What can I honestly say about myself in my profile?
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Associate solicitor, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
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For a directory profile
59 wordsBethan Roberts is an associate solicitor at Roberts and Hughes. She holds the Law Society Family Law Accreditation and specialises in family and child arrangements. She is based in Wrexham, in Wales. Her clients are usually individuals and families. She advises in Welsh and English. She offers a free first conversation. Bethan can be contacted through Roberts and Hughes.
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123 wordsBethan Roberts is an associate solicitor at Roberts and Hughes. She holds the Law Society Family Law Accreditation and specialises in family and child arrangements. She also advises on wills, trusts and probate. She is based in Wrexham, in Wales. She is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. She qualified in 2021 and has over four years in practice. Her clients are usually individuals and families. She advises in Welsh and English. One recent matter: represented a parent through a two-day fact-finding hearing in the Family Court. Background: trained at a high street practice in north Wales. Away from the desk: sits as a trustee of a local advice charity. She offers a free first conversation. Bethan can be contacted through Roberts and Hughes.
For LinkedIn
114 wordsI am an associate solicitor at Roberts and Hughes. I hold the Law Society Family Law Accreditation and specialise in family and child arrangements. I also advise on wills, trusts and probate. I am based in Wrexham, in Wales. I am regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. I qualified in 2021 and have over four years in practice. My clients are usually individuals and families. I advise in Welsh and English. One recent matter: represented a parent through a two-day fact-finding hearing in the Family Court. Background: trained at a high street practice in north Wales. Away from the desk: sits as a trustee of a local advice charity. I offer a free first conversation.
What this bio does not say, and why
- Nothing here was checked. Your registration number, your accreditations and your qualification year are printed exactly as you typed them, and we verified none of them.
- The length of your practice is arithmetic, not a phrase we chose. You qualified in 2021, so the bio says over four years and never more.
- No fee, rate or price wording appears here. That belongs on your price page, and the checker for it is linked below.
- We did not write "specialises in wills, trusts and probate", because no accreditation on your list has a published scope covering it.
- We wrote "a free first conversation" as our plain label. Before publishing, say what is included and any commitment needed to receive it.
Before you publish
- Check your registration number against your own certificate. We printed what you typed and verified nothing.
- Check every accreditation is in date. An expired accreditation in a live bio is the claim this tool tried hardest to keep you out of.
- Read the final copy as a public claim about you. If any line goes beyond evidence you hold, edit it before publication.
- If your bio mentions a free first conversation, make clear what it involves. The CAP Code asks for the extent of the commitment, and one clause does it.
- Your regulator's own rules on how you describe yourself and your regulation are the ones that count. This page is a drafting aid, not a determination.
We are not your compliance officer, and this is a drafting aid rather than a determination. Your regulator's own rules on how you describe yourself are the ones that count.
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How this solicitor bio generator decides what you can say
Four things decide what goes into your bio, and taste is not one of them.
Your nation picks the regulator.
England and Wales means the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Scotland means the Law Society of Scotland. Northern Ireland means the Law Society of Northern Ireland. That one choice writes the identification line, and getting it wrong is a false statement about who regulates you.
Your job title locks words out.
If you are a chartered legal executive, a licensed conveyancer, a costs lawyer, a paralegal or a practice manager, the words "solicitor", "admitted" and "lawyer" cannot appear anywhere in the text we build. Three statutes sit behind that, one per nation, and CILEx's own code puts it in a single line: do not hold yourself out as having a qualification or professional status that you do not possess.
Your accreditations decide the specialism wording, or four of the nineteen do.
