Law Firms and Lawyers Associations

See also:

• 30 Largest Legal and Multidisciplinary Networks
• 60 Largest Law and Accounting Firm Networks
• International Lawyers Associations
• United States Lawyers Associations
• India Lawyers Associations
• United Kingdom Lawyers Associations
• Other Countries Lawyers Associations
• Trial Lawyers Associations

Legal and Multidisciplinary Networks

• Adlaw International Region:

  International

  Members: 23 Adlaw International is a global network of law firms specialising in advertising and marketing law. We service the needs of the modern advertiser in the global market place. With the combined strength of our local member firms through-out the world, we provide international clearance advice to advertisers and agencies who need to comply with the legal and regulatory issues in other markets.
• ADVOC Region:

  International

  Members: 90 Professionals: 5500 Each of the legal firms in membership of ADVOC is known and respected for its region and each has agreed to respond immediately to the needs of clients of other member firms.
• Advocacy Group

  Multidisciplinary

  Region:

  North America

  Members: 16 Professionals: 1500 An international inter-firm network focusing on public affairs and government relations. TAG provides a diverse array of professional Advocacy services through its members. TAG works with firms in all fifty states, Washington, D.C. and six countries.
• Advoselect Ewiv Region:

  Europe

  Members: 26 Professionals: 150 Die Advoselect EWIV (Europaische wirtschaftliche Interessenvereinigung) ist ein europaisches Netzwerk von Wirtschaftskanzleien mit Sitz in Stuttgart. Die ca. 183 Rechtsanwalte aus derzeit 26 Advoselect-

• Affinitas Region:

  South America and Europe

  Members: 8 Professionals: 240 Unlike traditional models based on opening dedicated offices, “best friend” agreements or diverse professional services networks, Affinitas was created with a new approach in mind: the ability to offer the common clients of member firms a high-quality, yet, above all, highly uniform service. Clients thus receive identical legal assistance and advice in any of the different countries in the Alliance, as if they were provided by one firm.
• Africa Legal (Norton Rose Group) Region:

  South Africa

  As a dynamic, national firm with offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, we have one of the largest legal footprints in South Africa, employing more than 500 people, with 200 lawyers offering expertise across the spectrum of legal disciplines. Our clients include financial institutions, major industrial and commercial corporations, mining houses, parastatals and government departments. Further, we provide an international pan-African legal service and expert legal advice to corpora-tions, investment funds and financial institutions doing business in Africa.
• ALAE Aliança de Advocacia Region:

  South America

  Members: 15 ALAE ALIANà‡A DE ADVOCACIA EMPRESARIAL[CORPORATE LAW FIRMS ALLIANCE] is an association of legal firms that specialize in the area of corporate law, With the objective of catering to both Brazilian and international companies and corporations by providing legal services of the highest quality and ethical order, ALAE proposes, in innovative style, to bring together respected legal firms with regional and cultural experience of Brazil, with a view to offering a unified and fully comprehensive service founded on excellence.
• ALFA International Region:

  International

  Members: 133 Professionals: 9000 Alfa is a global network of independent law firms. Founded in l980, ALFA is the oldest legal network and remains one of the largest and strongest. The ALFA organization is comprised of 120 member firms with 85 members in the USA and 35 members in Professional Services Networks in Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.

• Alliance of Business Lawyers (ABL) Region:

  Europe

  Members: 8 Professionals: 270 The ABL network links lawyers in Europe, North America and across the world. Wherever clients need legal or tax advice we can quickly get them the advice they need. We believe clients want the confidence of knowing their affairs are being looked after by advisers with a personal interest in them, who understand the issues facing them and their businesses everyday, yet who also understand the complexities of international transactions. Our high professional standards and skill means we can react more quickly, with greater flexibility and at more competitive rates than some larger cross border legal organisations. ABL members can communicate in a variety of languages, and our technology gives clients instant access to our network, its facilities and our services. The Alliance of Business Lawyers was established in 2000 following a merger between Integra Legal International and Druces International, and has since grown from strength to strength, and continues to attract more and more member firms from across the world.
• Alliott Group Legal Region:

  International

  Members: 169 Extending throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, Alliott Group has merged the reality of global ambition with the need for truly local coverage. Alliott Group brings together quality local firms that want to maintain their independence but recognise the benefit of being able to link up with link-minded professionals in most major markets of the world to provide a true alternative in the supply of professional services.
• Alliuris – Alliance of International Business Lawyers Region:

  Europe

  Members: 18 Professionals: 200 The ALLIURIS Group is composed of independent, medium sized law firms in Europe, who specialise in European and international business law. The experience of the firms covers all areas of civil and Commercial law to enable them to fulfill all the requirements of the medium sized company. Member firms are conversant with the requirements of international clients; the partners are experienced in understanding the differing approach of foreign clients to legal matters and are able to respond to their needs and questions; lawyers often speak several languages and many have undergone their legal Education in several countries.
• ALN (African Legal Network) Region:

  Africa

  Members: 10 Professionals: 60 Africa Legal Network was created with a view to providing seamless, high quality and efficient legal services to clients in the countries that Africa Legal Network is currently located as well as to those who may from time to time require legal advice in one or more jurisdiction. The association is structurally set up to operate as if it were one firm. It is the only association of its kind in East and Central Africa. In this regard, the member firms of Africa Legal Network work very closely together. For example, the member firms: Share library and precedent resources; Operate similar accounting and time recording programmes; Undertake joint professional training and development and second staff to each other on a transactional as well as a longer-term basis; Operate common marketing and administrative systems; and Operate similar quality assurance methods.

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Advocacy, Commercial law, Education, Hieros Gamos, International Lawyers Associations, United States Lawyers Associations.