Bray & Bray is a regional law firm committed to providing a high quality legal services across a wide range of areas. We pride ourselves on making and sustaining trusted, long-term relationships with both our commercial and private clients, ensuring we understand their needs and help them realise their business and personal objectives.
Our values are at the core of Bray & Bray and everything we do and help us work towards achieving our vision to be the first-choice firm for quality legal advice and the employer of choice for talented individuals in Leicestershire and beyond.
Founded in 1893
200 people in their team
The corporate & commercial team at Bray & Bray is well respected throughout the East Midlands with a strong track record of providing commercially-focused advice and practical solutions to guide you through complex business transactions. Our corporate solicitors have a wealth of high-level experience in dealing with all types of corporate law and governance matters throughout the life-cycle of a business.
As your legal partner, we invest time in getting to know you and your business to deliver tailored advice and achieve the best outcome ensuring the minimum amount of risk and disruption.
Our corporate and commercial law experts are supported by a range of other legal specialists, allowing us to advise on all the legal matters a business may face, including commercial property, employment and commercial disputes.
As well as providing legal support on your business matters, our team has a well-established network of trusted contacts and can also put you in touch with other professionals who can assist with your situation, including accountants and surveyors.
Employment law is complex and fast-moving. It’s crucial to get the right, expert advice for the protection of your business and the people who work for you.
Our employment law team has extensive experience of all aspects of employment law. We can help businesses to minimise their risks and keep things running smoothly. We can also support individuals, advising on disputes and issues to ensure that they are dealt with fairly and appropriately.
Our team supports businesses of all types and sizes. We are happy to work with in-house HR teams within larger businesses or deal directly with senior team members in smaller companies.
Our friendly team works closely with you to understand your objectives and requirements. We offer proactive advice around managing your workforce, and support to deal efficiently with workplace disputes and employment tribunals, or to effectively restructure your business. Our team can be as hands-on as needed and provide a range of HR services and support to help you take a proactive approach to managing your people.
We can provide employment law advice for businesses on a range of areas, including:
Disputes of any kind can be very stressful, sometimes entrenched and complex. It is absolutely vital that you receive the right legal advice early on, for your own protection and to seek the best possible resolution.
Our skilled dispute resolution team will work with you to deliver an honest and straightforward assessment of your situation taking into account the factual and legal position. We will take time to understand your objectives and devise a way forward that seeks an appropriate resolution, whilst minimising risk and disruption.
Wherever possible, we will try to resolve your dispute outside of court, either through negotiation or mediation. However, where there is no realistic alternative to court action, our experienced team will work with you to maximise your chances of achieving a satisfactory result.
We encourage you to get in touch with us, no matter what kind of dispute you’re dealing with.
Buying or selling property is a complex process, but our experienced residential property team will help to ensure that everything goes smoothly. We have extensive knowledge of the Leicestershire and East Midlands market and are accredited under the Law Society Conveyancing Scheme.
Our team is experienced in handling deals of all sizes, including sales of high-end properties, and we have particular expertise in leasehold matters.
We also have an extensive network of professional contacts we can link you to for any help with financial planning.
Our approach to residential property conveyancing is personal and professional – we will assign one of our experienced conveyancers to give you dedicated guidance throughout the house buying or selling process. We will also make sure you can always speak to a member of our fully qualified team who is familiar with your case.
Our specialist team has expertise in:
Bray and Bray is an accredited member of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme which guarantees high levels of service. So you can rest assured that you are in safe hands with our residential property team.
Family law is an increasingly complex area of law. Bray & Bray’s skilled family lawyers have 128 years of combined experience in dealing with family disputes of all kinds, from contentious divorces to issues of childcare and civil partnership dissolution.
The nature of family disputes means that our family solicitors need to strike a balance between professionalism, legal knowledge and the handling of delicate situations. We offer a sympathetic ear and will work with you to understand your personal situation and its implications for your family, before advising you on the best way forward to resolve any issues.
Our varied experience in family law gives us an unrivalled level of empathy and understanding. As well as comprehensive legal advice and support, we can also offer advice on mediation and will recommend this as a possible way forward if we feel it’s appropriate.
Within our areas of specialism, our family law team offers high quality, friendly legal advice covering:
Our family lawyers offer an initial fixed-fee consultation for just £100. This one-hour consultation allows us to discuss your situation and provide you with options for your next steps. We can also advise whether you might be able to take advantage of one of our fixed fee services or what the legal costs are likely to be if your situation is more complex. We will confirm the advice given in writing following the initial consultation.
Planning for what will happen in the event of your death isn’t something that most people enjoy doing, but it can be very important in securing a comfortable future for your family and other loved ones.
There are a number of options to choose from when preparing wills and trusts and we can help you find out which is best for you. We can also help you plan for anything happening during your lifetime that means you need support, such as by putting in place lasting power of attorney agreements. These will help things go more smoothly if you are no longer able to run your own affairs.
Our team specialises in all kinds of wills and probate work. We have extensive experience of dealing with very complicated wills involving extended families, as well as more straightforward cases of estates with one beneficiary. Whatever your situation, we can help.
We take an individual, plain-speaking and straightforward approach that ensures our clients understand where they are at all times, in even the most complex of cases.
We always remember how distressing a bereavement can be, making this a stressful time when you are facing a lot of change and big decisions. Because we know the difficulties families face after a death, we always work hard for a swift resolution to any queries or disputes while treating everyone with empathy and understanding.
We offer a full range of wills, trusts and probate services. As well as helping people to deal with estates following a death, we offer a number of services to individuals during their life.
Our services include:
We can also help with:
Our specialist personal injury and clinical negligence solicitors have many years’ experience in dealing with serious injury claims and helping our clients get the compensation they deserve.
We understand the impact a serious injury can have on you and your loved ones, both in the short and long term, and our expert solicitors will work tirelessly to help you get the best possible care, rehabilitation and support as well as fair compensation for the harm done.
Our approach is simple – we give friendly and professional legal advice without the jargon and will try to ensure that you deal with the same expert from day one. Our personal injury solicitors are welcoming and approachable, but tough too – we’ll always go the extra mile and are committed to fighting your corner.
After an initial chat we’ll start the ball rolling and keep you up to date with progress on your claim. We always work towards swift resolutions, minimising any distress and ensuring you receive vital funds as soon as possible. We can also secure interim payments whilst your claim progresses to ease any financial worries.
The Bray & Bray personal injury and clinical negligence team are specialists in serious injury claims that have long term effects, but can help with a wide range of claims including:
