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Stay ahead in tech law with SCL Membership. Member benefits include:
✔️ Half price bookings on all SCL events – including webinars, masterclasses, and conferences
✔️ 50% off all SCL training modules – including our 17 module training programme Tech Law Essentials 2
✔️ Free access to a growing library of webinars, training modules, and event recordings (100+ hours of content) in the Member Resources Hub
✔️ Digital issues of Computers & Law magazine and our monthly News Review
✔️ Exclusive news and updates delivered directly to your inbox through the SCL member mailing list
✔️ The opportunity to apply for SCL Accredited IT Lawyer status (launching in 2025, subject to eligibility)
✔️ A supportive network to connect and share know-how with peers, clients, and the wider tech law community
Join today and start benefiting from expert insight, connection, and collaboration in tech law.
🔹 New members save 20% when signing up as a Professional Member for the first time — usually £170, now just £136 to start your journey with the SCL membership community.
🔹 Trainees can join for free for a maximum of 2 years, or until date of qualification
SCL offers a variety of membership options.
For professionals, membership is £170/year, but if you are an academic, student, unemployed, or experiencing economic hardship, you may be eligible for one of our alternative membership options listed below.
If you have any questions about which option is right for you, please email hello@scl.org.
Professional Member
Anyone who is looking to further their career in the tech law and legal tech sector
- Annual Membership – £170 (less than £15/month)
- Access to digital issues of our magazine “Computers & Law” and the monthly News Review
- Half-price SCL Events
Academics
Full time academics, graduate students
- Annual membership – £56
- Access to digital issues of our magazine “Computers & Law” and the monthly News Review
- Discounted SCL Events
Concessionary
Unemployed or experiencing financial hardship (at SCL’s discretion)
- Access to digital issues of our magazine “Computers & Law” and the monthly News Review
- Discounted SCL Events
- 6 months of membership
Trainee
Available to current trainee solicitors, trainee legal executives, trainee paralegals, pupil barristers or those in an equivalent role to the above.
- Free membership for a maximum of 2 years, or until date of qualification
- Access to digital issues of our magazine “Computers & Law” and the monthly News Review
- Discounted SCL Events
- Discounted Professional membership once qualified
Students
You are eligible for this membership if you are a student (full-time or part-time) currently registered at an accredited academic institution.
- Access to digital issues of our magazine “Computers & Law” and the monthly News Review
- Discounted SCL Events
Please note:
- Membership of SCL is pursuant and subject to its Articles of Association
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- SCL is a body approved in the UK by HMRC and the annual subscription is an allowable deduction from earnings from employment for tax purposes.
- All membership fees are stated exclusive of Value Added Tax.
- SCL membership is on an individual basis only and is non-transferable. SCL may add, remove or vary any category of membership or the benefits of being a member from time to time.
- Your SCL login details are for your personal use only.
- Your membership will continue as per our Articles of Association
- We will send invoices and reminders for future membership fees on or around the relevant anniversary of your joining date.
- Concessionary members will receive invoices on a six monthly basis.
- If you don’t pay the invoice your membership will be cancelled. We may allow a grace period before cancelling your membership, but this is at our discretion.
- If you receive an invoice but wish to cancel your membership instead, please contact us as soon as possible. If you don’t want to renew please let us know at hello@scl.org
- Memberships taken out via a subscription agency may be subject to an additional administration fee.
- Free membership will only continue whilst you continue to meet the eligibility requirement of that membership.
- You must let us know if you cease to meet the eligibility requirements for your membership.