For a flat fee of $600 for Ordinary members or $300 for Country members, Restricted Practitioner Members, CLC Members and Academic Members, CPD Freedom gives you access to an extensive range of seminars at no extra cost, $30 eLearning seminars and complimentary seminar papers. Terms, conditions and exclusions apply.

Unless you notify the Society otherwise in writing:
(a) your new membership status will be listed in the Society's Brief journal; and
(b) it is assumed that this Society is authorised to disclose the fact of your membership to any reputable organisation which the Society might be associated with if that association results in benefits to the Society

(a) my membership is subject to the Constitution of the Law Society (as amended from time to time);
(b) as a requirement for Ordinary membership, the Constitution of the Law Society requires an Ordinary member to be an Australian Legal Practitioner or a person who is lawfully entitled under the laws of the Commonwealth to practise in Western Australia;
(c) by:
(i) s5(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2008 (WA) (Act), an Australian legal practitioner means an Australian lawyer who holds a current local practising certificate or a current interstate practising certificate; and
(ii) s36(3) of the Act, a WA government lawyer engaged in government work (as those expressions are defined within s36) is taken to be an Australian legal practitioner;
(d) all Australian legal practitioners practising in Western Australia are governed by the Act (as amended from time to time) and bound by the Legal Profession Conduct Rules 2010 (WA) (as amended from time to time) in addition to any duty or requirement imposed on a practitioner by statute, law or equity; and
(e) As an Australian Legal Practitioner seeking or renewing membership of the Law Society the Professional Standards Scheme applies to me and in order to notify the Law Society of my participation I am required to submit a Professional Standards Scheme Participation Information form.
(f) As an Australian Legal Practitioner seeking or renewing membership of the Law Society and exemption from participation in the Professional Standards Scheme I am required to submit an application for exemption from the Scheme, or to be an Australian Legal Practitioner on whose behalf an application for exemption has been made.

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