ALA MEMBERSHIP

Become a Member of the ALA
and the Silicon Valley Chapter!

The Association of Legal Administrators is an international association that offers you opportunities for professional growth through a variety of educational resources. It has over 10,000 members throughout the United States and 19 other countries, operating through over 100 chapters. The Silicon Valley Chapter alone includes members from over 100 private law firms or corporate and governmental legal departments in the South Bay Area from San Mateo to Monterey.

Managing the affairs of a law department has evolved into a complex profession and it gets more complex every day. We all deal with the difficulties of keeping up with the ever-changing practice of law, whether it is in private law firms, corporate legal departments or the public sector. The Association of Legal Administrators provides resources to help you in guiding your law practice to operate more smoothly and cost effectively.

What are the benefits of membership? Our local chapter provides an opportunity to network with and share resources with other legal administrators and provides continuing education opportunities.

Past seminars sponsored by the chapter include:

1. Annual Labor Law Update
2. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
3. Computer Technology
4. Equipment Leasing
5. Recruiting and Retention of Staff
6. The Challenges of Managing Lawyers

ALA members receive several excellent, professional publications and resource materials at no charge or reduced rates. Member discounts are available for ALA’s annual and regional educational conferences. More information about the ALA and the conferences can be found on the website at http://www.alanet.org. The web site also features such areas as online discussion groups where members post questions and receive feedback from other members all over the world, an online research library to assist with your questions or concerns on a particular topic, a career services area, and much more.

The Association of Legal Administrators is open to any legal administrator who exercises full-time management responsibilities or performs essentially all of the management or administrative duties for an organization without a full-time administrator. There may be more than one member from the same organization, such as managers for human resources, MIS, finance or facilities. Our members work in private law firms, corporate legal departments, governmental legal agencies, court systems and charitable legal organizations.

Membership in ALA International is a prerequisite to membership in the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators. Members of the Silicon Valley Chapter of Legal Administrators must continue to meet the requirements as set forth in the ALA’s International Bylaws, and must agree to abide by the ALA Code of Professional Ethics. ALA International membership information may be found at www.alanet.org/join.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the Silicon Valley Chapter of Legal Administrators, the membership application form can be downloaded at www.alanet.org/join/memberap.html. In section one of the Application ("Personal Information"), be sure to indicate that you would like to join the Silicon Valley Chapter. Once you have completed the Application, please send it to ALA headquarters and they will notify the Silicon Valley Chapter of your membership request.

For questions about ALA membership, please call or email:

ALA Silicon Valley Chapter
Director - Membership

 

Debbie Sanders
Rehon & Roberts APC
(408) 494-0900

email: dsanders@rehonroberts.com

Silicon Valley Chapter Discussion Group

This is a private forum for Silicon Valley Chapter members to post their law firm management questions, information, and announcements to fellow Silicon Valley Chapter members. Chapter members must agree to adhere to the Discussion Group Guidelines regarding etiquette, confidentiality, and other posting issues, as well as ALA Antitrust Guidelines prohibiting discussions of salary rates, billing rates, and other firm rates & costs that can be construed as price-fixing. If you are already a Chapter member, please click here to join the Chapter's Discussion Group.

Address Changes

Please help us keep your member record up-to-date by contacting both ALA Headquarters and the local Silicon Valley Chapter if you have a change in address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, employer, or job title.

1) To update your ALA Headquarters membership record, please use the Address Change Form online at www.alanet.org/memserv/addrcha.html.

2) To update your Chapter membership record, please contact Debbie Sanders, Director - Membership, at dsanders@rehonroberts.com.

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