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The Trainee Solicitors’ Group (TSG) and Young Solicitors Group (YSG) are being rolled into one this month to form the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD), which, with 40% of solicitors eligible for membership, could be an influential force in the legal world.
Open to enrolled students, trainees and solicitors with up to five years’ active practice, it will be the voice of junior lawyers across the country and in every type of practice. Membership is free for those enrolled with the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Keith Etherington, Law Society council member for the JLD, says: “The new group frees volunteers from the rigours of running limited companies (which both the TSG and YSG were) and releases them to do what they do best: actively and persistently lobby on behalf of a vulnerable section of the profession.”
Membership benefits include a helpline and access to advice via a range of specialist personal support services, as well as social and networking events.
Andrew Holroyd, Law Society president, says the JLD will give a “voice to diversity” and has a vital role to play for those who are training in the profession, not least because of the networking opportunities it offers. “Any networking we do goes into the bank of assets we accumulate as we move through our careers,” he says.
