This chapter traces the history of the English legal profession, which begins around 1200. From the beginning, a distinction was made between the legal profession and the legal profession. Oral arguments before the Court of Common Pleas became the Ordinance of Serjeants in Law around 1300, from which senior judges were chosen. A law school for “apprentices of the bank” in the thirteenth century was rebuilt in the following century as a collegiate system, the court inns and the chancery, with their own apprenticeship exercises and diplomas (bencher and barrister). Lawyers practised as lawyers, but not as part of joint pleas. In Tudor times, lawyers appeared as general practitioners. The Serjeantes lost their primacy to the new rank of the Royal Council, but survived into victorian times. It reports on the judiciary and its independence, civilian practitioners in Doctors` Commons and the transfer of law education to universities.