This unique opportunity draws on the core skills and knowledge of legal professionals and the Citizenship Foundation's expertise in educational partnerships. It offers clear educational benefits to young people and enables volunteers to gain a real insight into the lives and issues that affect young people in their local community. The scheme has been running successfully since 1999 with law firms and in-house legal teams working with local secondary schools across the UK.
The London office has just come to the end of the 2011/12 Lawyers in Schools programme which was delivered by 28 volunteers (including six in-house lawyers from Everything Everywhere).
Lawyers in Schools is a unique employee volunteering opportunity designed to facilitate links between corporate law firms and local secondary schools, predominantly in economically deprived areas. It provides an opportunity for lawyers to engage students in interactive discussions about various legal issues relevant to their daily lives. Legal professionals draw on their expertise to increase awareness and understanding of the law among young people, including a greater appreciation of the justice system and their rights and responsibilities.
In the 2011/12 academic year, volunteers from Bird & Bird have delivered sessions to students at Central Foundation Girls’ School on: Learning about the Law, Discrimination, Employment Law, Police Powers, Youth Justice and Applying the Law.
Peter Brownlow, one of our partners, commented:
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