 However, successful applicants tend to be barristers, or (in Scotland) advocates with 15 years of experience or more.The Attorney General, Solicitor-General and King's Serjeants were King's Counsel in Ordinary in the Kingdom of England.The first Queen's Counsel "Extraordinary" was Sir Francis Bacon, who was given a patent giving him precedence at the Bar in 1597, and formally styled King's Counsel in 1603.