Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
-
Info
City of London Law Society (CLLS)
EU Transparency Register
24418535037-82 First registered on 19 Jan 2011
Goals / Remit
The City of London Law Society is one of the largest local Law Societies in the United Kingdom. There are 17,000 solicitors practising in the "Square Mile", who account for 15% of the profession in England and Wales, represented by the CLLS through individual and corporate membership. The CLLS was originally part of the City of London Solicitors' Company which was founded in 1908, but in 1969 a separate Committee structure was set up to deal with all professional business and since 1986 this has been known as the City of London Law Society.
Following the introduction of Corporate Membership of the Society in 2006, which allowed firms to have individual membership for all of their solicitors practising from their City of London offices, the membership of the CLLS has increased significantly and now includes over two thirds of the solicitors practising in the City of London.Main EU files targeted
Financial law, company law, corporate and commercial law; employment law; law relating to climate change and the environment.
Address
Head Office
4 College Hill
London EC4R 2RB
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
4 College Hill
London EC4R 2RB
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.25
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The Legal Policy Analyst at the City of London Law Society (CLLS) may engage in monitoring policy issues emanating from the European Commission on policy matters. In addition, the members of the CLLS’s various committees may from time to time involved in preparing responses to consultations, and other policy papers, for submission to the European Commission on various issues. Their work, however, is primarily engaged with the HM Government departments, and other UK stakeholders.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
International Bar Association (IBA)
International Institute for Law Association Chief Executives (IILACE)
World City Bar Leaders group
Law Society of England and WalesMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
The CLLS employs four people, three of whom are part time. The Legal Policy Analyst of the CLLS alone has a watching brief on the Secretariat issues which are sent to him by the Secretariat, and, where necessary, sends information on to the CLLS specialist committees for them to consider. This forms a very small part of his terms of employment. He does not attend EU events, does not go to EU forums, nor work in any EU jurisdictions.
The CLLS Specialist committees are made up of volunteers from law firms in the City of London. They are not paid for their work for the CLLS, which is additional to their work as partners or employees of UK law firms. Many city of London law firms separately subscribe to the Transparency Register, so would be covered under their own registration.
The CLLS does not have an office in the EU.
The CLLS is a separate organisation as the national Law Society, about which there may be some confusion at the Secretariat. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
None.
Other activities
The CLLS’s representational activities at the EU level focus primarily on issues that affect the regulation of its Member firms (i.e. those firms with offices in the City of London who are members of the organization).
In particular, these include issues affecting the ability of law firms to operate within non-UK European jurisdictions (including in a multi-jurisdictional manner) and the relevant directives impacting on this.
The CLLS's specialist Committees also consider and, where appropriate, draft representations on, a number of areas of EU legal policy as they relate to their specific areas. We currently have specialist Committees in the following areas:
- Associates Forum
- Commercial Law
- Company Law
- Competition Law
- Construction Law
- Corporate Crime & Corruption
- Data Law
- Employment Law
- Energy Law
- Financial Law
- Insolvency Law
- Insurance Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Land Law
- Litigation
- Planning & Environmental Law
- Professional Rules & Regulation
- Regulatory Law
- Revenue Law
- Training
Meetings
Meetings
None declared