School is well and truly back in session for our volunteer lawyers
‘This was beneficial to my education and important to my future’ was the comment made by a student from St Matthew Academy in South-East London this term as groups of lawyers entered the classroom in a...
View ArticleDeputy Vice President of the Law Society visits a Lawyers in Schools session
Deputy Vice President of the Law Society of England & Wales, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, is a mental health and human rights lawyer and also managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff Harbour and Sinclair a...
View ArticleLawyers in Schools training session
Victoria Honan is an in-house lawyer at Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto and Baker McKenzie have come on board the Lawyers in Schools scheme this year joining forces to deliver sessions at Sion Manning Roman...
View ArticleLawyer Charlotte Doerr, of McDermot Will & Emery, faces a class of school...
Charlotte Doer is a lawyer at McDermot Will & Emery. The firm joined the Lawyers in Schools programme for the first time this year and is working with London Nautical School in Lambeth. As a...
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My first Lawyers in Schools session…
Monday 12th November saw the first Lawyers in Schools sessions of 2012/13 for Burlington Danes Academy. There, lawyers from Olswang and BBC Worldwide work in partnership to deliver the programme to two...
View ArticleWhy take part in Lawyers in Schools?
Trainee solicitor Tamara Vasiljeva, co-ordinated volunteers and took part in the Lawyers in Schools programme for McDermott Will & Emery this year. They are partnered with London Nautical School in...
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Lawyers in Schools and Parliament week
In case you weren’t already aware, this week is Parliament week. What’s that, I hear you cry? Well it is a UK-wide programme of events and activities that have been designed to inspire, engage and...
View ArticleBringing non-teaching professionals into the school classroom: part one
Many schools benefit from bringing other professionals into the classroom. But, in the hustle and bustle of the teaching day, it can be easy to forget that such visitors are not familiar with school...
View ArticleBringing non-teaching professionals into the school classroom: part two
Having volunteer professionals come into the classroom can be a rewarding experience for everyone concerned. But it can be daunting, too. In the second part of this two-part series for teaching staff,...
View ArticleManaging behaviour in the classroom, for non-teachers: part one
In this two-part series for volunteer professionals, our Lawyers in Schools team have put together some advice on managing student behaviour. Find out how to facilitate a successful discussion in the...
View ArticleManaging behaviour in the classroom, for non-teachers: part two
In the second part of this two-part series for volunteer professionals in the classroom, our Lawyers in Schools team have put together some strategies for dealing with challenging behaviour. The class...
View ArticleWhy give up your time to go back into the classroom?
When you look back on your school days do you remember employee volunteers coming into your classroom? Chances are you don’t; if you do, you might remember these incidents fondly but feel they were a...
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