Become a director of Liverpool Law Society and have an opportunity to shape the future of one of the most active local Law Societies in England and Wales. You will make professional contacts and friends, be at the centre of the work and decision-making of Liverpool Law Society and work shoulder-to-shoulder with other legal professionals, regardless of status and seniority.
We would like to have a committee which is as representative as possible of the wide membership the Society encompasses. We have over 2200 members from all branches of the legal profession. Please note only full* members of the Society are eligible for election to the General Committee.
The Society’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 1.00pm on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
By standing for election at this year’s AGM in November, you would become a member of General Committee. The General Committee consists of up to 27 directors, who each serve a three-year term. Every year, nine members of the General Committee retire by rotation at the AGM: up to five of those due to retire may be nominated by the Committee for re-election, and the others are not eligible for re-election until the next AGM.
The nominee must be a member of the Society, be nominated by three members of the Society and serve a three-year term.
Members of the Society will receive an email in mid-October with details on how to nominate a full member of the Society to become a director. The nomination form must be completed and returned to the Society by 1.00pm on Monday 24th October 2022. Elections will then take place at the AGM in November.
If you would like further information about the Society and the work of the General Committee and sub-committees please visit http://www.liverpoollawsociety.org.uk/about-the-society/committees or email committees@liverpoollawsociety.org.uk and we will get back to you.
*Full member
The following persons practising or working in the Area (Area means the City of Liverpool, the Metropolitan Boroughs of Wirral, Knowsley, St. Helens and Sefton; and Widnes and Neston in the County of Cheshire;) (with the exception of the persons referred to in Article 27.1.2 who are not required to be practising or working in the Area but shall have been so practising or working immediately prior to his or her retirement) shall be eligible to be Full Members of the Society:
27.1.1 any solicitor who holds a current practising certificate;
27.1.2 any solicitor on the Roll who has retired from practice;
27.1.3 any barrister;
27.1.4 any Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives;
27.1.5 any registered foreign or European lawyer who is regulated by an Approved Regulator;
27.1.6 any person holding a judicial appointment or teaching law;
27.1.7 any trainee solicitor;
27.1.8 any patent attorney;
27.1.9 any licensed conveyancer;
27.1.10 any notary public;
27.1.11 any trade mark attorney;
27.1.12 pupil barristers; and
27.1.13 subject to Article 29, any person who is in a senior position at an organisation providing legal services which is subject to supervision by an Approved Regulator and who is approved by the Committee.