About Us

Established in Sheffield over 150 years ago, Watson Esam is an award winning solicitors' practice still based in Sheffield city centre. Originally a fairly small firm, our 3 dynamic and progressive partners have led the firm to substantial growth in recent years, enabling us to deliver a first class service to our clients. Our talented lawyers are passionate about delivering a distinctive blend of high quality, personally tailored legal services to a wide range of individuals and businesses in the Yorkshire region.

We pride ourselves on delivering successful, 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, property, personal injury, claims and disputes, divorce, separation, children issues and other family law as well as wills, trusts, 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, employment law protection scheme, HR training, finance issues, profits and tax, commercial contracts, claims and disputes and debt recovery.

Our family, employment and charities 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 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.