The Legal Executive

The data

The working behind the analysis. Every figure here is derived from the public registers — see methodology.

Practice rights

All 30 practice rights →

Practice areas

Not from the register — from 2,438 employers' own profile pages, covering 2,157 people. What that covers, and what it misses.

All 18 practice areas →

Qualification years

Every year from 1977 to 2026 →

CILEX Authorised Entities

22 firms regulated by CILEx Regulation rather than the SRA. 23 of their 48 area authorisations are insured but fall outside the compensation arrangements. The table →

What kind of firm they work for

Joined on Companies House number against the 12,930-firm register assembled for the sibling solicitors project — an exact join, not a name match.

All 17 categories → 1,709 people at firms with a contract, of 4,735 at an identified law firm.

Accreditations

210 people claim a named scheme on their employer's profile page — under two per cent, and claimed rather than verified. 9 schemes →

Seniority and geography

6 position titles across 467 people, of whom 206 are a partner, director or head of department · 108 postcode areas · 29 counties · the Professional Paralegal Register · what changed since the last collection

Largest employers

All 3,097 employers →

Largest towns

All 436 towns →

Published disciplinary decisions

58 decisions published by CILEx Regulation, counted by sanction. The decisions name individuals and are published on the regulator's own site; this site counts them and does not reproduce the names. See personal data.