Celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, Fraser and Fraser is one of the country’s leading genealogists and international probate researchers, dedicated to tracing missing beneficiaries to unclaimed estates, will searches, probate assistance and Medallion Signature Guarantee stamp.

www.fraserandfraser.co.uk

The Institute of Paralegals is a professional membership body that connects individuals with the shared purpose of providing professional legal services.

The Institute is the standard setting body for Paralegals as recognised by the unregulated legal services sector regulator, the PPR. We are the only Paralegal Body that is recognised by the voluntary regulator as having robust professional standards.

Our mission is to set professional standards, provide recognition for paralegals and promote professionalism.  Our purpose is to uphold the highest standards in knowledge, practice and ethics across the paralegal profession and to support individual paralegals in developing the skills and knowledge required to meet these highest standards.

www.theiop.org

Legal Futures is a leading news website tracking the fast-evolving legal landscape. Written by professional journalists, it provides cutting-edge daily news coverage on how alternative business models, new technology and regulatory reform are disrupting the marketplace and shaking up the way law firms do business. Read by a monthly audience of 55,000 lawyers and other stakeholders in the sector, Legal Futures frequently breaks important news stories ahead of other legal trade press and broadsheets. Its unique blend of hard-hitting journalism, market intelligence and expert analysis makes it the first port of call for anyone interested in keeping pace with the transformation of the legal market.

As a truly independent news site, Legal Futures is also able to provide proper scrutiny of the regulators and representative bodies in the law, and ask the tough questions, whilst delivering fair and objective reporting. Widely respected and well read by industry experts Legal Futures is the go-to source of information on the new legal market.

www.legalfutures.co.uk

Founded in 1934, chartered in 2016, the Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA) is a professional membership organisation with the power to shape law and practice – nationally and internationally.

It represents the interests of over 1,600 trade mark and design professionals, and fights to bring recognition to the work they do.

CITMA also feeds their enthusiasm for the profession through regular conferences and events, professional development courses, newsletters, social media debate and the CITMA Review.

It runs a well-established training course for trade mark paralegals and launched the CITMA Paralegal category of membership in 2017.

Its community of members includes fully qualified trade mark attorneys, those in training and support roles, and barristers and solicitors with a trade mark or design interest working around the world.

CITMA has legal responsibility for regulating the trade attorney profession, which is delegated to the Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg).

www.citma.org.uk

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators is an international centre for excellence for the practice and profession of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).  Our growing membership of 15,000 is based across 133 countries and supported by an international network of 39 branches. 

CIArb provides education and training for arbitrators, mediators and adjudicators.  It also acts as a global hub for practitioners, policy makers, academics and those in business, supporting global promotion, facilitation and development of ADR methods. 

CIArb offers a range of resource including guidance, support, advice, networking and promotional opportunities, as well as facilities for hearings, meetings and other events.   It is a not-for-profit, UK registered charity.

www.ciarb.org

The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is the professional and examining body for patent attorneys in the UK, representing virtually all the 2,400 registered patent attorneys in the UK, whether in industry or in private practice.

Total membership is over 4,000 and includes judges, barristers, trainee patent attorneys and other professionals with an interest in intellectual property.

CIPA represents the views of the profession to policy makers at national, European and international level, with representatives sitting on a range of influential policy bodies and working groups in the UK and overseas.

www.cipa.org.uk