Farnfield & Nicholls is a long established practice with four partners and three offices in Dorset and Wiltshire. With more than 60 staff we are one of the major legal practices in our area.
Farnfield & Nicholls is a long established and successful four-partner practice with offices in Gillingham and Shaftesbury in North Dorset and Warminster in West Wiltshire. Our experience and size gives us the depth and breadth of personnel and technological support to provide a wide range of quality legal services to both business and individual clients.
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Farnfield and Nicholls, solicitors, the leading law firm in North Dorset and West Wiltshire, has been awarded the Law Society’s practice management standard, Lexcel.
Lexcel is a scheme for law practices to certify that certain standards have been met following independent assessment. The Lexcel practice management standard is only awarded to solicitors firms which meet the highest management and client care standards. Lexcel-accredited practices undergo rigorous independent assessment every year to ensure they meet required standards of excellence in areas such as client care, case management and risk management.
“By successfully gaining Lexcel accreditation, Farnfield and Nicholls is proving their commitment to delivering a high quality service”, commented Law Society President, Paul Marsh. “The Law Society’s Lexcel standard is a prestigious achievement for any practice. Clients can feel reassured that they will receive a service which is first class, committed, focused and businesslike.”
Farnfield and Nicholls has offices in Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Warminster. It is one of only eight private law practices in Dorset and six private law practices in Wiltshire which have achieved the Lexcel accreditation.
Associate Solicitor and Quality Manager, Clare Gundry, who was responsible for overseeing the firm's application, comments "Every member of staff within Farnfield and Nicholls has worked incredibly hard over the last year to embrace the new procedures, and the improvements we have made to our existing working practices, in order to enhance our delivery of legal services for the benefit of all our clients.".
The Lexcel standard requires law practices to continually monitor, review and adapt working practices to ensure that standards are not only maintained, but where possible improved. Managing Partner, Guy Lowton, says "The partners recognise the importance of delivering legal services of the highest quality and identified the Lexcel standard as the ultimate benchmark. We are delighted to have achieved this prestigious standard and both we and our clients are already seeing the benefits of this new culture".
