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Legal Services Companies in Liverpool: 228 Active Firms (2026)
Legal services companies advise clients, manage disputes and transactions, and deliver professional support across Liverpool’s metropolitan economy.
Buying activity tends to sit across owner-managed and mid-market businesses needing contract, employment and property advice; individuals involved in disputes, family or conveyancing matters; and public-sector or quasi-public bodies buying specialist support for regulated work. The commercial end is usually relationship-led, with repeat instructions and panel-style buying more common than ad hoc commodity purchasing. Smaller partner-led offices can still win local mandates where sector familiarity matters, while larger regional employers tend to handle higher-value disputes, transactions and multi-practice advisory work across Merseyside, the wider North West and the UK.
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Liverpool has 228 actively trading legal-services companies, a cohort that includes partner-led local practices and a smaller set of regional employers with higher reported turnover. Reported headcount totals 1,355 people, pointing to an employment base beyond the sole-practitioner end of the profession. The local market still appears weighted toward small offices, with larger practices better placed for multi-practice disputes, property transactions and recurring business advisory work across Merseyside and the wider North West.
Reserved legal work gives the sector a different shape from unregulated advisory services: client onboarding, conflict checks, confidentiality duties, client-money controls and professional indemnity cover all affect capacity, pricing and who can supervise matters. Liverpool practices also sit close to property, employment and public-sector purchasing cycles, so demand can move with local transactions, disputes and contract renewal work. Market structure is therefore not just a question of fee-earner supply; compliance overhead and reputation in defined practice areas tend to determine which offices can take on more complex mandates.
Newer practices appear able to enter around narrow advisory niches and local client relationships, but the cost of supervision, insurance and compliance tends to favour established offices once work becomes more complex. Larger regional employers may keep absorbing specialist teams where succession or referral access is attractive. At the same time, client pressure on fees and document-heavy processes should keep pushing firms toward more standardised workflows, especially in routine property, employment and contract support.
228
Active firms
2026
8
Revenue over £5M
Companies in scope
42
Since 2022
New incorporations
Key facts
About 3% of the trading cohort reports turnover above £5M (8 of 228 firms) — the rest sits below that revenue band.
18% of the cohort was incorporated since 2022 (42 firms), so a sizeable share is in its first few filing cycles.
Liverpool legal services activity sits close to property work, commercial contracts, employment issues and household transactions.
The category includes advisory work, dispute management, transactional support and other professional services rather than a single practice model.
Incorporated practices, specialist legal support businesses and service vehicles can all appear in the same local market screen.
Top Liverpool Legal Services companies
MSB SOLICITORS LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal advice and representation for individuals and businesses. Offers services including dispute resolution, housing and property matters, family law, criminal defence, and commercial legal…
Serves private individuals, including high-net-worth clients and people facing personal legal issues, as well as businesses seeking solicitor services, with offices covering Liverpool, Cheshire,…
Financial Health
StrongStrong
Location
CANTER LEVIN & BERG LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services for individuals and businesses, including family and divorce law, employment disputes, housing disrepair claims, personal injury cases, wills and probate, commercial…
Serves individuals and businesses in Liverpool and North West England, including families, employees, employers, tenants with housing disrepair claims, personal injury claimants, estates clients and…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · -1% CAGR over 4y
Location
ASTRAEA LINSKILLS LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services including family law, criminal defence, welfare benefits advice, media and election law, commercial property matters, motoring offences, and wills, probate and estate planning…
Serves individuals and businesses seeking legal support across Merseyside, the North West, North Wales, wider UK and internationally, including private clients, legal aid clients, and commercial…
Financial Health
StableStable · 0% CAGR over 4y
Location
BERMANS LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides commercial legal services including asset and invoice finance, creditor services and debt recovery, employment law, property and construction, insolvency and restructuring, corporate and…
Serves businesses and finance providers needing commercial legal advice, including asset and invoice finance firms, creditors, employers, property and construction companies, corporate clients,…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -91% CAGR over 2y
Location
JACKSON LEES GROUP LTD
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services to individuals and businesses, including advice and representation in family law, employment disputes, personal injury and medical negligence claims, wills and probate,…
Serves individuals, families and businesses across the North West seeking legal advice, including private clients, employers, commercial property owners, litigants and people involved in injury,…
Financial Health
StableStable · -90% CAGR over 2y
Location
Mann Roberts Solicitors Limited
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsProvides legal services to businesses, owners and entrepreneurs, focusing on commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Advises on construction disputes, shareholder and partnership conflicts,…
Serves businesses, business owners and entrepreneurs needing commercial dispute resolution, including clients in agriculture, construction, sport, charities, insurance, media, professional practices…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 21% CAGR over 3y
Location
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsProvides legal services for businesses and individuals, including commercial law and litigation, commercial leases, property disputes, residential conveyancing, employment law, wills and probate,…
Serves businesses, landlords and tenants, employers, property buyers and sellers, and private individuals or families nationally needing commercial, property, litigation, employment, wills, probate…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · -69% CAGR over 3y
Location
BURYS SOLICITORS LIMITED
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsProvides legal services including will writing, probate and estate administration, powers of attorney, family law and divorce advice, child custody matters, conveyancing, personal injury claims,…
Serves private individuals, families, tenants, landlords and home movers seeking legal support for life events, property matters and disputes, mainly through Liverpool-based or virtual consultations.
