Claim your professional status, be ACILEx!
CLAIM YOUR PROFESSIONAL STATUS, BE ACILEx!
Are you an unregulated paralegal or law graduate, without a professional status? Do you work tirelessly for clients and for your employer yet feel invisible when it comes to your place in the legal industry?
By joining CILEx as an Associate member (ACILEx), you can shout ‘I am ACILEx’ from the rooftops and be counted, be valued and belong. Stand out from the rest and see what more you can achieve with us.
Join as an Associate member today to immediately access your ACILEx status and designatory letters that can be used on your business cards, your CV and gain access to a recognised legal profession and community. Your status can be claimed as soon as you join us – which means you could say I am ACILEx today!
As an ACILEx, you’ll join thousands of other legal professionals who look to CILEx to offer them a respected status, recognised by every legal employer in the country.
Your ACILEx professional responsibilities are set out within the CILEx Code of Conduct and your status is independently regulated. You’ll also be part of CILEx’s national professional membership body and gain access to its benefits and services so you’ll never feel invisible again! Not only will you have the recognition you’ve been searching for, you’ll have immediate access to developing further regulated and recognised professional status opportunities in the future.
- As with all CILEx membership grades, you’ll be a Member of a Chartered Institute with designatory letters ACILEx to use after your name (and on your business cards!)
- Re-present yourself: if you’re already doing the work and fit our criteria, you can claim your ACILEx status! Gain immediate value at work and gain access to a regulated and respected legal community.
- Feel valued? CILEx professionals are respected and sought after by employers and clients alike. Give yourself the edge in your career path.
- Who’s got your back? CILEx has. You’ll belong to a recognised and trusted membership community. CILEx has a strong reputation in the legal industry because we deliver outstanding professionals backed by independent regulation and an empowering code of conduct.
- With ACILEx status, you’ll have a recognised badge of competence for employers and for clients. Represented & quality assured.
- Want to progress in your organisation? Is your lack of status holding you back but neither you nor your employer want you to leave your existing firm? Join at ACILEx level today, reward yourself, recognise your role and use your new regulated status to your advantage!
- Join today and instantly gain access to all CILEx professional development support services, membership benefits and networking groups across the UK.
- Start off ACILEx and be counted. Fancy progressing? CILEx has an enviable lifelong learning and professional development route for general and specialist legal roles. As a member, you’ll always have access to our career development support portal.
- Looking to develop your role? With ACILEx status as a foundation, you’ll have the world at your feet and advisors to help you make the most of your legal career, today and tomorrow.
- You would be able to offer talented paralegals and other unregulated professionals a long-awaited chance to claim a recognised professional status and belong to national legal community simply by re-presenting their existing role!
- You can exceed clients’ expectations: You can offer your clients the services of regulated professionals with a recognised status, at all levels of your business.
- Struggling to retain your star talent because they don’t see a route towards getting a professional status? Any CILEx status helps to define employees’ roles & responsibilities, now and in the future. ACILEx is the perfect fit.
- CILEx guarantees you on-going quality assurance through our independent regulation, a professional code of conduct and annual CPD requirements.
- Can’t offer a training contract or have limited places? By offering ACILEx status over a paralegal title, you can attract & retain talented graduates.
- Are you a progressive law firm ahead of the curve? Does your blend of employees reflect this? Then reward talent. Offer those without a clear status the chance to become ACILEx – based on the work they’re already undertaking!
- All of your employees who fit the ACILEx membership criteria can join and stay connected, be inspired and motivated by the wider CILEx community. They will bring positivity, loyalty, new ideas and solutions back into your business, just watch!
- Get recognised as an ACILEx employer – work with CILEx to showcase how you and your employees have benefited from being an ACILEx member through our national profile, enhancing your recruitment reputation!
If you hold a qualifying law degree or the CILEx Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law & Practice then you can gain immediate access to all of the benefits listed below. It’s as simple as that!
Fed up with feeling left in the shadows? Worried you’re missing out on the opportunity of a happy, valuable and progressive legal career?
Claim your ACILEx status today and proudly say I am valued, I belong, I am ACILEx!
Criteria: ACILEx membership is available to graduates with Qualifying Law Degree (or equivalent) and those who have completed their CILEx Level 3 Professional Diploma in Law and Practice.
Registration/reinstatement £40
Annual ACILEx membership subscription: £190
Exemption application fee £50
Take a look at our exemptions information (tinyurl.com/h2lbfb2) to see if you fit the ACILEx criteria and qualify for an exemption.