About us

ECLA is the umbrella organisation for 21 company lawyer associations in Europe and represents more than 29,000 individual company lawyers.

ECLA was created in 1983. It is an international non-profit association governed by Belgian law.
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Membership is open to national associations only. While individuals are not members of ECLA directly, each company lawyer, who is a member of a national association, can benefit from ECLA’s activities. These include discounts to conferences, legal education training, free publications and more. 

During the past 25 years, ECLA has gained recognition as the leading representative of European company lawyers associations and their individual members. In this unrivalled position, ECLA has a platform to respond to and influence the European in-house corporate counsel network, European organisations and policy making bodies.

ECLA's primary goal is to remain the number one in-house lawyer association in Europe.  In order to achieve this goal, ECLA’s programme includes:

• Recognition of the profession of company lawyer      
  
• Legal professional privilege
  
• Continuing legal education
  
• Networking opportunities
  
• Liaison with other legal associations
  
• Increasing the number of sponsors and partners  
  
• Expanding ECLA’s membership particularly 
  in Eastern European countries 
  
• Providing real and visible benefits to members
  
• Increasing ECLA’s visibility to the external world
  
• Effectively using ECLA's assets

ECLA's registered office is at Rue des Sols 8,
1000 Brussels, Belgium.