Financial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 6% CAGR over 3y
Location
SMITH JONES (SOLICITORS) LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal advice and representation for consumer claims, civil disputes and business matters. Handles issues such as fraud and scam claims, mis‑sold finance, property and tenancy disputes,…
Serves a mix of consumers, private individuals, landlords and businesses needing legal support for claims, disputes, property matters, fraud/scam losses, contracts, GDPR and commercial litigation.
Financial Health
StableStable · -31% CAGR over 4y
Location
Melville Barrow Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides criminal defence legal services, representing clients in cases involving serious fraud, complex crime, motoring offences, extradition, and Proceeds of Crime Act matters, and offering police…
Serves individuals and corporate clients facing criminal allegations, including motorists, police station detainees, and defendants in fraud, complex crime, proceeds of crime and extradition matters,…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Growing · 3% CAGR over 2y
Location
THREE GRACES LEGAL LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services to businesses and individuals including commercial debt recovery, litigation and dispute resolution, contract and shareholder disputes, employment law advice, and data…
Serves businesses of all sizes, including SMEs and start-ups across sectors such as construction, IT, energy, financial services, manufacturing, property, retail and logistics, plus individuals…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · Hiring · 12% CAGR over 2y
Location
Catherine Higgins Law Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services including residential conveyancing for property sales, purchases and remortgages, and private client work such as wills, probate, lasting powers of attorney and trusts, as…
Serves individual clients in Woolton and South Liverpool, including home buyers, sellers and remortgagers, families planning wills or probate, elderly clients, and people pursuing personal injury…
Financial Health
StableStable · -4% CAGR over 4y
Location
Bartletts Solicitors Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services including personal injury and medical negligence claims, housing disrepair cases, wills and probate, residential conveyancing, commercial landlord and tenant matters, and…
Serves consumers and some businesses needing legal advice, especially families, homeowners, tenants, landlords, first-time buyers, bereaved individuals and personal injury claimants, plus business…
Financial Health
StableStable · -8% CAGR over 2y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides specialist family law barristers offering legal advice and court representation. Handles cases involving child custody and care proceedings, financial remedies after relationship breakdown,…
Serves solicitors, local authorities and direct access individuals needing family law barristers, including parents, grandparents and family members in children, domestic abuse, financial remedy and…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Hiring · 26% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides intellectual property legal services including patent and trade mark prosecution, design and copyright protection, IP litigation, commercialisation advice, and IP strategy. Advises clients…
Serves UK, European and overseas businesses, innovators and IP counsel across electronics, telecoms, life sciences, software, medical technology, engineering, chemistry, materials, creative and…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 5% CAGR over 4y
Location
CAPA LAW LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 37% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services focused on dispute resolution, including corporate recovery and insolvency matters, tax dispute and tax litigation advice, commercial litigation, and representation in revenue…
Serves businesses and individuals involved in corporate or personal disputes, tax disputes, insolvency matters and commercial litigation, including clients facing revenue or local authority…
Financial Health
HealthyHealthy · Hiring · 5% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides intellectual property legal services including patent, trade mark and design prosecution, IP litigation, copyright advice, and commercialisation support. Advises businesses and inventors on…
Serves businesses, innovators and overseas IP counsel needing European intellectual property support, especially in technology, life sciences, engineering, chemistry, software, medical technologies,…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -4% CAGR over 4y
Location
PAUL CROWLEY & CO SOLICITORS LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services including personal injury claims, residential conveyancing, family law matters, and criminal defence. Also handles private client work such as wills, probate, estate planning,…
Serves consumers and private individuals seeking legal support, including home movers, injured claimants, families, people facing criminal or motoring allegations, and clients needing wills, probate,…
Financial Health
StableStable · -69% CAGR over 4y
Location
BERKSON FAMILY LAW SOLICITORS LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services in family law, including divorce and financial settlements, child arrangements, public law children proceedings, adoption, grandparent rights, and domestic abuse matters, and…
Serves private individuals and families in Liverpool needing family law support, including separating couples, parents, grandparents, domestic abuse victims, and people involved with social services…
Financial Health
StableStable · Hiring · 3% CAGR over 4y
Location
Trajectory
1y · 2025–NowProvides residential conveyancing legal services, advising on and managing property sale and purchase transactions. Offers direct communication with qualified lawyers and an online client portal for…
Serves individual homebuyers, sellers and other residential property clients, with referrals from estate agents and mortgage brokers.
