The NZLS is a professional body for practising lawyers in New Zealand. It represents them at national level.
Associate membership is designed for people who already have close links to the legal profession.
It is unnecessary, therefore, to describe the role and work of the NZLS in any detail because you will know that it exists to promote the interests of the legal profession and the interests of the public in relation to legal matters. It also promotes and encourages proper conduct among its members. You will also know that the NZLS has a comprehensive range of committees and groups dealing with the regulation and discipline of the profession, with all aspects of the practice of law and with matters of legal and public interest. Lawyers who have been suspended or struck off the Roll are ineligible. Nominations for appointment as an associate member are made by practising members of the NZLS on a prescribed form and verification by statutory declaration.