Solicitors in the UK

Solicitors in the UK: common questions

How many solicitors are listed in the UK?

None yet. Promote Your Business has no solicitors listed in the UK. Listing is free, so if you run one you can be the first.

Do solicitors in the UK have to be registered or licensed?

"Solicitor" is a protected title in the UK. Only someone regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority may use it, and firms must hold client money in a protected account.

How do I check a solicitor in the UK is qualified?

Look the firm and the individual up on the SRA’s own Solicitors Register at sra.org.uk, which is free, public and the definitive record of who the SRA regulates. Unregulated firms may still offer legal services, but you lose SRA protection and the compensation fund if something goes wrong.

Are the solicitors listed here vetted or reviewed?

Every submission is checked before it appears. If the business's own website names it and the details are complete, it is published automatically; anything else is read by a person, who checks that the business is real, that the details make sense, and that the category and location are right. Nothing is scraped from other sites. That is a check on the listing, not an endorsement of the work — Promote Your Business publishes no ratings, star scores or customer reviews, so you should still make your own checks before hiring.

Solicitors: guides worth reading first

• How to check a UK trader is registered, trade by trade

  There is no single UK trade licence. Some trades have a statutory register it is a criminal offence to work outside; most have none, and the useful checks are different.