In the plain kingdom and countries having a similar legal system the legal profession is divided into two kinds of lawyers: the legal consultants who contact and advise customers, and lawyers who discuss the cases in front of the court (known as lawyers in Scotland). Whenever a test is necessary a customer must employ a legal consultant, who will advise it and then will maintain a lawyer on his behalf.

Legal consultants are generally limited to the country using the system UK based of the common Low. Before the unification of the supreme court in 1873, the legal consultants practiced in the court of Chancery, whereas the agents and Proctors practiced in the Common Low and the ecclesiastical courses respectively.

In the English legal system the legal consultants traditionally treated any legal matter independently of the steps of control in front of the court (recommendation). The other connects English legal profession, a lawyer, traditionally carried out this function and delivered an opinion on complex sectors of law. The lawyers would not have business with the direct public. 

Legal consultants in England and with the Country of Scales are regulated by the company of law of England and the Country of Scales (which wears the hat of the regulator and the union) and in order to go well to a legal consultant must have had a legal education of qualification. The most common methods are a normal degree of law of student preparing a license (a bachelor in laws, or ' LLB '), or a degree in any subject followed by a law to line year in a course formerly called the common professional examination and recently retire the higher university diploma in routes of Law. Other, for example the time of expenditure as clerk to the magistrates, or the going beyond of the examinations regulated by the institute of the legal executives (ILEX) are possible. Up to this point a lawyer and a legal consultant have same education.