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Every legal profession in England and Wales

19 of them. 7 have a regulator this site reads a register from; the rest are canonical on a sister publication, or unregulated, or have no register at all.

Regulated, with a register

• Notaries public

  Faculty Office. 817 collected. 4 reserved activities.
  How to qualify

• Costs lawyers

  CLSB. 789 collected. 3 reserved activities.
  How to qualify

• Licensed conveyancers

  CLC. 2,410 collected. 3 reserved activities.
  How to qualify

• Patent and trade mark attorneys

  IPReg. 3,924 collected. 4 reserved activities.
  How to qualify

• Certificated enforcement agents

  HMCTS. 1,211 collected.
  How to qualify

• Claims management companies

  FCA. Register not collected.

• Regulated immigration advisers

  IAA. Register not collected.

Covered, without a register here

• Solicitors

  SRA. The Solicitors' Record is the masthead for this profession; see strategy/03-audience-sites.md section 3.

• Barristers

  BSB. The Bar Record is the masthead for this profession; the register snapshot is in bar/.

• Chartered legal executives and CILEX paralegals

  CRL. The Legal Executive is the masthead for this profession; the register snapshot is in cilex-register/.

• Chartered accountants authorised for probate

  ICAEW. ICAEW is an approved regulator for probate activities only. Its register is a firm list, not a practitioner register.

• Insolvency practitioners

  RPBs. No single register: authorisation is by ICAEW, ACCA, CAI, IPA or the Law Society of Scotland, each publishing its own list. An insolvency practitioner is not a legal professional as such, and the reserved activities are none.

• Civil and family mediators

  CMC / FMC. Mediation is not a reserved activity and neither council is an approved regulator. Membership directories, not registers.

• Paralegals outside CILEX

  Unregulated. Unregulated. The CILEX Professional Paralegal Register is The Legal Executive's; there is no register of the rest.

• Will writers

  Unregulated. Unregulated: will writing is not a reserved activity, which is the single most consequential fact on this site.

• McKenzie friends

  Unregulated. Unregulated, and paid McKenzie friends are the sharpest consumer-protection gap in the sector. No register exists.

• Expert witnesses

  Unregulated. Unregulated as such; duties come from CPR Part 35, which is in this repository's corpus.

• Legal secretaries

  Unregulated. Included so the comparison is complete, not as a pillar.

• Legal academics

  Unregulated. Included so the comparison is complete, not as a pillar.