The Law Society of Hong Kong is a professional association for solicitors in Hong Kong vested with statutory powers to regulate the professional conduct of solicitors, trainee solicitors and foreign lawyers. It was incorporated in 1907 as a company limited by guarantee.
The Law Society speaks for the solicitors’ profession in Hong Kong and ensures our voice are accurately and purposefully communicated to relevant parties
The Law Society is dedicated to providing relevant and effective support to our members including professional training and legal practice updates.
The Law Society is committed to facilitating the attainment and maintenance of the highest professional standards by our members in the interest of the community
The Law Society reaches out and maintains a wide local and global network for knowledge exchange, experience sharing and collaboration between our members and different sectors of both the local and international communities.
The Law Society strives to raise general public legal awareness, facilitate public access to legal services and promote a culture of giving back to the community among our members.
The International Bar Association (“IBA”) has recently published a research report on the social and economic impact of the legal profession, which aims to increase the general public’s understanding of the rule of law, the role of lawyers and the legal profession’s social and economic contribution to society.
As an institutional member of the IBA, Vice-President Careen Wong and Secretary General Heidi Chu attended an IBA meeting on 17 July. At the meeting, representatives of law societies and bar associations in the Asia Pacific region shared comments on the report and explored ways to convey the positive findings on the impact of the legal profession on society.
They took the opportunity to share with the international counterparts the Law Society’s work on rule of law education locally and outside Hong Kong, including youth legal education programme “Teen Talk”; “Law Week”, legal education and community service programme for the general public; and the law courses for Mainland law students endeavouring to help promote our country’s construction of foreign-related rule of law.
