offences and unfair dismissal, as well as for residential property conveyancing.

Services for businesses

For corporate clients, HCB Solicitors offers a catalogue covering:

• Commercial property.
• Crime and regulatory.
• Employment.
• Fraud.
• Litigation.
• Professional negligence.
• Residential tenancies.
• Restructuring and insolvency.

The firm presents its model as a way to concentrate as many of a client's matters as possible with a single provider, with the stated aim of saving costs and reducing risks through a long-term relationship.

Sectors served

The website identifies three sectors to which it provides support and advice: care homes, dental practices and education. In the latter area it mentions academy conversions, the process of converting schools into academies within the English system.

Publications and legal news

The firm maintains a news and blog section with analysis of legal topics. Among the visible content are articles on the evolution of the gender gap in GCSE results and on whether a medical condition can constitute a reasonable excuse for failing to provide a sample in a test, signed by Victoria Frampton.

Structure and regulation

Several firms incorporated into the network are grouped under the HCB brand, all of them authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The website also includes a page of accreditations for the firms in the network and a people section, as well as information on terms and conditions of business and a data protection policy.