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Become a company lawyer

To become a company lawyer (an IBJ-IJE member) you must fulfil the following conditions:

hold a licentiate degree, a Master’s degree or a doctorate in law or in notarial law, issued by a Belgian university or an equivalent foreign degree;
be bound by an employment contract or statute to an employer that carries out an economic, social, administrative or scientific activity in Belgium, in the public or private sector. This employer is a company, an association of companies, or an entity with legal personality;*
provide studies and consultations, draft legal documents, provide advice on the ascertainment of legal position and provide legal assistance for the benefit of this employer, its affiliated companies or institutions, its associations or their members;
have mainly legal responsibilities;
exercise your profession in complete intellectual independence.

I fulfil these conditions and would like to become an IBJ-IJE member.I do not fulfil these conditions and wish to become an associate member

* Exception: since 1 June 2023, as an exception to the condition of being bound by an employment contract or statute to an employer, membership of the Institute may also be conferred on a natural person who is a member of the management body of a legal entity if the law prohibits this member from exercising this management mandate by means of an employment contract. Please contact us in advance to check this condition with us (info@ije.be).

General information

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Have you been an IBJ-IJE member previously?

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Are you active as a jurist?

As an self-employed natural person?By means of a one-person legal entity?

Do you (or your one-person legal entity) have a service agreement with the company where you work as a jurist?

YesNo, linked through a human resources placement firmNo, related through a legal services firm

Your personal contact details

First name

Name

Gender

MaleFemaleX / I would prefer not to say

Date of Birth

Nationality

Private phone number

Private e-mail address

I would like to receive communications from the IBJ-IJE at this e-mail address

YesNo

Address / Street + n°

Address / Postal code

Address / City

Address / Country

Your professional contact details

Name of the company to which you provide studies and consultations, for which you draft deeds, which you give advice on the legal situation and/or provide legal assistance

Name of the company where you work

Legal form

VAT number

Address / Street + n°

Address / Postal code

Address / City

Address / Country

Professional phone number

Professional mobile number

Professional e-mail address

I would like to receive communications from the IBJ-IJE at this e-mail address

YesNo

To enable and encourage contacts between IBJ-IJE members, your professional email address will be visible in the MY IBJ/MY IJE member area. If you wish to object, check the following box.

Do not display my professional email address in the MY IBJ/MY IJE member area directories.

If you perform these activities as an associated member of the IBJ-IJE for more than one company, please indicate below the name of the other company/ies. Explain the time you spend on the different beneficiaries and how your activity is organised for the benefit of several companies (Note: companies in the same group are not considered as different companies).

If your invoicing details differ from those entered above, such as if the invoice is to be sent to another company or to you personally, then please click here.

Note: it is mandatory to enter your personal invoicing details [as a self-employed natural person or a one-person company] if you are connected to the beneficiary/ies of your legal services through a human resources placement company or a legal services company.

Your invoicing details

Name of the company that should be invoiced

Legal form

VAT number

Address / Street + n°

Address / Postal code

Address / City

Address / Country

Invoice e-mail address

Your diplomas and certificates

Upload here your Ph.D, Master's or licentiate's diploma(s) in law or notarial law or equivalent foreign diploma(s)* (not required in case of re-admission)

Upload here your bachelor’s or candidacy diploma(s) in law or legal practice, or an equivalent foreign degree.*

Upload here your Master's degree in Law, Economics and Management of a minimum of 120 ECTS or equivalent credits that may be recognised by our Council for the high quality study of Law, Economics and Management.

* If it concerns an equivalent foreign diploma, then you must provide the necessary documents to enable the IBJ-IJE's Council to judge the equivalence of the diploma, without prejudice to cases in which the equivalence of a diploma is recognised in the European Union.

If you do not hold a candidacy or bachelor's diploma in law or legal practice, or an equivalent foreign diploma, then please explain below the extent to which you have acquired similar knowledge through relevant professional experience of at least three years:

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Complementary information

Commitments / Mandatory declarations

I declare that the information provided above is correct and complete.

I agree to inform the Institute without delay of any change in my situation relating to the mandatory information in this form.

I agree to respect, from the moment of my admission as a member of the Institute, the statutes, regulations and decisions of the Institute's competent bodies (despite any appeals) and in particular the Institute's code of ethics, of which I have been made aware via www.ije.be or on request via info@ije.be.

I agree to respect, from the moment of my admission as an associated member of the Institute, the statutes, regulations and decisions of the Institute's competent bodies (despite any appeals) and in particular the IBJ-IJE's code of ethics. I therefore agree to respect, among other things, the confidentiality of the Practice Groups and the regulations governing associated members of the IBJ-IJE of which I have been made aware via www.ije.be or on request via info@ije.be.

By selecting this box, I agree to respect the conditions set out above.