One community, personalized by you
- SCLA is a global community, a global vision and a global voice for the legal world. Its headquarters are in Geneva, home to the United Nations. It consists of over 250 members across 30 countries and regions and is in proud partnership with over 50 international organizations.
- Your community
Your SCLA experience is about your community. Discover what growing together means to you.
Connect in person, connect across borders
Join SCLA to discover in-depth personal relationships around the world. Connect directly with legal professionals and industry leaders for sincere conversations and dialogues in a relaxed setting. In the legal world of tomorrow, it is profound connections across borders that will contribute to the real collaborations and mutual benefits, in business and beyond.
“SCLA provides an amazing platform for exchanging ideas and solutions for contemporary legal issues and for communicating them amongst a global legal community.”
- SCLA MEMBER RICHARD THURSTON (US), FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF TSMC
Scale your impacts beyond the law
Discover the outstanding opportunities for putting your skills to use across a wide range of industries beyond law. It is time for lawyers and professionals in other industries to collaborate and learn from each other. Wherever you are, SCLA’s shared global vision will open your door to local industry connections.
“SCLA has always been a remarkable bridge builder for promoting and enhancing partnership amongst legal practitioners. In the near future, SCLA will be a trailblazer for strengthening the global supply chain.”
- XIAOBING TANG (CHINA), SCLA DIRECTOR OF MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS, FORMER SENIOR COUNSELOR OF WTO
Make a world you can trust
SCLA members trust each other fully and spread this ethos to every business or service they join. If you have a vision for a world where high-level trust makes trade and cooperation frictionless, you will feel at home. SCLA members have fostered hundreds of case collaborations, ranging from the establishment of critical high-level business infrastructures, to resolving complex multinational arbitrations and deadlocked business negotiations.
“The law is nothing unless it is accessible across national and cultural boundaries. SCLA Global has been founded to create that accessibility in commercial life by facilitating international access to advice and assistance.”
- SCLA MEMBER PHILIP HACKETT QC (UK), BARRISTER OF 36 GROUP
Connect through the shared vision
Be part of something huge. SCLA’s participatory events are your journey across the cultures. Discover new visions for your connected global legal market and profound relationships with colleagues in Europe, Asia and around the world. The SCLA network and virtual and in-person events offer you amazing opportunities for personal and business connections. Join us to expand the scope of what is possible to do in your new collaborative legal world.
“What has been my SCLA experience in a nutshell? Surpassing boundaries, connecting continents, liaising with people and advancing the rule of law.”
- SCLA GLOBAL FORUM REPORTER HERMANN KNOTT (GERMANY) , PARTNER AT KUNZ LAW
- Your journey
SCLA is your ticket to an adventure. Journeys broaden your horizons in business and in life. It is where we meet new friends and family.
Your new transparent legal world
Lawyers all over the world have a mutual interest in safeguarding business contacts. This concern transcends politics and cultures. Respecting and rising above our differences lowers transactions costs to make the transparent and efficient legal world we need for the future. Changing how we communicate has a revolutionary potential for international business. SCLA is your platform for creating trust around these shared values. SCLA members collaborate beyond cultural and geographical barriers. They promote the communication directly on a peer-to-peer basis. They build consensus to overcome conflict and celebrate our global relationships.
“Every day, we have to face new challenges in a globalized world. SCLA is a bridge amongst different cultures and jurisdictions, helping us exchange ideas, knowledge and experiences to find the best solution for our clients”
Expand your perspectives through SCLA
Be part of something huge. SCLA’s participatory events are your journey across the cultures. Discover new visions for your connected global legal market and profound relationships with colleagues in Europe, Asia and around the world. The SCLA network and virtual and in-person events offer you amazing opportunities for personal and business connections. Join us to expand the scope of what is possible to do in your new collaborative legal world.
“SCLA unites people interested in talking and reducing tensions rather than exacerbating differences. Since we work and live in countries with different political priorities and historical experiences, the person-to-person contacts promoted by SCLA is tremendous for building a prosperous and safe future for us all.”
Elevate your brand through SCLA partners
Future-minded law firms who share the values of global transparency and cooperation can become selected SCLA partners. SCLA is your portal to a fertile international network of clients and firms who are uniting the legal world. Through SCLA’s network, you will be benefited from establishing your brand among world-class companies, top-tier law firms, corporate counsel and international organizations in Europe, Asia and around the globe. Join SCLA as a law firm member and benefit from a new transparent collaboration mechanism. Bring down the transactional costs of cultural and industry barriers through direct international relationships, step into the future, and be at the heart of your new trusting legal community.
“When you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe, then you will be successful because you will realise that you cannot live without air. SCLA is contributing this fresh air to the new legal world.”
- SCLA MEMBER HON. LADY JUSTICE JOYCE ALOUCH (KENYA), FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Sharpen your critique for critical times
In addition to SCLA’s lively series of events where you will meet and talk to industry leaders face-to-face, the SCLA journal is your platform for establishing your views to a worldwide audience. Like our Global Forums, the SCLA Law Review is your opportunity to shape the direction of your industry. SCLA’s diverse and open-minded audience is perfect for establishing yourself in a legal space that encourages cooperative innovation and intellectual growth.
“SCLA is leading the way in acclimatising legal professionals to our new reality through its online forums, which keep all participants intellectually and professionally engaged. This is what will make SCLA grow steadily in importance and influence.”
- SCLA MEMBER GODSON UGOCHUKWU (NIGERIA), FOUNDER OF FORTRESS SOLICITORS
Resolve international dispuites amicably with new alternatives
Within the SCLA network, you will always find support to mediate conflicts across cultural boundaries. Be in business or law, our members help each other to solve disputes and promote collaboration. The Geneva International Dispute Institute (GIDI) was founded by members of the Swiss Chinese Law Association for this purpose and consists of more than 70 world-renowned mediators and arbitrators from 30 countries and regions.
The International Legal Community can benefit from a greater convergence of ideas and best practices. An organisation like SCLA can play a big part in achieving this by building bridges between different jurisdictions.
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SCLA MEMBER CHAN LENG SC (SINGAPORE),
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE SIAC
- Will you step into the modern world?
