[1] The society was founded on 3 January 1818 at a meeting in the Royal Hotel in Temple Row.
Birmingham at that time had no courts of its own and the society initially had 19 members out of a total of 54 lawyers practising in the town.
[2] The society took over the Birmingham Law Library, then based in Waterloo Street, in 1832.
In 1934 both society and library relocated to a former temperance hall on Temple Street designed by architect Charles Bateman in 1933.
[3] In 2008 Birmingham Law Society transferred its library to Aston University and in 2009 it moved out of the Temple Street premises.