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Membership Overview

• Benefits of membership
• Categories of membership
• Annual membership fees

 

A4ID is a membership organisation and strongly encourages lawyers and non-lawyers to get involved.

 

Benefits of membership

• Free entry to A4ID events, seminars and roundtable meetings
• Opportunity to take part in A4ID's Annual Training Programme (for details please visit our Education page)
• Weekly e-mails detailing opportunities to get involved in A4ID activities and development events
• Lawyer members also have the opportunity to vote at A4ID's EGM and AGM and to stand for trusteeship of the organisation
• Eligibility to deliver training on law or development related issues.
• Opportunity to use A4ID's online software for Members: A4ID Connect
  

Categories of membership

 

A4ID offers two categories of membership:

 

1. Lawyers

 

Individuals who are studying, practising or who have practised law.

 

2. Specialist

 

Individuals who have an interest in development issues and who can offer a variety of skills to support the UN Millennium Development Goals.

 

This is in keeping with A4ID's core aim to bring together the legal, business and civil society communities to share knowledge and expertise - working together to reduce poverty. 

 

Examples of relevant specialist skills include:

• Development expertise - practical/theoretical
• Experience in marketing/business development/PR/media/event management
• IT
• Financial/accountancy
• Design/photography

Annual membership fees

 

A4ID's membership fees are tiered to reflect your level of seniority and expertise:

 

£30 - Students/Trainees/Pupils/Specialist Members/Non-UK Members

£50 - Associates/Barristers

£100 - Partners/QCs

 

 

So what do our members think?

 

"I have had access to a broad range of opportunities through my membership of A4ID. I have been able to employ my background in international law and day to day experience in risk management in challenging and innovative pro bono projects concerning risks associated with charities and planning and delivery of international development projects and the furtherance of international human rights standards. The A4ID lectures and events with a range of international experts and practitioners have also been a very useful way to keep my field and subject knowledge up to date. I have thoroughly enjoyed the active debate (the relevant, irrelevant and slightly random!) and esprit amongst the A4ID members in the working groups and the Training Programme. I believe international development is an important conversation and I feel fortunate to have had so many ways to contribute to it through A4ID."

 

Nicole Bigby, Associate, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

 

 

"I became involved in A4ID as a trainee, when the organisation was in its formative stages and we were preparing for the official launch! What attracted me to A4ID is the potential such an organisation has to facilitate the engagement of lawyers across the city (and probably beyond) in issues that are encountered by NGOs every day and to utilise their legal skills to truly reach far and wide to a client base quite apart from the usual.

 

I am a member of the Development Rights Working group and Linklaters as a firm is an A4ID member too, and we recently were assigned (along with other law firms) the task of assisting Amnesty International in an update of its publication, the "Fair Trials Manual". Such a project was a mammoth effort which enabled lawyers at all levels of seniority and from a diverse range of departments to get involved; in fact by the time of completion, more than seventy lawyers had been involved. By the same token, it is very much up to me to decide how much or how little I wish to be involved, attend meetings or take up projects, and this flexibility is conducive to the fast-paced working climate we all find ourselves in from time to time.

I think A4ID and the concept of members of the legal profession acting in partnership to assist organisations that often struggle to find quality advisors is a great example for other professions and with a touch of idealism, I hope that this model can grow."

 

Aalia Datoo, Associate, Linklaters

 

 

Please click here to fill out the online membership form and sign up via Direct Debit. If you encounter any problems signing up via Direct Debit, please email info@a4id.org for a paper form.