qLegal relies on its partnerships with practising solicitors to deliver high-quality, pro bono legal advice and public legal education to entrepreneurs and start-ups. During the 2020-2021 academic year, we had a record number of partnerships with law firms and in-house legal departments.
Partners regularly tell us about the twin satisfactions of training the next generation of lawyers and giving free legal advice to entrepreneurs and start-ups. Specific benefits include:
qLegal students learn directly from and interact directly with practicing solicitors who sit in on client interviews and provide detailed feedback on interview plans, legal advice letters, workshop scripts, toolkits and podcasts.
qLegal relies on the deep subject matter expertise of its solicitor partners, collectively experts in intellectual property, commercial, corporate and data privacy law, to ensure that the legal services the students deliver to entrepreneurs are of the highest quality.
When combined with the up-front teaching and additional feedback from qLegal staff, these partnerships enable students to deliver high quality services to clients while also developing and expanding their professional networks.
In addition to reviewing and giving feedback on the legal aspects of the students’ work, supervisors model different legal styles and different career paths for the students. At the end of the term, qLegal invites some of its pro bono solicitor partners to speak with the students about their career paths and to answer questions about their professional lives.