About Solicitors Guide
What Solicitors Guide covers, how the UK’s legal systems differ, what the site does not do and how it is paid for.
Most people look for a solicitor after something has happened: a marriage ends, a parent dies, a job is lost, an accident leaves you hurt or a letter arrives from the Home Office. That is a hard time to learn which firms do which kind of work. Solicitors Guide sorts solicitors across the UK into lists by subject and city, which shows who spends the week on a matter like yours.
What the lists cover
Family and divorce, immigration, wills and probate, employment and personal injury. Will disputes and medical negligence are listed city by city on separate pages. Within a city list, buttons pick out the firms that handle family legal aid, children and contact, asylum, sponsor licences, work visas, lasting powers of attorney, settlement agreements, advice for employers or road traffic accidents. The cities range from London, Manchester and Birmingham to Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast. A firm’s page sets out the work it takes, where its office is and when it opens.
One site, three legal systems
England and Wales share one legal system. Scotland has its own, and so does Northern Ireland. Immigration law is the same across the UK, but divorce, wills, succession and the courts that deal with them differ in each, and employment tribunals work differently in Northern Ireland. A different body regulates solicitors in each, so it matters where a firm practises. Each firm page shows where its offices are.
What we are not
No law firm runs this site and no legal regulator has authorised it. Its pages are general information, not legal advice, and using it does not make you our client or the client of any firm listed. We cannot say if you have a claim or what it might be worth, and we do not choose a firm for you. We take no referral fee, arrange nothing and book no appointments. To look a firm up on its regulator’s register, which we do not do for you, follow the steps on “How we select”.
Who pays for what
Readers pay nothing. Firms can claim their page for free to keep their areas of work, hours and description accurate. Some also buy Pro, a fuller page for the firm, or Top, an early place in a list that the firm reserves. Each is labelled wherever it shows. The site carries no adverts, and no firm pays us a share of its fees.