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
IAN J BATES LIMITED
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 4 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong
Location
DANIEL BRADLEY CONSULTANT LTD
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong · Growing · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
HOGAN BROWN LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
LIVERPOOL LEGAL SERVICES LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -71% CAGR over 4y
Location
HARVEMEISTER LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
WeakWeak · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
Mark Reynolds Solicitors Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services including personal injury and serious injury claims, medical negligence cases, road traffic accident claims, family law matters, actions against the police, and wills,…
Serves individuals and families seeking legal help with personal injury, medical negligence, family law, wills and probate, including accident victims, patients, divorcing couples, relatives, and…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -4% CAGR over 2y
Location
Robert James Law Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services focused on litigation, representing clients in personal injury and serious injury claims, road traffic accidents, workplace accidents, fatal accident cases, medical and…
Sells to consumers seeking legal representation for compensation claims, including injured individuals, road traffic accident victims, employees hurt at work, families in fatal accident cases, and…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Growing, Hiring · 51% CAGR over 4y
Location
EMERALD LAW SOLICITORS LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services including housing disrepair claims, wills and probate, residential conveyancing, family and immigration law, personal injury, historical abuse cases, bank fraud and scam…
Serves private individuals and households needing legal support, including tenants, homebuyers and sellers, families, migrants, fraud victims, personal injury claimants, abuse survivors, and people…
Financial Health
StrongStrong · Growing, Hiring · 7% CAGR over 4y
Location
POTTER DERBY LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides criminal defence legal services, advising and representing individuals accused of criminal offences, particularly fraud and financial crime, including money laundering, VAT fraud, insurance…
Serves individuals across the UK facing criminal allegations, including fraud and financial crime cases, with both private representation and legal aid clients.
Financial Health
WeakWeak · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
ROGERS & RYAN BATHROOMS LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsProvides legal services focused on litigation and claims management, representing individuals and groups in disputes involving undisclosed commissions, housing disrepair, PCP car finance agreements,…
Serves individuals, group claimants and companies involved in financial loss or dispute matters, including housing disrepair tenants, PCP finance customers, borrowers, investors and former Quanta Law…
Financial Health
StrongStrong
Location
Cobleys Solicitors Ltd
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides criminal defence legal services, representing individuals and organisations in police station interviews, magistrates’ and crown court proceedings. Advises on offences including serious…
Serves individuals and organisations across the UK facing criminal allegations, police interviews, court proceedings, white-collar crime or fraud investigations by agencies such as the SFO, HMRC, NCA…
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · -7% CAGR over 2y
Location
Peter Killen Advocacy Services Limited
Trajectory
2y · 2022–NowFinancial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
POCA SOLICITORS LTD
Trajectory
4y · 2022–NowProvides criminal defence legal services, advising and representing clients facing criminal charges. Handles cases including fraud, murder, drug offences, sexual offences, cybercrime and confiscation…
Serves individuals in the UK facing criminal investigations or charges, including police interviews, court proceedings, trials or appeals for serious offences such as fraud, violence, drugs, sexual…
Financial Health
Insufficient historyInsufficient history
Location
DRISCOLL KINGSTON & CO LIMITED
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services as a firm of solicitors, advising and representing clients in civil litigation matters including personal injury claims, housing disrepair disputes, tenancy deposit issues,…
Serves private individuals across the UK, including personal injury claimants, tenants with housing disrepair or deposit disputes, clients pursuing professional negligence matters, and people needing…
Financial Health
WeakWeak · -91% CAGR over 2y
Location
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal services focused on personal injury and civil claims, representing individuals in cases including serious and catastrophic injury, medical negligence, data protection breaches, housing…
Serves individuals and families across the UK seeking compensation after serious injury, medical negligence, care home neglect, data breaches, police misconduct, housing disrepair, workplace or road…
Financial Health
StableStable · -6% CAGR over 2y
Location
Evolution Costs Limited
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsProvides legal costs services to law firms, including drafting bills of costs, costs budgeting, and representation in costs litigation and assessments for civil and commercial matters such as…
Serves law firms, solicitors and litigation teams handling civil and commercial matters, including injury, housing, clinical negligence, industrial disease, Court of Protection, privacy, group…
