In July 1938 The Law Society invited the National Socialist Lawyer’s Association of Germany (National Sozialistische Rechtswahrer Bund) for a party in London to meet the leading English lawyers of the day. The trip was an apparent success because the president of the Law Society was invited back to Germany in 1939, before war intervened.
Shortly after the visit, from late 1938 to spring 1939, the City of London Solicitors’ Company lobbied the Law Society to ease restrictions on German and Austrian lawyers wishing to qualify as articled clerks. This was primarily to help Jewish lawyers in Nazi-controlled jurisdictions escape to the UK.
