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banking law, entertainment law, corporate and commercial law,
construction, trusts, environmental law, insurance, intellectual property,
tax, competition, shipping and arbitration.

Employed Solicitors
About 10% of solicitors are employed either by local or central
government, or by companies in commerce and industry, who have their
own in-house legal departments. A further 1,2000 solicitors are employed
full-time by the Crown Prosecution Service, a government agency which
prosecutes in criminal cases on behalf of the police. Employed solicitors
have equal professional status with those in private practice: they are
subject to the same rules and are recognized as fully independent lawyers.
They are simply regarded as having agreed to work for one client only,
their employer.

The Role of the Law Society
The Law Society has a number of other roles. It represents solicitors
in dealings with the Government and other bodies in such areas as
promoting law reform and discussing new legislation; it guides solicitors
by informing them of developments in law or in practice management, and
publishes books, journals and manuals to help them; it promotes the
solicitors’ profession and helps consumers of legal services find suitable
solicitors. The Law Society supervises the training of solicitors at all
stages. In order to fulfill all of its functions the Law Society employs
about 650 staff.

Task 3. Read the text and give annotation of it in Ukrainian.

Solicitors in Private Practice
Almost 90% of solicitor work in private practice, either as sole
practitioners or in a partnership. Sole practitioners are solicitors who own
and manage their own firms. To become a sole practitioner a solicitor
must have been qualified for 3 years. A partnership is where the
management of the firm is controlled by a number of solicitor-partners,
who divide the profits between them. Some employ a large number of
staff, including other qualified solicitors. They sometimes employ foreign
lawyers. Until recently it was not possible for solicitors to form a

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