Sometimes you’re after a quick answer rather than spending hours researching the question yourself. By using a solicitor, you have access to the equivalent on an in-house legal department who can advise you on all areas of employment law (and commercial law).
Furthermore, you are going directly to the people you need. There are a number of HR and legal support services out there who are not legally qualified, but provide ‘legal’ advice. Even they end up coming to us to check what they are advising is correct. You can pass the middle person and instruct us directly.
Importantly to protect your business, by using a solicitor, you benefit from Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) on all correspondence and communication between you and your professional. LPP only applies to advice from legally qualified lawyers (i.e. solicitors and barristers) and means the advice we give you is not disclosable to an employee or in legal proceedings. You are using an expert in the law who has spent years of training and has years of experience of putting it into practice (and standing before judges to know how the courts and tribunals apply the law in practice).