Lyons Davidson Solicitors

Lyons Davidson Solicitors: legal advice for businesses and individuals in the UK

Lyons Davidson Solicitors is a UK-based law firm that structures its offering into two main areas: business legal services and personal legal services. The firm presents itself as an accessible and approachable practice, with clear fees and, where possible, fixed in advance, and with language that avoids legal jargon. It also offers an online portal so clients can check the progress of their case and contact the person responsible for it.

Business legal services

The business area covers corporate and commercial law, commercial real estate and pension property law, data protection and GDPR, property development, pension property, employment and transactions. In the employment field, the firm advises on managing people and executive dismissals. It also covers commercial disputes, as well as debt collection and enforcement.

Personal legal services

For individuals, the firm handles family and divorce matters, including relationships and finances, care proceedings, international child abduction, arrangements for children, domestic abuse and forced marriage. In housing, it works on renting, property disputes and landlord and tenant issues.

The firm also handles personal injury claims arising from accidents and injuries at work, motorcycling and cycling accidents, catastrophic and fatal injuries, and head and spinal injury claims, including fatal accident claims. In the area of wills and probate, it offers wills, trusts and estate planning services, as well as will disputes.

Other personal services include problems at work, making a claim, redundancy, settlement agreements and their costs, medical negligence, consumer rights, faulty goods, building disputes, professional negligence and driving offences.

Online and insurance services

The firm has a customer portal and online documents, along with a legal hub. Through Lyons Davidson Insurance Services it offers legal expenses and helpline, motor recoveries and property recoveries, defendant legal services, and Meruit and costs services.

Structure and presence

The firm has a specific division in Scotland, Lyons Davidson Scotland, and publishes information about its board and its team of experts. Its policies and standards include corporate responsibility, sustainability, diversity, ISO 27001 certification, its service standards, the complaints procedure and the right to cancel. It also offers career programmes, vacancies, training, apprenticeships and a rewards and benefits system for employees.

Publications and legal news

The firm maintains a blog with analysis on topics such as the use of secret recordings in family courts, the relevance of ESG criteria for small businesses and the development of employment tribunals from start to finish.