Loretta Woollams

Associate, Crime

Loretta Woollams

Department

My awards and achievements

Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024 Crime Firm of the year

Loretta is an Associate in the Crime department and specialises in all aspects of Criminal Defence. Loretta joined Forbes Solicitors in September 2019, having completed her training contract at JMW Solicitors.

Loretta frequently represents clients at the Magistrates’ Court and runs her own Crown Court caseload dealing with all aspects of Criminal cases. Loretta has experience dealing with a number of offences including but not limited to: serious violence, drugs, fraud and those of a sexual nature.

Loretta is a fully qualified Court Duty Solicitor having completed her Magistrates Court Qualification and is now a member of the Law Society’s Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme.

Loretta is also an Accredited Police Station Representative who represents and advises who have been arrested and detained at the Police Station.

Forbes were brilliant at handling my case and my solicitor Loretta was a great help. Will certainly be using this firm again and really couldn’t have wished for a better outcome

Allicja

Loretta was fantastic, professional and empathic of my situation, total credit to Forbes,, I’m extremely thankful for her service, highly recommend her and the company thank you so much!

Ryan

Both Simon and Loretta helped me with my driving offence, I was expecting the worst case scenario and the outcome was probably one of the best I could have got. Loretta and Simon were very professional, helped me feel at ease throughout and did all the legwork for me and fought on my behalf to get me a great outcome.

I can’t thank them both enough and would highly recommend them to anyone who needs legal advice or help. I'm very happy I chose Forbes.

Scott