Become A Member

Become A Member

BE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER

Join BLS and become part of the region’s leading professional community for legal practitioners. As a member, you’ll gain access to valuable networking opportunities, professional support, and a diverse array of events and resources designed to enhance your career and connect you with the broader legal community.

Membership is available on both a corporate and an individual basis

If you are interested in joining the Birmingham Law Society, please download and fill in one of the application forms below (editable Word documents) and send it to info@birminghamlawsociety.co.uk.

Membership categories

Corporate Membership

  • £195 per partner/barrister – capped at a max. of £3,675 (+VAT for barristers only)
  • The rate is based on the number of partners in the firm in the region / barristers in the chambers. Our corporate rate includes all employed lawyers as members of the Society to take full advantage of the benefits of membership. These include solicitors, chartered legal executives, paralegals and trainees.
Membership Application Form

Individual Membership

  • The rate is based on the number of solicitors within the team:
    £250 for teams of 1-10
    £550 for teams of 11-25
    £1,500 for teams of 26 or more
Membership Application Form

In-house Team Membership

  • £100 per individual (+VAT for barristers only)
  • If you are not a member by virtue of our corporate membership offer, the following are eligible at an individual rate: solicitors, barristers, chartered legal executives, in-house lawyers, foreign lawyers and paralegals.
Membership Application Form

Trainee Solicitor and Student Membership

  • £25 per individual
  • Suitable for trainees whose firm is not a member under the corporate rate, and for law students at local universities whose university is not a member.
Membership Application Form

Retired Membership

  • £25 + VAT per individual
  • Suitable for individuals who have retired from working in the legal profession.
Membership Application Form

All applications will be submitted to the Council for approval at its monthly meeting, after which applicants will receive confirmation and a subscription invoice. The Society shall admit to membership any eligible individual or organisation practising or operating in the Birmingham area.

Membership runs from 1 January to 31 December. New subscriptions taken out after 1 February will be charged on a pro-rata basis for the remainder of the calendar year.

If you recently joined a firm with a BLS Membership, you are already a member of the Society through your organisation and do not need to apply separately. To be added to our membership database, please email your details to us from your company email address. To check if your organisation is a BLS member, please click here.

Individual membership subscriptions are not transferable to another contact within the same firm. If an individual moves to a firm that is already a Corporate Member of the Society, the Society will reimburse them for the appropriate portion of their annual membership fee.

Students currently studying in Universities holding BLS Membership are considered members of the Society through their institution and will not need to apply separately. To be included in our membership database, please email us your details from your university email address. To check if your university is a member of BLS, please click here.

When a student or employee leaves a BLS Corporate Member, their membership automatically terminates. To continue as a BLS member, they are welcome to join as an individual member.

For students attending a university that is not a BLS Corporate Member and applying for BLS membership, a document confirming that the applicant is currently enrolled at a local university is required.

Please note that paralegals, students, trainee solicitors, pupil barristers and foreign lawyers not regulated by an approved regulator are affiliate members and do not have voting rights.

Join us today

When you join Birmingham Law Society, you become part of the largest regional network of legal professionals in the country.

Benefits include:

  • Unrivalled access to a host of career development opportunities, including networking and learning events, discounted training courses and specialist skills updates.
  • Representation by a powerful, collective voice on the issues that are important to you, from proposed changes in government policy to matters of professional regulation.
  • Exclusive member discounts and corporate benefits accessed via the members’ area on the website.

Individual members and contacts in organisations with corporate membership are sent the monthly magazine Bulletin, have access to the members’ area on the website, benefit from discounted rates for events and seminars and are able to join BLS sub-committees and Council.

For individual membership subscriptions, these benefits are for the named contact only and are not transferrable to another contact in the same firm.

Organisations subscribing to a corporate membership have the following additional benefits:

  • All lawyers and contacts in the member organisation can take advantage of the benefits without an additional charge.
  • Member organisations will be listed in our Find a Solicitor or Barrister search engine on the website.
  • Member organisations can submit news and articles for the Bulletin which are then shared on the website/e-newsletter and across social media.
  • Member organisations can sign up to our PR initiative for commenting on topical issues to the media.
  • Member organisations have the opportunity to advertise job vacancies on the Birmingham Law Society website.
Why join?