Council membership committee: north east seat

The Law Society's Council membership committee was established under the by-laws to oversee the representative nature of the Council.

Key tasks include advising the Council on the type of solicitor who should fill the non-constituency seats and keeping under review the size of the Council and the constituency boundaries.In order to ensure that the Committee itself is properly representative, members are drawn from geographical regions and from the main Law Society groups.There is currently a vacancy for the north east seat on the Committee.The term of appointment would be three years, and traditionally, the time commitment required has not been very high.

However, the Committee is undertaking a wide review of Council membership and consequently, the number of meetings is likely to increase to approximately six for the remainder of this calendar year.

Nominations to the north east seat are invited from solicitors in the geographical area.Nominations should be addressed to Lisa Pepper, Secretariat, Corporate Planning and Administration, The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL.

LDE 56 (telephone 020 7316 5660/direct fax 020 7320 5759).

The closing date for nominations is Monday 15 May 2000.