ECLA negotiates special discounts for its individual members on conferences, seminars, legal literature, software etc.  

Typically ECLA negotiates discounts from 15 - 20% on all conferences or seminars to which ECLA lends its name. Often there will be a few free admissions to these conferences or seminars. To find out more click on Activities & Events then click Third Party conferences. You will find very attractive offers available to you by just stating that the organization of which you are a member is an ECLA member. 

10% Discount on all OUP books and other publications

ECLA represents the voice of the in-house counsel at UNCITRAL (United Nations Committe on International Trade Law)  where drafts are made for conventions on e.g. transport of goods wholly or partly by sea  (Rotterdam Rules), e-ommerce and Dispute Resolution. Often governments do not have  the manpower or resources to represent their business community. ECLA steps in here to represent the interests of the company lawyer and the companies they work for. As an example Prof. Frits Joost Beekhuizen van den Boezem, member of NGB in The Netherlands and in-house counsel for ING Bank, represented ECLA in the Vienna UNCITRAL Working Group meeting regarding the securitization of IP rights.

This topic is important for all financial institutions around Europe. However many EU members were not represented. ECLA steps  in where others remain passive.  

With the eminent help of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Sidley Austin, ECLA is involved in protecting the rights of company lawyers in the area of Legal Professional Privilege (Secret Professionnel) by acting as an intervenor in the AKZO Nobel case before the courts in Luxembourg. Besides ECLA the following entities intervened, The European Bars and Law Societies representng the outside counsels, The International Bar Association, a world wide organization of the Judiciary, in-house and outside counsel, The Dutch Bar (also mainly  for outside counsel) and the American Corporate Counsel Association which mainly represents company lawyers of American companies in Europe. ECLA can not be absent from these endeavours to strengthen the position of the Company Lawyer. The Task Force Legal Privilege works closely with the lawyers handling the case. In turn ECLA's lawyers have been coordinating the submittals to the European Courts  of the other intervenors. See under Task Forces then click Legal Privilege for Court filings, decisions and opinions.