Nottingham Trent University announces strategic partnership with Potter Clarkson

Nottingham Trent University is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with one of the largest full service intellectual property practices in Europe, Potter Clarkson. This partnership will focus on developing the talent and skill of the workforce in the region, and helping to develop industry ready graduates for the legal sector.

Potter Clarkson are the largest single UK-sited specialist IP firm outside London, and employs 60 qualified professionals and 90 paralegals, administrators and support staff in their local Nottingham office.

Potter Clarkson will benefit from the highly skilled NTU talent pool, including graduate roles, undergraduate placements, projects and cooperation programmes for Nottingham Law School (NLS) and wider NTU students.

The partnership also brings about other key areas of collaboration between NTU and Potter Clarkson, including teaching and learning, innovation, research and development.

Potter Clarkson will also continue to support the NLS Legal Advice Centre, as well as providing input into NTU's curriculum development, to allow our courses to be both industrially attractive and suitable for accredited professional bodies.

As a result of the partnership, there is the opportunity for collaboration around the NTU Enterprise agenda, connecting Potter Clarkson to the NTU Enabling Innovation programme, as well as to our new facilities such as the Enterprise and Innovation Centre (EIC) and Medical Technology Innovation Facility.

Colin Baker, Managing Partner at Potter Clarkson said; 'We have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Nottingham Trent University, providing specialist intellectual property advice as a member of its legal panel, as well as getting involved in joint initiatives to promote and support innovation in the city. Our firm is also home to several alumni of the university who have gone on to build successful careers following their studies at NTU. That's why it is particularly pleasing to see our relationship further strengthened by becoming one of the university's strategic partners. We look forward to forging even closer links across the university in the coming months and years.'

NTU's Vice-Chancellor, Edward Peck said; 'Potter Clarkson and Nottingham Trent University enjoy a strong relationship that has been developing for some time. This partnership will allow for us to explore new ways of working together, for the benefit of our students, Potter Clarkson, and the city of Nottingham.

Working closely with Potter Clarkson, the largest single UK specialist IP firm outside London, presents a unique opportunity for our students to benefit from Potter Clarkson's particular insights, skillsets and expertise.

This relationship will become all the more important over the coming months and years with further opportunities to collaborate as Nottingham Trent University significantly increases investment in its Enterprise and Innovation activities'