Solicitor gone incommunicado

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nt00deep

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I am under contract on a house purchase and am due to close 1 week from tomorrow.

My solicitor's office appears to have gone incommunicado. No-body is answering the phone. I must have rang the office 40 times over the past year and never had a problem contacting them. There are usually more than 4/5 in the office, so they can't all be gone for tea.

How can I establish whether they are still in business ?
 
If you know of another solicitors office nearby, ring and ask them. They will probably know if theres been a death etc. Although I am surprised there is nt an answering machine at least.
 

call to the door ?
 
Restaurant across the road saw the principal coming from the building yesterday. There is no answering machine. No-one answering the phone.

Is this week a traditional week for legal admin staff to take their summer hols. I know my solr is just back from his own hols.
 
I know an accountants office that take their holidays around the time of the builders in the summer (more convenient for them than staggering holidays) so maybe this solicitors office is the same? Sounds like the simplest explanation.
 
Yes, all of August is the time for us in the legal profession to take our hols as the courts don't sit again until September ( barring emergency sessions). However its strange theres no answer and that they didnt give you a warning.
 
Managed to get an email address for the solr from the law society website.

sent an email and got a response that the office is closed for holidays.

Wouldn't you think that a telephone greeting to that effect would have been a nice service.
 
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