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Union membership will ensure you support and security throughout your career. As a member of an Akava affiliate union, you have access to guidance and assistance, for example, when seeking a job or making an employment contract. We offer you security in different phases of life – you don’t need to master everything yourself.

The union serves as a professional and working life community for you. It promotes the interests of its members at workplaces, on the labour market and in society at large. It also provides you with individual services and useful information.

Our service is intended for those who actively seek information about trade unions. The service enables you to search for a suitable Akava union by your field of education or degree. If you cannot find a suitable union by using the search function, don’t hesitate to contact us!


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Akava is comprised of 36 affiliate unions representing individuals with higher education. There are two ways of searching information: by field of education or by degree.


The Association of Finnish Lawyers

The Association of Finnish Lawyers seeks to promote the economic and social interests of lawyers, develop professional skills and maintain a high standard of professional ethics. The Association was established in 1944 by Finland's seven leading lawyers' associations, which sought to create a body which would promote the professional interests of all lawyers.

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Tehtävä ja toiminta

The Association welcomes all lawyers as members. It is globally unique that we have a single union that represents comprehensively all lawyers, regardless of whether they are in employee or employer roles, across the public and private sectors. Our members hold legal expert and supervisory positions or work as entrepreneurs. Approximately 10,500 members are active in working life, some 4,500 are students of law and 1,100 are retired. Of those in working life, 53% are employed in the private and 47% in the public sector.

Who can join

Law degree that can be compared to Finnish Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree. Comparing is based on international agreements.

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