Education Solicitor

Location

England | United Kingdom

Job description

Education Lawyer - Associate / Senior Associate / Legal Director

Education Lawyer - all levels - Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle or Leeds

Associate to Legal Director - all levels - national recruitment campaign - The Education team of this leading top tier law firm is looking for solicitors at all levels with to advise a range of educational institutions, both public and independent. The team have built up a real presence in the education sector and is now on a major expansion drive across its national network.

Summary

• Job Title: Associate to Legal Director
• Location: National - Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds
• Salary: £50,000 +
• Work pattern: hybrid
• Reports to: Partner
• Previous experience: NQ-level upwards. The team is considering candidates at all levels all the way from 0 PQE to Legal Director. Compliance experience would be beneficial but the team is also open to candidates who wish to retrain from another area of law.

An overview of the Education team

Clients consist of multi-academy trusts, single academy trusts, grammar schools, community and special maintained schools as well as independent schools and universities. You will work with the Partner and Legal Director who head the team. Lawyers in the department advise on everything from admissions advice to discrimination and equality act cases to regulatory issues and general governance matters.

Examples of work include:

• creating academy trusts and advising on their regulation including in relation to funding agreements and notices to improve etc.
• academy conversions as well as trust-to-trust transfers
• advising on student and pupil exclusion cases, equality and diversity cases including claims for disability discrimination.
• Advising institutions in meeting their obligations in terms of supporting students with special needs - knowledge of equality law, including in relation to special educational needs and Children and Families Act 2014 would be highly beneficial.
• Advising in relation to Ofsted inspections including Ofsted reports and challenging the inspection process
• Advising on Freedom of Information and Data Protection requests
• General commercial work including contract reviews

The above list is by no means exhaustive. This is a varied, intricate and complex area of law covering all aspects of legal compliance and governance as it applies to the education sector.

Broad range of candidates considered including retrain possibilities

The Education team is looking to attract talented lawyers at all levels all the way from NQ to Legal Director level. Any prior experience of advising educational institutions would be a major advantage. The hiring managers are also ready to consider solicitors from other areas of compliance and regulatory as a transferable skill set as well as other areas of law such as social care.

This is a fantastic opportunity offering genuinely interesting, engaging and impactful work. If you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to apply or get in touch for further information.

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Salary

£50k - £75k per annum