Lawson West Solicitors is a distinguished law firm with over 40 years of experience, offering expert legal advice across a wide range of personal and business matters. Known for their welcoming, supportive, and dependable approach, they stand out through their commitment to building genuine client relationships and providing confident, knowledgeable legal support from offices in Leicester and Market Harborough.
The firm employs a team of talented and approachable professionals who excel in translating complex legal jargon into understandable terms, ensuring clients feel informed and empowered. They serve both individual and business clients, with a strong focus on personalized service and overcoming legal obstacles together at every stage of life and business. Their values of being welcoming, confident, supportive, knowledgeable, and dependable resonate throughout their practice.
Services Offered
- Employment Law for Employees (including discrimination, dismissal, settlement agreements, redundancy, employment tribunal claims)
- Disability Discrimination (covering various types including arthritis, ADHD, autism, bipolar, cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic fatigue/ME, COPD, chronic pain, Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, dyslexia, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, hearing loss, HIV, IBS, PMDD, menopause, migraine)
- Discrimination (age, race, religion and belief, ethical veganism, sex/gender/orientation, women’s health & rights, men’s rights, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, parental leave, gender neutrality, equal pay, marriage/civil partnership, associated discrimination, health discrimination, mental health discrimination)
- Dismissal (constructive unfair dismissal, unfair dismissal, redundancy)
- Pregnancy at Work (discrimination, dismissal whilst pregnant, maternity leave, keeping in touch days, paid time off, returning from maternity leave, paternity leave)
- Flexible Working
- Reasonable Adjustments
- Remedies
- Settlement Agreements (negotiation, high value agreements, calculation)
- Employment Mediation
- Employment Tribunal Claims
- Funding (no win no fee, legal expenses insurance)
- Other Employment Matters (holiday entitlement, holiday pay & overtime, unlawful deduction from wages, contracts of employment, restrictive covenants, TUPE, employment tribunal fees, whistleblowing, retirement)
- Divorce & Family Law (divorce, civil partnerships & separation, fixed-fee no fault divorce, separation agreements, annulments, dissolution of civil partnerships, cohabiting couples)
- Finances (division of capital assets, pensions on divorce, child & spousal maintenance, financial disclosure, court process for financial remedies, re-marriage trap)
- Children (child arrangements orders, enforcement, specific issue orders, prohibited steps orders, holidays, internal & external relocation, special guardianship orders, grandparents rights, court process for children)
- Relationship Planning (nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, TOLATA – property ownership in relationships)
- Mediation
- Change of Name by Deed
- Court Preparation
- Court of Protection (dementia & Alzheimer’s, brain injury, learning differences, autism and children lacking capacity, deputyship, professional deputyship/attorneyship, appointeeship, statutory wills, gifting applications, deliberate deprivation of assets, court-ordered trustee appointment, challenging an attorney or deputy)
- Probate, Wills & Trusts (probate & estate administration, intestacy, international estate administration, lasting powers of attorney, trusts & estate planning, wills & types of will protection, writing your will)
- Conveyancing (residential conveyancing, right to buy, shared ownership & new build homes, joint ownership of property, remortgages & transfer of equity, stamp duty, HM Land Registry & title deeds, help to buy property loans)
- Employment & HR for Employers (dismissing an employee, settlement agreements, employment contracts & terms & conditions, employment tribunals, ACAS, leave relating to parenthood, performance management, redundancy, equal opportunities, TUPE)
- Buying & Selling a Business
- Commercial Property & Real Estate (pension schemes, land for development, purchase/sale of land, promotion agreements, overage agreements, option agreements, acquisition & disposal, property owned by a business, buying/selling properties, auction properties, commercial mortgage)
- Services for Landlords & Tenants (commercial landlords, commercial tenants, leases & renewals, licence to assign, deed of variations, licence for alterations, rent deposits, lease extensions)
- Secured Lending (bridging loans)
- Agricultural & Bare Land (agricultural tenancies/farm business tenancies, buying & selling agricultural land, easements & wayleaves)
- Commercial Property Disputes
- Title Splits
- Telecommunications
- Utilities & Renewable Energy
- Corporate & Commercial (mergers, acquisitions & disposals, succession planning & retirement, buying/selling a business, mergers & de-mergers, investment management, buy-outs and buy-ins, business restructuring, share buy-back, capital reductions, share exchanges, re-organisations)
- Employee Ownership (employee ownership trusts, employee share schemes)
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Shareholder Agreements
- Shareholder Disputes
- Partnership Agreements
- Business Start-Ups
- Business Contracts
- Director Services (director duties & responsibilities, terms & conditions)
Lawson West Solicitors serves clients across the UK from their offices in Leicester and Market Harborough, providing support in English. The firm is authorized and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and has received consistent client praise for their professionalism, responsiveness, and empathetic approach across diverse legal matters.
