Can the firm take this client on?
A law firm cannot act for both sides. So before taking on a new client, someone has to check that the new company doesn't clash with a client the firm already has.
This does that check — and finds what searching for a name cannot.
Here is the problem it solves
- A company writes in wanting to hire the firm. Nobody there has heard of them.
- Someone searches the firm's records for that company's name. Nothing comes back.
- But that company is 60% owned by another company — and the firm is already acting against that owner on a live case.
- Taking the job would be a serious problem. Nothing on the enquiry shows it.
This checks who owns whom, and who sits on which board, and shows the trail it followed. Then it says what it wasn't sure about, and stops. It does not decide anything: a solicitor at the firm reads it and decides.
Try it yourself
Type any company name. It is checked against the firm's records below — which you can read first, so you know what it is searching.
Or start from one of these:
What the firm has on file — the records being searched
Or read four enquiries it has already handled
How well does the name-matching work?
The hard part is deciding when two written names are the same company. Ashford Textiles Limited and Ashford Textiles Ltd are one company. Zenith Apparel and Zenith Apparels International are two. We measured how often it gets that right.
Plain text version of this page — the version a machine reads, carrying the same claim, the same numbers and the same date.