Become a Member

This membership level is for attorneys working at a large law firm (20+ attorneys) or in-house counsel who are members of a Bar of any jurisdiction of the United States of America or a foreign attorney qualified in his or her jurisdiction but practicing primarily in the United States.

This membership level is for individuals working at a small law firm (up to 20 attorneys) and attorneys employed in a non-legal capacity who are licensed to practice law in any State, Territory, or District of the United States of America.

This membership level is for solo practitioners, and government and public Interest attorneys who are licensed to practice law in any State, Territory, or District of the United States of America.

This membership is for any person who is a dean, teacher or professor of law at any law school within the United States.

This membership level is for attorneys transitioning between employment opportunities who are members of a Bar of any jurisdiction of the United States of America or a foreign attorney qualified in his or her jurisdiction but practicing primarily in the United States.

A Law Student Member shall consist of any student who is enrolled in any law school in the United States of America.

An Associate Member shall consist of any person who is:

(a) A person employed by a law firm, corporation or governmental department, judicial or legal agency, or other entity devoted primarily to the practice of law, whose duties are those of law librarian, and who by training and qualifications is capable of rendering special services or being of assistance to lawyers incident to their utilization of a law library;

(b) A person employed by a law firm, corporate or government legal department, judicial or legal agency, or other entity devoted primarily to the practice of law, regardless of the title by which the person is classified with the entity, if such person devotes all working time to the performance of managerial and administrative duties connected with the entity;

(c) A paralegal/legal assistant who is qualified through education, training, or work experience, is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, governmental agency or other entity in a capacity or function which involves the performance, under the direction and supervision of a lawyer, of specifically delegated substantive legal work, which work, for the most part, requires sufficient knowledge of legal concepts that, absent that paralegal or legal assistant, the lawyer would perform the task; or

(d) A prospective law student

Associate Members do not have the voting rights of Members of NAML and are not members as described in D.C. Code § 29-401.02(24).