Welcome to Watson Esam Solicitors

Established in Sheffield over 150 years ago, Watson Esam is an award winning legal practice based in Sheffield city centre. We are a medium sized firm of solicitors with talented lawyers who are passionate about delivering a first class service to our clients. We deliver a distinctive blend of high quality and personally tailored legal services to individuals and businesses in the Yorkshire region.

We pride ourselves on delivering practical, straightforward and cost effective legal solutions to our clients' problems. Our private client teams can offer the best advice and assistance on issues such as employment, residential property, personal injury, claims and disputes, divorce, separation, children issues, care proceedings and other family law as well as wills, probate and powers of attorney.

Our commercial team offers a wide range of services to businesses, charities and voluntary organisations in the region, including company formation, partnerships, buying and selling businesses and commercial property, leases, employing people, HR Personnel Plus employment law protection scheme, HR training, finance issues, profits and tax, commercial contracts, litigation services and debt recovery.

We can also advise on franchising your business, buying a franchise, preparation of franchise agreements for both franchisors and franchisees, franchise trading terms and conditions, franchise business structures and financing.

For medical practitioners we can advise on partnership agreements for both doctors & dentists, General Medical Services Contracts, Quality and Outcomes Framework, the 2006 Dental Reforms and buying⁄selling a practice.

Our family, employment and private client departments are recommended in The Legal 500, an independent guide to law firms, renowned as the definitive guide to the legal market.

We have won Yorkshire Lawyer Awards for our employment services and family law services and we hold an SQM which is the specialist quality mark of The Legal Services Commission in respect of publically funded work.