USLSA-Western Region

How will joining USLSA-WR benefit your school?

  • Annual Conference provides 10+ hours of CLE eligible seminars dealing with issues relevant to legal offices serving students enrolled in higher education;
  • Access to current year's CLE materials;
  • Opportunity to serve in leadership roles;
  • Right to vote in matters related to the organizational structure, membership, conference location, or proceedings;
  • Eligibility to win the J. Raymond Schiflett, III Office of the Year Award and Jim Aldridge Special Project of Excellence Award;
  • Professional support and feedback from fellow members.

Membership eligibility

  • Attorney Members.  Attorney Members are fully licensed attorneys in good standing with their local bar association, who are employed or retained by a member institution to provide legal services and advice specifically for the currently enrolled students of that Member Institution.  There is no requirement that the service must be physically located on the members’ campus.  
  • Member Institutions.  The member institutions of the Association shall consist of all universities that are located in states that are in whole, or in part, west of the Mississippi River, and, which have as an employee a person who qualifies as an Attorney Member pursuant to Article VI, Section 1.  Non-attorney representatives of member institutions may attend all general meetings and conferences of the Association, but will not be allowed to vote either directly or by proxy. 
  • Out of Region.  Any institution that is not within the defined geographic region as described in Sections 1 and 2 above may become an active permanent voting member of this region by: 1) petitioning for membership 2) attending and paying the prescribed conference dues to any three annual Western Region conferences within a seven (7) year period AND 3) receiving a majority vote of the present and voting members at the end of that third conference.  Such a candidate school will not be eligible for voting during that third conference, but may participate in voting in all future attended conferences thereafter.