Oldham Recommends five law firms

Pearson Solicitors and Financial Advisers LLP

31 Queen Street, Oldham

Pearson’s stated mission is to provide “the highest quality legal services to our clients” – both private individuals and businesses.

Services include: family law and childcare, wills, trusts, tax and probate, conveyancing, medical and clinical negligence, personal injury, employment law, inheritance and will disputes, insurance disputes, disputes and civil litigation, motoring offences, consumer disputes, housing law, reclaim care home fees, free legal advice clinic.

Garratts Solicitors Oldham

King Street Buildings, 39 Manchester St, Oldham

Garratts was established in 1982 and has grown into a practice with 8 partners and 65 staff across 6 offices in Oldham, Ashton, Worsley, Radcliffe, Stalybridge and Newton Heath, Manchester.

Its website says: “We understand that when you need a solicitor you may feel anxious, stressed or upset.

“Our expert and experienced solicitors will put you at ease and give you explanations and advice in plain English, so that you understand everything about your legal matter. We have invested heavily in IT to improve our productivity and help achieve results quickly.”

Alison Law Solicitors Oldham

98A Featherstall Road North, Oldham

Alison Law Solicitors LLP is an independent law firm, who’s stated aim is to provide its clients with the highest standards of legal expertise together with exceptional customer service. Its areas of expertise are: Action against public bodies, civil litigation, commercial litigation, family law, immigration and asylum, intellectual property, legal aid, landlord and tenants issues, leases, personal injury, taxation and overseas disputes.

Wrigley Claydon Solicitors

29/33 Union Street, Oldham

Founded in 1795 by Henry Barlow, Wrigley Claydon claims to be Oldham’s oldest running business.

The company has had a continuous presence as a solicitor in Oldham since then. It was 60 years later when our now namesake Henry Wrigley joined the firm. Today, his great great great granddaughter is still a client.

It celebrated its 200 year anniversary in 1995 having expanded our offices into the Todmorden area in 1980.

“This gives us flexibility to serve all our clients’ legal needs at both offices, at their home or place of business,” it says. The office is headed up by Senior Partner Vijay Srivastava and our Todmorden team by Partner Emma Piszkalo.

North Ainley Solicitors

34/36 Clegg St, Oldham

North Ainley Solicitors can trace its heritage in Oldham back for more than 100 years.

Its website says: “It is fair to say that we have been there to guide and advise in many of the most influential commercial and domestic occurrences in the town during this time.”

The family tree of North Ainley Solicitors shows roots to one of the oldest legal practices in Oldham. It starts with The Wellock practice which dates back to the early part of the nineteen hundreds when Tom Wellock Senior, a local character and hard taskmaster, formed the firm and added it to his other business interests in the Town. He had two sons, Jack and Tom, who succeeded him and went on to run the highly successful general practice of T Wellock & Sons.