Legal education consultancy

Nottingham Law School has a considerable degree of expertise in initial training needs analysis, design and delivery of bespoke postgraduate award courses for law firms and qualification frameworks for professional bodies and regulatory organisations across the legal services sector. This extends from half a day's CPD programme for a law firm to advising and rewriting the qualification frameworks for entire professions in the legal services sector.

The focus for our legal education consultancy is the Legal Education Group, which also operates as a research cluster for the law school focussing on research in legal education as well as a forum for colleagues within the law school to discuss matters of common interest. The group coordinates an annual internal Learning and Teaching Event and coordinates the law school's responses to consultation papers relevant to the wider legal services context. Recent responses to consultation papers include:

2009
CHING, J., CRAWFORD, D. and JARMAN, J., 2009. Response to Solicitors Regulation Authority discussion paper: Agenda for quality. Solicitors Regulation Authority , Nottingham; London; Redditch .

2010
CHING, J., 2010. Response to ILEX/IPS consultation paper on Qualifying employment: work based learning. ILEX/IPS , Nottingham; Bedford .
HODGSON, J. 2010. Response to JASB Consultation on Collaborative Arrangements. BSB , London
IRETON, E., JARMAN, J., ROBSON, J. and CHING, J., 2010. Response to Joint Advocacy Group proposals for a quality assurance scheme for criminal advocates. SRA; BSB; IPS , Redditch; London; Bedford .
MILLWARD, M., 2010. Response to JASB Consultation on Compensation/Condonation in Qualifying Law Degrees. BSB , London.

The Group contributes to research projects in the legal services community and provides consultancy in legal education matters to the legal professions and beyond, in the UK and abroad.

Core members of the group are Andrea Nollent; John Hodgson; Graham Ferris; Rebecca Huxley-Binns and Jane Ching. You can find out more about the core members of the group on their individual web-pages. Some of their recent projects in the legal education field include:

a project to test a set of competencies designed by the professional regulator for entry level lawyers in the workplace
a project working on the relevance of values in legal education
a project on risk and regulation in the legal services sector
a project to redesign the qualification framework for intellectual property professionals
a project to advise on a redesign of the qualification framework for property law professionals
a project on risk management education for legal professionals
a project on the early career learning of legal professionals
a project on transition of students into higher education
a project on assessment
numerous projects to design, develop and deliver programmes on a bespoke basis for law firms and legal professionals in the UK and elsewhere, including postgraduate awards.

For further information about our legal consultancy services, including fees, please contact us on telephone +44 (0)115 848 4460 or email.