Tick the Law Society Family Law Accreditation and we will write "holds the Law Society Family Law Accreditation and specialises in family and child arrangements", because that scheme's own page says it covers all types of family law work. Tick nothing and the same sentence becomes "works mainly in family and child arrangements". Tick one of the other fifteen and we name the scheme in your bio but still write "works mainly in". We read what each scheme says it covers, and only four of them cover the whole of a practice area on our list. We say which one and why in the panel. The Law Society of Scotland's rule on advertising says a specialism claim is fine, and then adds the part everybody skips: the onus of proof is on the person making it. Naming the scheme in the sentence is how the sentence carries its own proof, and not naming it is how we avoid making a claim on your behalf that you would have to defend.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
The writing model receives at most thirteen enumerated keys: your nation, a status class, a pronoun when relevant, which practice-area codes you picked, which of them an accreditation covers, your tone. It never receives your name, your firm, your number, your year or a sentence you wrote. Every fact is put into the draft by your own browser after the model has finished, and a validator rejects any model draft containing a digit before it can reach your bio.
We check nothing. Your registration number, your accreditations and your qualification year are printed exactly as you typed them. We do not query the SRA's register, or anybody else's, and no tick, seal or badge appears anywhere on this page or in anything it produces.
Questions solicitors ask about their own profiles
Can I call myself a specialist?
Yes, if you can prove it. The Law Society of Scotland's rule B3 says nobody breaches the advertising rule by claiming to be a specialist, "provided that the onus of proof that any such claim is justified shall be on the person making it". The CAP Code makes the same demand in different words: hold documentary evidence before you publish a claim readers will treat as objective. So the question is not whether the word is allowed. It is what you would hand over if somebody asked. An accreditation can be relevant evidence, but only within its current scheme scope, and scheme scopes are narrower than people assume. We read all nineteen Law Society scheme pages and found that four of them cover the whole of one of the practice areas on our list; those four write "specialises in", with the scheme named in the same sentence. The other fifteen appear in your bio as what they are and nothing more. The Clinical Negligence Accreditation is the clearest example: its own page says it is designed for claimants and that you cannot hold it if you act solely for defendants, so it does not evidence "specialises in clinical negligence" as a whole. Whatever we write, check that the exact sentence is supported before you publish it.
Can I say I am an expert?
This tool will not write it for you, and that is a narrower line than the rules draw. The Law Society's own description of its Family Law Advanced Accreditation says it is "a way for you to show that you're an expert in your area of family law", so a holder has a real defence of the word. Read the same page a little further, though, and it asks for in-depth knowledge of at least two areas from a list of seven, and the tick you give us does not say which two. That is why we state that accreditation rather than build a claim on it. Write "expert" yourself if you hold it, keep the certificate where you can find it, and be ready to say which two areas it covers.
Who can call themselves a solicitor?
Somebody qualified and recognised in law as qualified to act as one. Section 21 of the Solicitors Act 1974 makes it an offence for an unqualified person to wilfully pretend to be a solicitor, or to use "any name, title, addition or description implying" that they are. Scotland has its own version in section 31 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 and Northern Ireland in article 22 of the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976. All three provisions create criminal offences.
Is "paralegal" a protected title?
We do not know, and we will not guess on this page. The statutes we can point to protect the description "solicitor". Section 17 of the Legal Services Act 2007 also makes it an offence to use a name, title or description intending to imply falsely that you are entitled to carry on a reserved legal activity, which turns on intent and context rather than on a word list. So this tool takes the conservative route: if you tell it you are a paralegal, it keeps "solicitor", "lawyer" and "admitted" out of your bio and offers your actual title instead. That is our rule, and we say so in the panel.
What do the SRA's rules actually say about a bio?
Less than you would expect, and it lands hard. Paragraph 8.8 of the SRA Code of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs is one sentence: "You ensure that any publicity in relation to your practice is accurate and not misleading, including that relating to your charges and the circumstances in which interest is payable by or to clients." Paragraph 7.1 of the Code for Firms applies the same paragraph to the firm as though it were a person. There is no approved wording, no list of banned adjectives. There is a standard, and your bio is publicity.
Does my profile have to say "authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority"?
