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The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the 110 livery companies of the
City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London f ...
. The company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The company received a
royal charter A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, b ...
in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the company functioned as a
law society A law society is an association of lawyers with a regulatory role that includes the right to supervise the training, qualifications, and conduct of lawyers. Where there is a distinction between barristers and solicitors, solicitors are regulated ...
for the city's
solicitor A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions. A person must have legally-defined qualifications, which vary from one jurisdiction to another, to be described as a solicitor and ...
s. Today, the company mainly functions as a charitable body. The company is not to be confused with the ''London Solicitors'' UK legal firm. The Company ranks seventy-ninth in the
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for livery companies. Its motto is ''Lex Libertatis Origo'', Latin for ''Law is the Source of Liberty''. The company is a member of the Financial Services Group of livery companies, the other 11 members of which are the Worshipful Companies of Chartered Accountants,
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,
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, International Bankers, Chartered Secretaries and Administrators,
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, Information Technologists,
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, Marketors, Tax Advisers, and World Traders.


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The Solicitors' Company
Solicitors A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions. A person must have legally-defined qualifications, which vary from one jurisdiction to another, to be described as a solicitor and ...
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