SRA-regulated solicitors in England and Wales: 8,865 authorised firms by town

How SRA regulation works

The Solicitors Regulation Authority authorises firms in England and Wales in three forms. A recognised body is a firm owned and managed by lawyers (6,204 here). A licensed body, often called an alternative business structure, may have non-lawyer owners or managers (1,351). A recognised sole practice is one solicitor practising on their own account (1,310). All three carry the same SRA number system, the same Standards and Regulations, compulsory professional indemnity insurance and access to the Legal Ombudsman and the SRA Compensation Fund. Every firm here had authorisation status YES on the snapshot date; firms that have ceased, been revoked or intervened in are excluded, as are the roughly 14,000 unregulated organisations that employ solicitors but are not themselves SRA-authorised.

2,405 firms run more than one practising office, and 5,466 carry a company registration number that matched a Companies House record, which the firm pages show as dated facts alongside the SRA entry.

What "areas of law reported to the SRA" means

Once a year each firm tells the SRA which of 26 areas of law it delivered. The SRA publishes those answers on its register with the caption that they are "the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered, in an annual report". This site uses exactly that meaning: a reported area is a statement about past work, self-declared, up to a year old. It is not a specialism, an accreditation or a promise that the firm will take your matter. 563 firms have no areas recorded, almost always because they were authorised after the last return.

The Transparency Rules: prices must be published

Since December 2018, and in their current form from 11 April 2025, the SRA Transparency Rules require any authorised firm that advertises residential conveyancing (freehold or leasehold sale or purchase, mortgage or remortgage) to publish on its website the total price or a range, the basis of its charges, who does the work and their experience, likely disbursements, VAT treatment, and the stages and timescales. The same duty covers uncontested probate, immigration applications, motoring offences at the magistrates' court and unfair-dismissal claims. Firms without a website must provide the information on request. That is why every conveyancing firm listed on this site links out to its own website: the price is the firm's published figure, not ours. See our guide to the rules and the national conveyancing fee benchmarks to judge what you find.

Firms by region

Region is the ONS region of the head office postcode. Offices count practising offices (head office and branches) in England and Wales; registered-office-only addresses are excluded.