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My Ancestor was a Lawyer by Brian Brooks and Mark Herber which gives an overview of the legal profession in England and Wales and it's records. Chapters include lawyers: their societies, institutions and records, published records of lawyers, records of the courts and much more. There is also a section on lawyers in Scotland, Ireland and English laywers overseas.

Some researchers will know that an ancestor was a lawyer. In other cases, an ancestor's career as a lawyer may be revealed in documents such as civil registration records, census returns, parish registers or wills. The fact that an ancestor was a lawyer may make research much easier, as lawyers tended to come from prosperous families, and so they are more likely to have left wills, or to marry by licence (rather than banns) and own a house. This volume describes the records of lawyers in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland (and of English lawyers in India).