About:
Liverpool Law Society is a membership organisation for legal professionals in the Liverpool City Region and beyond. It boasts 2200 or so members in practice; it is one of the largest local Law Societies in England and Wales. Membership is broad and varies from practitioners engaged in high-value commercial work to complex charity work.
Liverpool Law Society runs an extensive legal training programme with approximately 100 seminars and conferences organised every year in various specialist areas of law.
The benefits of membership are numerous and include representation, reduced rates for legal training, invitations to social and networking events, a copy of ‘Liverpool Law’ the Society’s monthly magazine and reduced rates on venue hire. Events organised by the Society for its membership include the Legal Awards, the Annual Dinner, the Conkerton Memorial Lecture, business networking events and a ceremony to welcome Newly Qualified Solicitors and Pupil Barristers to the legal profession.
The Society is led by 27 committee members. They include the President, Vice President, Honorary Treasurer and the two Joint Honorary Secretaries.
Liverpool Law Society also has an EDI Committee that was created in February 2020. This committee is aimed at supporting the local legal profession and those who work in it and covers 9 protective characteristics and social mobility.