Welcome from the Chair

Welcome to the Junior Lawyers Division website

The JLD represents approximately 70,000 junior lawyers. Our membership includes LPC students and graduates, trainee solicitors and solicitors up to five years qualified. Membership is free and automatic.

Through our executive committee, national committee and network of local groups in England and Wales, we engage with our members.

The role of the JLD is to support, promote and represent its members across England and Wales to ensure any development of the profession is in the best interests of our members. Although the JLD is a division of the Law Society, the JLD has an independent voice.

Find out more about the JLD and what we do

Our focus for 2019 includes:

• access to the profession (including the SRA proposal for a centralised assessment, the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) to qualify as a solicitor)
  
• access to justice
  
• continuing to promote resilience and wellbeing in the profession
  
• raising awareness and educating our members of the impact and development of legaltech

We have a number of London-based and regional events in the pipeline for 2019. Keep a look out for the following:

• LPC Forum, Liverpool (9 February 2019) - open to LPC students and graduates seeking a training contract
• JLD Forum, Southampton (2 March 2019) - primarily aimed at trainee and newly qualified solicitors
• Annual Conference and Ball, London (6 April 2019)
• Both forums will also be repeated in London in September and October 2019

Please feel free to e-mail us at juniorlawyers@lawsociety.org.uk with any questions, concerns or comments you have, and - as your representative body - we will be happy to assist.

For regular updates, you can also follow us on:

• Twitter (@juniorlawyers)
• Instagram (@juniorlawyersdivision)
• Facebook (Junior Lawyers Division)
• LinkedIn (The Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society of England and Wales)



Thank you

Amy Clowry
Chair, Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society