The Institute's standing NCS Working Party of is a profession-wide collection of employers, regulators and other organisations interested in creating agreed standards for non-lawyer legal practitioners and legal support staff.

1. Membership of the Working Party

The NCS Working Party is a standing committee and so membership remains open to organisations. Please contact us for further information (see Contact Us).

The NCS Working Party can be large because it does not meet - drafts are sent for comment by e-mail circulation.

Membership of the NCS Working Party does not involve any financial or legal or contributory obligation or risk. It is an informal grouping of organisations and not a separate legal entity. It has no power or ability to bind its members contractually or otherwise.

2. Members

The following organisations are either on/were on the NCS Working Party or have specifically requested a watching brief:

      Berrymans Lace Mawer
Birmingham City University Law School
Blackburn College
Bond Pearce LLP
Buckles Solicitors LLP
Charles Russell
Central College Glasgow
Cobbetts
Compliance Recruitment Solutions
Council for Administration
Crown Prosecution Service
Dawsons
Denton Wilde Sapte
Dickinson Dees LLP
Edwards Angell & Palmer Dodge LLP
Eversheds
Farrer & Co
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
Finers Stephens Innocent LLP
Fox Williams LLP
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Halliwells
Harvey Ingram LLP
HBJ Gateley Wareing LLP
Herbert Smith LLP
HR in Law
Jacobs Solicitors
Keoghs LLP
Land Registry
Law Society of England & Wales
Law Society of Scotland
Law South
LawNet
Legal & Contract Services Limited
Legal Education & Training Group
Legal Secretaries of DC
Legal Services Board
Legal Services Commission
Legal Services Ombudsman
Manches LLP
Mayo Wynne Baxter LLP
Mills Reeve
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Justice
Morgan Cole
Mundays LLP
New York City Paralegal Association
Nick Peterken, solicitors
Norton Rose
Pinsent Masons
Platinum Training Solutions
Police National Legal Database
Potter Farrelley & Associates
Reed Smith
Resolution
Shakespeare Putsman LLP
S J Berwin LLP
Scottish Paralegal Association
University of Lincoln Law School
Shearman & Sterling
Shepherd Evans
Simmons & Simmons
Skills for Justice
Solicitors Regulatory Authority
Taylor  & Emmet
Taylor Vinters
Thompsons
Thomson Snell & Passmore
TLT solicitors
University of Lincoln
University of Westminster
Weightmans
Wragge & Co