What Are The Various Types of Solicitors Available in the UK?

If you were to need a solicitor, you would need to choose one that specialises in your particular issue. For example, if you lived in Preston and were searching for a solicitor, you couldn’t just Google ‘solicitors Preston’ and find one that was appropriate.

 Instead, you would need to narrow it down by the reason that you need the solicitor in the first place. For instance, if you needed one because you’re moving house, you would type ‘property solicitors Preston’ and then you would find a list of appropriately trained solicitors in your area. However, there are many different types of solicitor in the UK. Here, we have produced a brief guide to help you to understand the type of solicitor that you need.

 Conveyancing

These solicitors deal with property sales. When you buy or sell a property, they will carry out all the legal requirements. They will:

  1. Make sure that the person who’s selling the property has the rights to do so.
  2. Make sure that there are no disputes over the land.
  3. Transfer the deeds so that the property is now in your name

 That’s just a quick brief of the type of tasks that they undertake. They can be very expensive, with some taking as much as 1% commission on the sale, so do make sure that you shop around for solicitors and choose one that offers a combination of value and comprehensiveness.

 Personal Injury

When you injure yourself and it’s not your fault, you may be able to claim money in compensation. This is money to cover medical expenses and loss of potential earnings caused by your injury. For example, if you’re hit by a car and get a brain injury, you might have to change jobs. You will have to pay out for any medical expenses, but you’d also lose your job and maybe be unable to work at all. Compensation would cover your loss of earnings. Clearly, we used an extreme example, other cases aren't as straightforward. Either way, you would need a solicitor to represent you in court.

 Legal Aid

Solicitors are expensive, but fortunately, there are legal aid solicitors. These solicitors represent people on low income. They can either specifically cater to low income people, or they can offer it as one of their existing services. You will find legal aid solicitors within all types of solicitor listed here.

 Employment

Employment solicitors deal with all problems related to your employment. For example, if you think that you’ve been unfairly dismissed, you would hire an employment solicitor to help you fight the dismissal, or to receive adequate compensation.

 Divorce

This is, gain, self-explanatory. These solicitors deal with all matters of divorce, from splitting up the assets to determining child access.

 Commercial

These solicitors are used by businesses to work out various commercial issues, such as writing out of contracts and finding working out planning permissions for new building.

 Wills and Probates

These solicitors help you to write out a will. They make sure that you're legally entitled to gift things, or they work out whether you rightly inherited something.

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