The IOP: turning a job into a career; an occupation into a profession
Competency Standards for Paralegals
and Legal Support Staff
The Institute of Paralegals is the not-for-profit professional body that sets Competency Standards for paralegals and legal support staff.
We create standards with the help of more than 70 law firms, legal regulators, government departments and others who are either on our Standing Working Party or who have requested a watching brief.
Through this website you can get information about the Standards and download them free-of-charge.
If you want information about the Institute itself then please visit our website at www.theiop.org.
If you want to receive information about standards development work then please either join our working party (open to organisations only) and/or subscribe to our free e-newsletter, The Paralegal Practitioner: see www.ParalegalPractitioner.com.
