Legal comparison sites "underused"
Online directories and comparison websites such as lawyerlocator.co.uk and legallybetter.com are an under-used resource for lawyers in the liberalised legal marketplace.
Journalist Jon Robins, writing in the NLJ, says that the success of these sites will be driven by consumers rather than lawyers, who have so far demonstrated a lacklustre approach towards these potential business generators.
A report this month by the Legal Services Consumer Panel found that solicitors were failing to pick up leads generated by comparison websites, a fact described as “staggering” by the panel’s chair Elisabeth Davies.
