Apply to the legal profession with the numbers in front of you
Who employs lawyers in England and Wales, where, in what, and what the registers show. Then the application tools, the practice material and the comparison of where to study — in one place, from £7.95 a month for the data and £16.95 for the practice material.
Every figure on this site names the register or statistic it came from and the date it was last checked. The open figures stay open: you do not need an account to read them.
The legal professions of England and Wales, counted
- 225,107
Solicitors on the roll
Solicitors Regulation Authority register ,
- 18,852
Barristers on the BSB register
Bar Standards Board register ,
- 11,603
People on the CILEx register
CILEx Regulation register ,
- 9,169
On the five smaller registers
IPReg, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, the Faculty Office, the Costs Lawyer Standards Board and the HMCTS certificated bailiff register ,
Every figure we publish, with its source — including what the registers do not show, which matters as much as what they do.
What you get
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Industry and sector data
Employers by town and practice area, legal aid contracts, pay as the official sources state it, and the routes people who reached the bench actually took.
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Where to study
What an LLB, a conversion course, the SQE and the Bar course each commit you to, what they cost, and a provider index built from published data with the method written down.
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CV and applications
What a legal CV has to do, templates that survive an applicant tracking system, and a checker that reads your draft and tells you which lines are costing you.
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Interviews and assessment centres
Every stage of a legal recruitment process and what it is actually testing, from the screening call to the partner interview and the pupillage gateway panel.
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Test practice
Original practice questions in the published formats — critical thinking, verbal, numerical, situational judgement — with explanations, timing and your own weak spots.
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Planning the cycle
Every published deadline in one calendar, a tracker for the applications you have open, and reminders before the dates that matter.
Free to read, £7.95 a month for the employer data, £16.95 to practise
The data is open. Data at £7.95 a month adds the sortable, sourced employer data and the application tools that use it; the practice material and the provider comparisons start on Applying at £16.95. A year costs ten months' price, you can cancel in two clicks from your account page, and we will email you before any renewal.
Who we are
Assize Careers is a trading name of Assize Data Ltd, which builds data products about the UK legal sector from primary sources. We are not a recruiter: no employer pays us to be listed, no employer pays us for your details, and we do not run a jobs board.
Assize Careers is not a regulator, professional body, university, law school or official careers service, and it is not part of or endorsed by one. Nothing on this site is legal advice.