Financial Health
DistressedDistressed · -6% CAGR over 2y
Location
CANTERS CRIME LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
GIBBONS LAW LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong
Location
GLENVILLE WALKER & PARTNERS LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -66% CAGR over 4y
Location
HADCALRY LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · -60% CAGR over 4y
Location
Anderton & Co Solicitors Ltd
Trajectory
5y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong
Location
Trajectory
5y · 2020–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong
Location
HUNTER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIMITED
Trajectory
5y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StableStable · -68% CAGR over 4y
Location
SYMON HALL LAW LTD
Trajectory
5y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
StrongStrong · Growing, Hiring · 32% CAGR over 4y
Location
Portis Ltd
Trajectory
3y · 2022–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · 0% CAGR over 2y
Location
E&L LEGAL LTD
Trajectory
3y · 2023–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 3 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed · -90% CAGR over 2y
Location
KEATING LEGAL SERVICES LTD
Trajectory
2y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
HealthyHealthy · 0% CAGR over 1y
Location
STALLARD SOLICITORS LIMITED
Trajectory
2y · 2024–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 2 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
Legal Services Today Limited
Trajectory
5y · 2021–NowFinancial sub-scores
Computed from 5 filingsFinancial Health
DistressedDistressed
Location
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How Liverpool Legal Services companies work and how to sell to them
What they do
Liverpool legal-services firms earn revenue mainly from matter-based fee income rather than recurring product subscriptions. Pricing typically mixes hourly billing for advisory and contentious work, fixed fees for repeatable conveyancing or employment tasks, capped project fees for defined transactions, and retainers where business clients need ongoing access. Some claimant-side practices use conditional-fee structures, while public-sector and regulated work is usually scoped through formal terms. The service shape is still people-led: partner judgement, fee-earner capacity, document production, negotiation, advocacy and risk management are what clients are buying.
Who they sell to
Most commercial instructions come from owner-managed businesses, property investors, mid-market employers, charities and public bodies, with individuals still important in family, conveyancing and dispute work. Decision-makers vary by matter: managing directors and finance directors tend to buy general commercial advice, HR directors buy employment support, property directors buy transaction help, and procurement or legal teams control larger panels. Matter values vary widely; routine work sits at the smaller-ticket end, while disputes, transactions and advisory retainers justify more formal scopes. Referrals and direct relationships matter, but tenders and panel reviews shape larger opportunities.
What they buy
Most legal-services firms tend to spend on systems and services that reduce fee-earner administration, tighten compliance and improve client conversion. Relevant categories include practice-management software, time recording, billing, document automation, secure client portals, ID verification, anti-money-laundering checks, e-signature, CRM, telephony, finance systems and cyber security. Larger regional practices may also buy HR, recruitment, learning, knowledge-management and business-intelligence support, especially where multiple teams need consistent supervision. Services spend often includes accountancy, tax, professional indemnity broking, outsourced marketing, search marketing, office services and specialist consultancy around risk, pricing or operational change.
Why and how to sell to them
Legal-services buyers tend to evaluate vendors when fee-earner growth exposes process gaps, when a new practice area needs workflows, or when leadership wants better visibility over matters, cash collection and capacity. Other triggers include panel bids, insurance renewal pressure, office moves, succession planning, compliance reviews and client complaints about speed or communication. Outbound works better when it links to named operational constraints rather than general efficiency claims: fewer write-offs, faster onboarding, clearer audit trails, better supervision, lower administrative load and improved matter profitability. Proof points should address confidentiality, reserved work, client-money controls and change management for busy fee-earners.
How this list is built
Data sources
This list is built from UK Companies House filings, XBRL accounts data, and semantic analysis of each company's public website. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.
Classification
Rather than relying solely on SIC codes, Firmbase classifies each company semantically: the company's website is crawled, an AI model reads what the company actually sells, and the company is placed into the relevant industry and subsectors. SIC codes are used as one signal but not the only one. This means a company that registered under a generic SIC code but pivoted into (for example) fintech is correctly identified as fintech, not as its original SIC category.
Freshness
The underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear in the list within days of submission. The curated list ordering is regenerated when the underlying data moves meaningfully (company count changes by more than 5%, a new company enters the top-ranked segment, or the filed-revenue numbers for the top firms change). You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.
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