Membership in NALS will help you build upon your technical and functional legal knowledge and provide opportunities to network with other professionals who share your concerns, responsibilities, and interests.  Your participation will help increase the legal community's awareness of how important NALS legal support professionals are to the legal industry.

One investment provides you with membership at the Local, State, Regional and National levels.  Membership provides you with sources of expertise, stress management and time management skills, career advancement opportunities, increased knowledge and self-confidence in dealing with your employer's clientele.  You will learn how to meet the expectations of yourself and the opportunities for personal and professional growth are limitless.  These values of membership can be obtained through:

• Monthly local chapter meetings and educational programs;
• State, regional, and nationally sponsored workshops and seminars;
• @LAW, our award winning, national, quarterly publication;
• Three certification programs;
• Online Learning Center;
• Other group affinity benefits including, insurance, FedEx, and travel service.

To obtain contact information through your state and chapter affiliation, please visit the NALS web site:

http://www.nals.org/membership/states/Index.html

National Dues:

• New Members:  $130
• Continuing Member:  $120
• International Members:  $197
• Associate Members:  $75
• Continuing Associate:  $53
• Student Members:  $29
• Retired Members:  $53

Also, for people downloading the all-inclusive application (National, State, and Local) on the website:  $165

Engage 5 Campaign begins March 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014.

Any NALS member that completes the attached form and recruits five NEW members will get their national dues waived for the year (this exludes state/local dues).  The five new memberships must be in the same classification of membership as the waived membership, for example if you are a regular member, then you must sign up five new members in that same classification.  The new member must report you as their sponsor when they submit their application to NALS.  You must complete the .pdf waiver form that will be available on-line and submit to the Resource Center.  You will indicate all five NEW members by name that you sponsored.  As long as everything matches up and all five new members have been acquired within the time frame, the national dues will be waived for the year and you will only be required to pay state and local dues.

For more information, contact BLSA Membership Chairman:

Jennifer Paulson Jpaulson@burr.com