Good Lawyer

[Seringa]

Hi, we are planning to open a company in Phuket. Could you please recommend a good lawyer. Someone who can be trusted and will not charge stupid prices.

Thank you.

[macahoom]

I could be very wrong about this, but I believe that an accountant is better qualified than a lawyer to set up a company in Thailand. Maybe someone will correct me if I'm wrong about this.

If you do plump for a lawyer, I strongly recommend you not to use the services of one of the “international” lawyer companies. With them, effectively, you pay a small fortune for a translation service. I admit it's nice to be able to explain what you want to someone who speaks your own language but, they actually don't do the work themselves (they're not allowed to practise as lawyers in Thailand) and instead, delegate to their in house Thai lawyers who, I can only guess, are wet behind the ears, newly qualified graduates – a recipe for disaster.

All the work these outrageously expensive companies did for me ranged from sub standard to laughingly incompetent - and then I wised up and started using Thai lawyers (who work for themselves.)

If you PM me, I can recommend an accountant who has proved her worth to me (and several people I've recommended her to) over the past six years.

[Seringa]

Thank you for your advise,

I will PM you now.

[woodyleonhard]

Email me (woody at khun woody dot com) and I'll send you the names of two very good lawyers in Phuket.

But, as noted, you probably just want a good accountant.