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Letter from solicitor

  • 03-07-2017 5:00pm
    #1
    heldel00
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    Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?


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  • #2
    Really Interested
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    heldel00 wrote: »
    Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?

    Yes.


  • #3
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?
    It is not a company either. It is a partnership. If it is on their headed paper it is deemed to be signed.


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    Fred Swanson
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  • #5
    Really Interested
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    It is not a company either. It is a partnership. If it is on their headed paper it is deemed to be signed.

    Many solicitors firms are & Company while not limited they can be called & Company which may not always be a partnership as it can have only one principle solicitor with employed solicitors.


  • #6
    4ensic15
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    Really Interested wrote: »
    Many solicitors firms are & Company while not limited they can be called & Company which may not always be a partnership as it can have only one principle solicitor with employed solicitors.

    The used of the words company is a styling. It does not mean there is a company. A company is a distinct legal person from its members. There is not the case with a solicitor firm. Some sole practitioners avail of this styling but are or course neither a partnership or a company.


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  • #7
    Really Interested
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    The used of the words company is a styling. It does not mean there is a company. A company is a distinct legal person from its members. There is not the case with a solicitor firm. Some sole practitioners avail of this styling but are or course neither a partnership or a company.

    But it would explain why a lay person would use the description legal company when's letter is received from XY & Company.


  • #8
    Really Interested
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    The used of the words company is a styling. It does not mean there is a company. A company is a distinct legal person from its members. There is not the case with a solicitor firm. Some sole practitioners avail of this styling but are or course neither a partnership or a company.

    But it would explain why a lay person would use the description legal company when's letter is received from XY & Company.


  • #9
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭IsaacWunder


    Really Interested wrote: »
    But it would explain why a lay person would use the description legal company when's letter is received from XY & Company.

    The use of the conjunction totally changes the context. "X and company" is not a company.


  • #10
    Really Interested
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    IsaacWunder wrote: »
    The use of the conjunction totally changes the context. "X and company" is not a company.

    When did I say otherwise

    The OP said "Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?"

    Then

    "Quote: 4ensic15
    It is not a company either. It is a partnership. If it is on their headed paper it is deemed to be signed."

    I replied "Many solicitors firms are & Company while not limited they can be called & Company which may not always be a partnership as it can have only one principle solicitor with employed solicitors."


  • #11
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Really Interested wrote: »
    When did I say otherwise

    The OP said "Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?"

    Then

    "Quote: 4ensic15
    It is not a company either. It is a partnership. If it is on their headed paper it is deemed to be signed."

    I replied "Many solicitors firms are & Company while not limited they can be called & Company which may not always be a partnership as it can have only one principle solicitor with employed solicitors."

    Solicitors firms don't have principles.


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    Fred Swanson
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  • #13
    davo10
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Solicitors firms don't have principles.

    Do you mean Principals?


  • #14
    Miaireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭Miaireland


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Family member received a letter from a solicitor today. The letter is not signed by any individual solicitor, just the name of the legal company. Is this common practise?

    One of the local firms here always sign the company name. The only way you know what Solictor the letter is from is by the reference(it normall contains the Solictors initals and their secretary initials). These letter though are requestes for reports.


  • #15
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    davo10 wrote: »
    Do you mean Principals?

    No.


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