Join or Renew Membership in the National Lawyers Guild If you live in or around our staffed chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Michigan or Massachusetts: please click the appropriate link to sign up with and pay dues directly to those chapters. All others, proceed below. Membership in the National Lawyers Guild is open to attorneys, law students, legal workers (which includes legal observers) and jailhouse lawyers (to learn more about joining as a jailhouse lawyer member, which is free, see this page). Legal workers are defined as anyone who is involved in the work of any office, collective or other institution which has as its primary function the provision of legal services, information or education. If you are not an attorney, law student, or legal worker, please consider becoming a Friend of the NLG. To learn about benefits of joining, please see our Why Join page. 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If you'd like to ask about our sliding scale policy, please email membership@nlg.org. To purchase a membership as a gift for someone else, visit our Gift Membership Card page. To renew via mail and pay by check, download and print this form. SUGGESTED DUES SCHEDULE: New Legal Observer Member (first year of membership): $25 New Legal Worker Member (first year of membership): $25-65 Law Student/Recent Law Grads: $25-65 Retired: $25-800 New National Immigration Project or National Police Accountability Project Member: $50 New Attorney Member (first year of membership): $65 Income under 30K: $65-100 Income 30-50K - $100-200 Income 50-70K - $200-300 Income 70-100K - $300-500 Income 100-200K - $500-600 Income over 200K - $600-800 Any questions about membership? 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