| advocate | advocate-depute |
| advocate-general | ambulancechaser |
| amicus (curiae) | articled clerk |
| attorney | Attorney General (AG) |
| barrister | barrister-at-law |
| bencher | cadi |
| canonist | Chief Justice (CJ) |
| civil lawyer | commissioner for oaths |
| Common Serjeant | conveyancer |
| counsel | counselor-at-law |
| county commissioner | criminal lawyer |
| Crown prosecutor | custos rotulorum |
| defence lawyer | defending counsel |
| Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) | district attorney (DA) |
| hakim | high sheriff |
| judge | judge advocate |
| Judge Advocate General (JAG) | junior barrister |
| jurisconsult | jurist |
| Justice of the Peace (JP) | justiciar |
| law agent | law lord |
| Law Officer (of the Crown) | leading counsel |
| Lord Chancellor | Lord Justice (LJ) |
| Lord Justice of Appeal | Lord of Session |
| master | Master of the Rolls (MR) |
| moulvi | mufti |
| munsif | notary |
| notary public (NP) | official (principal) |
| ordinary | paralegal |
| proctor | procurator |
| procurator fiscal | prosecuting counsel |
| prosecution lawyer | prosecutor |
| prosecutrix | public defender |
| public prosecutor | pupil-master |
| QC | Queen’s Counsel |
| recorder | registrar |
| resident magistrate (RM) | senator |
| serjeant-at-law | sheriff |
| sheriff-depute | silk |
| solicitor | solicitor General (SG) |
| Solicitor in the Supreme Court (SSC) | state’s attorney |
| surrogate | trial lawyer |
| undersheriff | vakil |
| writer to the Signet |