Birmingham Law Society

Birmingham Law Society

The Birmingham Law Society is a professional association of solicitors based in Birmingham, England. It is the oldest such organisation in England and Wales, and the largest except for the national Law Society of England and Wales. [Citation | title = Paul Farrow Takes The Helm At Birmingham Law Society | url=http://www.birminghamlawsociety.co.uk/NewsDetail.asp?newsid=115 | access-date = 2007-03-10 . Final sentence of Press Release.]

History

The society was founded on January 3, 1818 at a meeting in the Royal Hotel in Temple Row. Birmingham at that time had no courts of its own and the society initially had 19 members out of a total of 54 lawyers practicing in the town. [Citation | last = Follis | first = Richard | title = Birmingham Law Society Bulletin February 2006 | chapter=The Times They Are A-Changin' | year = 2006 | url = http://www.birminghamlawsociety.co.uk/downloads/Bulletin_0602.pdf | accessdate = 2007-03-10 ]

The society took over the Birmingham Law Library, then based in Waterloo Street, in 1832. In 1934 both society and library relocated to their current premises - a former temperance hall on Temple Street designed by architect Charles Bateman in 1933. [ Citation | last1=Foster | first1=Andy | title=Pevsner Architectural Guides - Birmingham | publisher=Yale University Press | place=London | year=2005 | pages=121 | isbn = 0-300-10731-5 ]

Today the society is the largest local law society in England and Wales with 2,500 practising members in over 300 member firms from all over the West Midlands. [Citation | title = Birmingham Law Society | url=http://www.birminghamlawsociety.co.uk | access-date = 2007-03-10 . Infobox at bottom of page.]

External links

* [http://www.birminghamlawsociety.co.uk/ Birmingham Law Society Official Site]

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