Membership
Liverpool Law Society offers different categories of membership to Solicitors, Legal Executives, Barristers, Judges, Magistrates, and other members of the legal profession with approval of the General Committee.
Benefits of Membership
The benefits of membership are numerous and include major discounts for CPD courses.
Training
The Society aims in its continuing education programme to provide the highest quality CPD training with over 200 courses a year to choose from. The programme is made up of seminars, conferences, in-house seminars, joint ventures with APIL, ICAEW and the College of Law. The training courses are presented by the best local and national speakers and have proved extremely popular with members. Non-members may also attend the courses but at the non-member rate.
Find a Solicitor Listing
As a member of Liverpool Law Society your firm will have a listing on the Society's Find a Solicitor listing on the Society's website. This is consistently one of the most visited areas of the website. In addition, the office receive a number of telephone enquiries by members of the public looking for solicitors and the staff direct them to member firms who deal with the particular area of law required.
Social & Networking Events
There are numerous and varied events put on throughout the year which enable the Society’s membership to forge new and build on existing relationships not only within the legal profession but also with other professions such as accountants, surveyors and more. The events range from the formal to the informal.
Liverpool Law
This is the Society’s monthly Bulletin, which is delivered free to all members. This quality publication provides regular updates on procedural changes, discussion, debate and articles of general interest, many of which are provided by the members themselves. You are invited to make contributions too.
Venue & Video Conference Hire
The Society has three rooms available for hire, two of which are fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including video-conferencing and high specification furnishings. Members receive a preferential rate.
Recruitment
There is a recruitment area on the Society's website whereby firms may advertise for a position. Members are charged a preferential rate.
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Solicitors and Legal Executives
There are two different types of membership offered to solicitors: Corporate and Individual
Member firms can make a choice between "individual" membership, where each individual solicitor in a firm is responsible for their own subscription, and corporate membership, where the firm pays a subscription based on the number of solicitors in that firm.
Soliciitor membership is subject to formal election at the Society's monthly General Committee meeting.
For this reason, we ask applicants not to forward any payment when applying for membership as an invoice will be issued after election.
The Society's subscription year runs from 1st June - 31st May and annual invoices are issued to all members on 1st June each year.
Anyone becoming a member part-way through the year will have their subscription apportioned accordingly.
Legal Executives are included free under Corporate Membership or can pay for an individual membership. Note their membership is of associated status.
The areas referred to throughout are as follows:
AREA A:
Constitutes the Borough City of Liverpool, the Metropolitan Boroughs of Wirral and Knowsley, the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton and Widnes and Neston in the County of Cheshire
AREA B:
Any firms outside the above districts.
Please note that, in accordance with Article 5(A) of the Society’s Articles of Association, it is a condition of membership of a member who is a partner in a firm in AREA A, that the other partners in the firm are also members. Also note that, in accordance with Article 8(B) of the Articles, members within AREA A shall be entitled to full membership with full voting rights and members in AREA B shall be affiliate or associate members with no voting rights. The Articles of Association of the Liverpool Law Society are available for inspection. Please use the Contact Us form on this website.
The different Categories of membership of the Society are:
(A) Full membership - Any solicitor residing, practising or employed within Area A shall be entitled to be admitted as a full member of the Society with voting rights.
(B) Affiliated membership - Any other solicitor who does not qualify for full membership above, may apply to become an affiliated member of the Society, without voting rights.
(C) Associated membership - Any other member of the legal profession may apply to become an associated member of the Society with approval of the Committee.
Corporate Membership
The Society offers a corporate membership to firms. This has the beenefit of saving money on individual membership fees. Also included free in firms corporate membership are Legal Executives who will receive discounts on seminars, if they are employed by a corporate member firm.
Individual Membership
The Society's standard membership for individuals which includes the benefits as listed above.
Student Membership
Liverpool Law Society is pleased to announce the introduction of student membership. This is open to all students over 18 throughout the country.
Barrister Membership
The Society offers Barristers individual membership or, if their chambers requires, a corporate membership. The Society has a range of CPD events which are Bar Standards Board accredited and as a member is invited to the range of social and networking events put on by the Society. Barristers can also make use of the venue hire and video conferencing facilities at member rates.
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