Rule 4.2 of the SRA Transparency Rules puts that exact phrase on an authorised body's letterhead and emails; it does not specifically require the phrase in a personal bio. Rule 4.1 separately requires the firm's website to display the SRA number and the SRA's digital badge in a prominent place. A personal profile is part of that website, so the firm still has to meet rule 4.1 on the site. This tool writes a plain identification line for a person and uses the rule 4.2 wording in firm mode.
Will this produce the SRA digital badge?
No, and it will not imitate one. The badge is the SRA's, it is issued to the firm, and a picture of a badge on a page that has verified nothing would be the worst thing this tool could ship. Rule 4.1 is a website requirement your firm must meet in a prominent place on its website. If you want to know whether your site meets the rest of the transparency rules, the checker for that is linked at the bottom of this page.
I am a chartered legal executive. What can my profile say?
Your own title, in full, and the work you actually do. What it cannot say is "solicitor", "lawyer" as your job title, or "admitted", in any grammatical form: principle 3 of the CILEx Code of Conduct requires you to "not hold yourself out as having a qualification or professional status that you do not possess". The tool applies that automatically the moment you pick the title, and it names CILEX Regulation in your identification line rather than the SRA.
What about Scotland and Northern Ireland?
The regulator changes and so does the wording. A Scottish solicitor is regulated by the Law Society of Scotland; a Northern Irish solicitor by the Law Society of Northern Ireland, which the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 makes the regulatory authority for the profession there. Pick the nation first and the identification line follows. Northern Ireland's advertising regulations also bar inaccurate, misleading or unjustifiable statements, so the same claim guard is anchored to the nation's own rule rather than to a source-gap disclaimer.
Does anything I type get sent anywhere?
No. Open the network panel and press the button. What leaves is a request of under 2 KB carrying at most thirteen enumerated keys: your nation, your status class, your pronoun, the practice-area codes you picked, which of those an accreditation covers, your tone, and a few list keys. Your name, your firm, your number, your year and every sentence you wrote stay in the page. They are put into the draft afterwards, by your browser. The request is sent to our server and on to the model only to draft the reply; the text is not stored after the reply comes back.
Can I use this for an accountant's bio?
Yes, and the reason it matters is a quirk of UK law. ICAEW puts it plainly: "legally anyone can call themselves an 'accountant' - they don't need any qualifications, training or experience." "Chartered accountant", ACA and FCA are a different matter, and ICAEW enforces them. So the tool never writes a bare "accountant" as your title. It writes the qualification you actually hold, which is the thing a client cannot check for themselves.
What happens if the writing service is down?
You still get three bios. There is a template path built from the same fields, and it is what you are reading on this page before you press anything. The result says which one produced it. You can also switch the template path on deliberately in Advanced, under "Build it without sending anything", if you would rather no request left the browser at all.
Writing a solicitor bio the rules allow
Most bios go wrong in the same four places, and none of them is style.
The first is length of practice. "Over a decade of experience" is a sentence somebody typed, and the person who typed it usually rounded up. Your admission year is a fact, and so is the arithmetic on it. The error lives in the phrase in between. This tool does the subtraction and floors it, so a 2021 admission reads "over four years" until the calendar makes it five, and never the other way round.
The second is the specialism word. It is not banned in England and Wales, in Scotland or in Northern Ireland. It comes with a condition: evidence you could produce. The Law Society runs fifteen individual accreditation schemes and four firm ones, and holding one is the cleanest evidence there is, but only for what that scheme says it covers. Four of the nineteen cover the whole of one of the practice areas on our list. The rest are narrower than the area a client would read into them: claimant-only, tribunal-only, welfare-only, or a menu the holder picks two items from. If you hold none, or hold one of the fifteen, "works mainly in" says exactly as much to a client and costs you nothing.
