Nalders Solicitors

Nalders Solicitors, a Cornwall practice spanning seven offices

Nalders Solicitors presents itself as one of the largest law firms in Cornwall, with seven offices in Truro, St Austell, Camborne, Falmouth, Helston, Newquay and Penzance. The firm states that it has served local people, families and businesses for more than 225 years, handling legal matters in what it describes as a diligent, timely and cost-effective manner. Its positioning combines what it calls City legal expertise with a down-to-earth setting.

Nalders Solicitors is a trading name of Nalders LLP, a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales (LLP No. OC354499). The firm notes that it is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No. 538003 and that it holds Resolution Accredited Specialist status. Its registered office is Farley House, Falmouth Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2HX.

Work organised across five departments

The practice structures its offering into Business & Employment Law, Property Litigation, Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence, Wills & Probate, and Family. A separate directory allows visitors to find a lawyer by name, and the site lists individual fee earners with their department and role, including partners, senior associates and associates.

Services for businesses and employers

The business side of the practice covers the lifecycle of a company and its workforce. The published service list includes:

• Buying or selling a business, including the sale of a family business
• Starting a charity and choosing a trading vehicle
• Company structures, formation and constitution
• Commercial contracts and commercial disputes
• Commercial property: buy-to-let properties, commercial lease agreements, lease renewals, subletting and assignments, rent review, and site acquisition and disposal
• Employment work: contract negotiation, discrimination at work, employee discipline and disputes, settlement agreements, unfair dismissal and whistleblowing
• Reorganisation and redundancy, winding up and insolvency, succession planning, and data protection/GDPR
• An Employer Protection Scheme

The firm also names the sectors it addresses: agriculture, charities, food and drink, healthcare, holiday and residential parks, lifetime planning, and sport.

Family, children and relationship matters

Family law is broken down into detailed areas rather than presented as a single service. On children, the site lists adoption and fostering, child arrangement orders alongside prohibited steps and specific issue orders, child maintenance, legal aid, parental responsibility, public law proceedings, special guardianship, and surrogacy, sperm and egg donor and transgender issues. For couples, it covers divorce, domestic abuse, financial settlements, high-net-worth divorce, legal aid, and pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Cohabiting couples are addressed through cohabitation agreements and property disputes.

Personal injury, clinical negligence and dispute resolution

The personal injury and clinical negligence department handles accidents at work, catastrophic injuries, CICA claims, industrial disease, MIB claims, personal injury trusts, road accidents, and trips, slips and falls. On the clinical side it lists birth and maternal injuries, dental negligence and clinical negligence generally. The firm advertises a free initial advice clinic for clinical negligence enquiries. Dispute resolution work spans commercial disputes, consumer disputes, contentious wills, landlord and tenant disputes, property disputes, and winding up and insolvency.

Residential property, wills and lifetime planning

For homeowners and private clients, the residential property team covers buying and selling a home, equity release, first-time buyers, new builds, remortgages, residential landlord and tenant advice, and transfer of equity. The wills, probate and lifetime planning department lists deputyship, inheritance tax planning, lasting power of attorney, probate and administering an estate, trusts, and wills.

Client feedback and published commentary

The site reproduces short testimonials attributed to named fee earners, including a partner in the business department, senior associates in the property and private client departments, and an associate in the property department. These describe multi-party business transactions, property sales, and communication and invoicing during matters. The firm also publishes news items written by its lawyers, with recent pieces on NHS negligence claims taking longer to settle, the consequences of concealing finances in a divorce, and the steps from handshake to share purchase agreement when selling a business.