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Nottingham Law School hosts Legal Tech Insight Event with Freeths

Nottingham Law School hosted Richard Hodkinson, Chief Technology Officer at Freeths, for an innovative Legal Tech Insight Event on Wednesday 27 March 2019.

    Richard Hodkinson of Freeths facilitated the Legal Tech event

    Students are often required to demonstrate to law firms that they understand “Law Tech”, yet it can be difficult to articulate what this actually means for commercial practice.  In his presentation, Richard not only explained a range of technological innovations and outlined how they are used in legal practice, but also got students to knuckle down and apply their newly found knowledge to a practical problem.

    Wednesday’s event is part of NLS’s work in embedding an understanding of innovative technologies and their applications in legal practice into both the curriculum and extra-curricular activity.

    Freeths is a top 50, commercial law firm and a Strategic Partner with Nottingham Law School.

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      Nottingham Trent University was named University of the Year 2017 at the Times Higher Education Awards and Modern University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018. The award recognises NTU for its strong student satisfaction, quality of teaching, overall student experience and engagement with employers.

      Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has been awarded the highest, gold, rating in the Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework for its outstanding teaching and learning.

      The University is passionate about creating opportunities and its extensive outreach programme is designed to enable Nottingham Trent to be a vehicle for social mobility. NTU is the sixth biggest recruiter of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the country and 95.6% of its graduates go on to employment or further education within six months of leaving.

      NTU is home to world-class research, winning The Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2015 - the highest national honour for a UK university. It recognised the University’s pioneering projects to improve weapons and explosives detection in luggage, enable safer production of powdered infant formula and combat food fraud.

    Published on 1 April 2019
    • Subject area: Law, criminology and justice
    • Category: Nottingham Law School