The third is the superlative. "Leading" reads as a market-share claim to the people who judge these things: the ASA's own guidance says unqualified "leading" claims are likely to be understood as best-selling claims, and it cites a ruling where "a leading expert in cosmetic surgery" was read as a claim about turnover and expertise rather than what the advertiser meant. "Best", "top", "premier" and "unrivalled" are the same claim in different clothes. A high-street firm has no route to substantiating any of them.
The fourth is the matter you are proud of. A described case can identify a client even without a name, and in a small town or a narrow sector it usually does. The Law Society of Scotland's rule is blunt: promotional material shall not "identify any client or item of his business without the prior written consent of the client". Keep the shape of the work and drop everything else. "Represented a haulage company in a multi-day Employment Tribunal hearing" is a good sentence. The version with the figure and the company name is not a better one.
Before you publish
- Check your registration number against your own certificate. We printed what you typed and verified nothing.
- Check every accreditation is in date. An expired accreditation in a live bio is the claim this tool tried hardest to keep you out of.
- Read the final copy as a public claim about you. If any line goes beyond evidence you hold, edit it before publication.
- If your bio mentions a free first conversation, make clear what it involves. The CAP Code asks for the extent of the commitment, and one clause does it.
- Your regulator's own rules on how you describe yourself and your regulation are the ones that count. This page is a drafting aid, not a determination.
Your profile, and the two other pages a regulator reads
The short bio fits your listing.
When you claim your firm's listing with us, we use the same fields you have just filled in: your regulated status, your practice areas, the towns you cover, the languages you advise in and how a client can reach you. The directory version above is sized for our profile box.
Claim your listingClaiming lets you manage the business details shown in your listing and use the free tools described on our claim page.
Your price page is the one the SRA checks.
The transparency rules have their own requirements, they apply to the pages that quote prices, and they are audited. Different page, different rules.
Check your price pageBefore you take the client on.
The other thing a small practice gets asked for is what it did before it accepted the instruction.
Client acceptance checklist
Nothing here rates, ranks or compares individual firms, and claiming a listing never changes a ranking.
Firms listed with us, by nation
Or by the work you do
Where the rules come from
Twenty-six documents, every one of them opened and read rather than remembered. Each row names the paragraph this tool applies.
| Document | Published by | What this tool applies |
|---|---|---|
| DocumentCode of Conduct for Solicitors, RELs, RFLs and RSLs | Published bySolicitors Regulation Authority | What this tool appliesParagraph 8.8: publicity about your practice must be accurate and not misleading. |
| DocumentCode of Conduct for Firms | Published bySolicitors Regulation Authority | What this tool appliesParagraph 7.1(c): paragraphs 8.6 to 8.11 apply to the firm as though it were a person. |
| DocumentSRA Principles | Published bySolicitors Regulation Authority | What this tool appliesPrinciples 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5: public trust, honesty and integrity. |
| DocumentTransparency Rules | Published bySolicitors Regulation Authority | What this tool appliesRules 4.1 and 4.2: the identification wording, the SRA number, and the digital badge we do not produce. |
| DocumentPractice Rules 2011, rule B3 | Published byLaw Society of Scotland | What this tool appliesB3.4 puts the onus of proof for a specialism claim on the person making it; B3.5 bars inaccuracy and identifying a client without written consent. |
| DocumentCAP Code, section 3 | Published byCommittee of Advertising Practice | What this tool appliesRules 3.1, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9 and 3.11 and the Comparisons Principle: misleading claims, opinion dressed as fact, substantiation, exaggeration, superlatives. |
| DocumentAdviceOnline, "Types of claims: Leading" | Published byAdvertising Standards Authority and CAP | What this tool appliesHow an unqualified "leading" claim is read, and the rulings behind that reading. |
| DocumentSolicitors Act 1974 | Published byThe National Archives, legislation.gov.uk | What this tool appliesSection 21: the offence of pretending to be a solicitor, which is what title integrity rests on in England and Wales. |
