What we do

The NALP advocates on our members behalf to the Legal Services Board, Legal Services Commission, Ministry of Justice, Skills for Justice, Solicitors Regulation Authority and The Law Society. The NALP aim is to strengthen the voice of NALP Paralegals in the legal world.

The importance of regulated training

The role of the paralegal is crucial to the practical and economic sustainability of the provision of legal services by solicitors' practices. They are an extremely important part of the legal profession, but an underestimated one.

Before the NALP introduced self-regulation, the main difficulty for paralegals was that, unlike Legal Executives, they had not been specifically identifiable. The title 'paralegal' on its own, is a generic term and does not distinguish the skilled from the unskilled.

To take full advantage of all that fee-earning unadmitted staff in law practices have to offer, skilled Paralegals need a distinct identification by obtaining recognised training, qualifications and self-regulation and Licensing.