The Legal Practice Hub
  1. Advocacy Group
  2. Alternative Dispute Resolution Group
  3. Civil Litigation Group
  4. Criminal Litigation and Sentencing Group
  5. Evidence and Proof Group
  6. Legal Education Group
  7. Legal Ethics Group
  8. Legal Technology Group
  9. Events
The Legal Practice Hub

Legal Education Group

Our aim is to facilitate a wider and deeper understanding of the evolving legal education and training needs of the professions (including legal executives and paralegals), and to offer researchers, scholars and trainers opportunities to share best practice in meeting those needs. This includes engagement with the discourse on how best to educate lawyers for entry to, and progression in, the professions.

Themes to be explored include:

  • Effective learning strategies to achieve vocational and academic legal education that links critical thinking to practice-focussed learning and values
  • How to develop competence in legal knowledge and skills and ethical standards for those entering the legal workplace
  • How to embed best practice in workplace training and career development to maintain career-stage appropriate competence and outcomes
  • How to create a more equal, diverse and inclusive legal workforce
  • How to recognise, nurture, develop and retain talent within the legal workforce
  • How legal scholarship, research and educational theory informs concepts of ‘graduateness’ and workplace learning and career development
  • How best to enhance employability
  • The role of Clinical Legal Education

Subject group leads:

Linda Jotham

Linda Jotham

Marcus Soanes

Marcus Soanes

Other staff:

Emily Allbon

Laura Blatchford

Clare Brown

Catherine Davies

Emeritus Professor Nigel Duncan

Dr Stephen Halsall

Professor Tammy Hervey

Peter Hungerford-Welch

Jenny Knox

Ronnie Lachkovic

Danon Pritchard

Marian Riley-Poku

Sonali Shah

Nikki Walsh

Dr Lijun Zhao

Useful resources:

Clinical Legal Education Association

Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Law subject benchmark statement

Office for Students (OfS)

The Law Society - Becoming a solicitor

The Legal Education Foundation

Sutton Trust: Pathways to Law