All members of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter must be members in good standing of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA). For information and an application form for ALA membership, visit our ALA National section of the ALA web site at www.alanet.org.  

The criteria for each of the two primary categories of ALA membership are as follows:

Regular Membership

Full-time legal administrators or support managers employed in a private law firm, legal service clinic, corporate legal department, university legal department, governmental legal agency, court system, charitable legal agency or some other organization engaged primarily in the practice of law.

Associate Membership

Associate membership is available for those individuals interested in legal administration, but who do not meet the criteria for regular or international affiliate membership, and who are:

• Practicing lawyers with principal management responsibility in their legal organization.
• Individuals who devote 100% of their working time and are engaged in an ongoing employment-type relationship which involves providing continuing management services to no more than three legal organizations as described in Regular Membership.
• Retired legal administrators who are not otherwise employed.
• Unemployed legal administrators as described by ALA Headquarters criteria .
• Full-time teachers of business, management or law-related disciplines at institutions of higher learning, as well as deans with administrative and management responsibilities at such institutions.
• Full-time students in business, management or law-related studies at institutions of higher learning.
• Bar association executives.

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