Education

“Clients receive a highly focused service and are confident that matters will be resolved, to the highest standard and to our timescales.” Chambers & Partners

Overview

Academic institutions stand or fall on their reputations. As do we.  We are proud to have retained our standing as national leaders in the provision of legal advice to the education sector.  Our clients include The University of Oxford, many Oxford colleges, Oxford Brookes University, Imperial College, independent schools, national research councils and academic research associations such as JANET (UK) and DANTE.

You won’t be surprised to hear that our education experts all have in-depth experience of working with higher education and academic clients. Added to this, we understand the importance of legal advice that is grounded in an understanding of the commercial and cultural factors facing all academic organisations.

As with running a university or college, success is most often due to team work.  Our cross-disciplinary team works together to ensure that our legal advice is supported by wider understanding. We provide expert education sector advice on:

• Governance and constitutional change
• Regulatory issues, including health & safety
• Estate management, property management and disputes
• Staff and student policies
• Charity law and trusts
• Trading subsidiaries
• Standard contracts
• Spin-outs and licensing
• IP, IT and outsourcing
• Research collaborations
• Joint ventures
• Protection and exploitation of IP
• Avoiding and defending claims from staff, students, customers and the public
• Employment law