Law Partners personal injury firm

I been a client of Law Partners personal injury firm from 2018-04 till 2020-06. After the injury itself this is the second thing, I wish that would not happen in my life. For me dealing with Law Partners was truly retraumatizing experience. It started path of the misery that I still cannot get out of

I was represented by solicitor Gillian Potts and barrister Ken Pryde, who technically is not a part a part of Law Partners, but according to himself works with them a lot.

The list of problems is very long. I have 2 complaints against them with Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner.

Cost agreement

I signed cost agreement with Law Partners on 2018-04-10. I have only paper version of it, so I tried to convert it to text from scanned document, but the result is not good: Law Partners cost agreement. I will edit when I have a chance, but because I need to use it often while preparing application for supreme court cost assessment, I finally decided to add it too.

Law Partners bill

1. Charge for all phone calls and emails twice: as part of other items and additionally individually just calls or correspondence, even if by the contract they were already covered by other items and should not be charged additionally (items: 1, 2, 3, 5).
2. Charge for the tasks they have not performed, but simply asked the client to provide final information (item 4).
3. I had a look at 34 general communication items: 7 have no correspondence, 6 were just notifications of appointments, for notification of one appointment with Dr Khan they charge 4 times. None of them should have been charged based on the contract.
4. They made 2 mathematical errors and charge extra $3,210.01.

Analysis of Law Partners itemized bill (incomplete). Analyzing bill according to supreme court cost assessment requirements is a good way to look at itemized bill as you may need to go there if negotiations fail. It will also give better understanding where you are. Media Wiki is not the best tool for this as you need to calculate sums and I do not know how to do it using Media Wiki, so I am using spread sheets instead.

Review on Google Maps

I was looking for solutions what to do with Law Partners fees. I did not find solution for fees, but I found interesting story that has surprising amount of similarities to mine. I would like to share it Google Maps review by g b. Review is by user with initial g b. He has local guide ranking on google maps and the review seems genuine. It is about Parramatta office, but in my view it still applies to Sydney office too. I place a copy of this review here.

My review

I left review about my experience too; you can find it on Google Maps. below is a copy of my review and replies.

Alfonsas Stonis about start of January 2024

I been a client of Law Partners personal injury firm from 2018-04 till 2020-06. After the injury itself this is the second thing, I wish that would not happen in my life. For me dealing with Law Partners was truly retraumatizing experience. It started path of the misery that I still cannot get out of. I felt completely misrepresented and after little work done, I was hit with legal fees over $170,000.

Every day I wish I would never hire them.

Response from the owner

Hi Alfonsas,

We understand just how difficult experiencing an injury can be. That’s why we strive to support our clients throughout the claims process to help them get all the compensation that they are entitled to.

As you know, our team have been working hard to get you an outcome to your claim that you are satisfied with. To protect your privacy, we will not go into any further details of your case.

If you’d like to discuss the details of your case further, please reach out to me on 9264 4474.

Shane Butcher,

Principal.

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1. Dealing with Law Partners was retraumatizing experience
2. As far as I know, your team did very little and made sure I get unsatisfactory outcome
3. OK, I will share details of my experience dealing with Law Partners, so others can learn from it: https://roadtrafficinjury.net/index.php/Law_Partners_personal_injury_firm