| DocumentSolicitors (Scotland) Act 1980, and the explanatory notes to the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025 | Published byThe National Archives, legislation.gov.uk | What this tool appliesSections 31 and 57, and explanatory-note paragraphs 12 to 14: Scottish title protection, notary admission and the register. |
| DocumentSolicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 | Published byThe National Archives, legislation.gov.uk | What this tool appliesArticle 22: the Northern Irish equivalent of the title offence. |
| DocumentLegal Services Act 2007 | Published byThe National Archives, legislation.gov.uk | What this tool appliesSection 17: pretending to be entitled to carry on a reserved legal activity. |
| DocumentCode of Conduct | Published byCILEx | What this tool appliesPrinciple 3, outcomes 3.2 and 3.5: do not hold yourself out as having a status you do not possess. |
| DocumentCode of Conduct, Version 1.0 | Published byCouncil for Licensed Conveyancers | What this tool appliesEthical Principles 1 to 3 and outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.3, 3.2 and 3.5: integrity, honesty, accurate client information, good faith. |
| DocumentIndividual accreditations index | Published byThe Law Society | What this tool appliesThe closed list of fifteen individual schemes this tool will accept. |
| DocumentFirm accreditations index | Published byThe Law Society | What this tool appliesThe four firm schemes and the published scope of each: CQS, Lexcel, WIQS and the Tier 5 GAE scheme. |
| DocumentThe fifteen individual accreditation scheme pages, one per scheme | Published byThe Law Society | What this tool appliesEach scheme's own published scope sentence. That sentence, and nothing else, decides whether a specialism claim may be written on it. |
| Document"What is a Chartered Accountant?" and "Protecting the title" | Published byICAEW | What this tool applies"Accountant" is unprotected. "Chartered accountant", ACA and FCA are not. |
| DocumentCTA Membership | Published byChartered Institute of Taxation | What this tool appliesCTA and "Chartered Tax Adviser" as membership entitlements. |
| DocumentRegulations and Standards | Published byLaw Society of Northern Ireland | What this tool appliesThe Society is the regulatory authority for Northern Irish solicitors under the 1976 Order. |
| DocumentRegulatory scope | Published byCosts Lawyer Standards Board | What this tool appliesThe CLSB regulates costs lawyers in England and Wales. |
| DocumentSolicitors' Practice Regulations 1987 | Published byLaw Society of Northern Ireland | What this tool appliesRegulation 6: conduct bringing the profession into disrepute. |
| DocumentSolicitors' Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing Practice Regulations 1997, as amended in 2006 | Published byLaw Society of Northern Ireland | What this tool appliesRegulations 4 to 6: no inaccurate, misleading or unjustifiable statement, no client identified without consent, and who carries responsibility. |
| DocumentControl and Description Requirements | Published byACCA | What this tool appliesThe Chartered Certified Accountant description, and the ACCA and FCCA member descriptions. |
| DocumentProfessional Membership, and Licences and Services | Published byAAT | What this tool appliesMAAT and FMAAT, and the AAT Licensed Accountant and Licensed Bookkeeper descriptions. |
| DocumentGovernance, and the FAQs about notaries | Published byFaculty Office | What this tool appliesThe Master of the Faculties regulates notaries in England and Wales. |
| DocumentUK regulated professions and their regulators, and Requirements for Appointment of Notaries Public | Published byGOV.UK, and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland | What this tool appliesThe Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland regulates notaries public in Northern Ireland, and appointment runs under Order 107. |
The last line in that table was the one we could not open for a long time, and we would not invent it. The official cross-government register settles it now: the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland regulates notaries public in Northern Ireland, and the Department of Justice sets out how they are appointed. Where a source still cannot be opened, the tool names no regulator and says why instead.
Bookmark this one. There is no share link and no email button here, and that is deliberate: the form holds a named person's registration number, their qualification year, their firm and a description of a matter they worked on, so no field is ever put into a URL. Copy the version you want or print the page, and the draft goes only where you send it.