Education

Our Education specialists act for several local education institutions. Our solicitors spend time getting to know you to understand how your organisation works so that we can deliver the tailored support you need to help you achieve your objections.

Our Education Team has a wealth of specific experience in the sector with a number of our solicitors sitting as governors at local schools. The ability to draw on expertise from across the firm, the team is able to provide comprehensive advice in the following areas:

  • Drafting contracts of employment and various other policies
  • Dealing with disciplinaries and grievance situations
  • Restructuring
  • Academy conversions
  • Defending discrimination claims (relating to both physical and mental impairments)
  • Advising on challenges to suspensions, exclusions and admissions decisions
  • Advice on documentation and procedures (admissions policies, appeals policies etc.) that can help to ward off claims
  • Debt collection – we have extensive experience of recovering fees for schools
  • Joint ventures and consortiums
  • Mergers 
  • Property matters and construction projects
  • Charity and trust issues
  • Health and safety
  • Commercial contracts
  • Intellectual Property protection – and spin out vehicles
  • Multi Academy Trusts
  • Governance

Education Legal Retainer

We also offer a dedicated legal retainer service exclusively for our educational institutions. We have developed the service to provide educational institutions cost effective legal advice and the ability to budget for their legal needs on an annual basis for a fixed fee. The all-encompassing package includes a full range of legal services that a school or academy may ever need assistance with, including HR & employment law, GDPR and data protection, contracts, property, disputes, governance and educational law queries.

The service provides unlimited advice on particular concerns and issues that may arise. Effectively your own in-house legal team of specialist solicitors for a fraction of the cost for a fixed annual fee. Find out more about the Education Legal Retainer here.

Contact us

For further information on how the LP Education Team can help you, do contact us:

what our clients say

Legal 500
Leathes Prior provides an excellent, prompt and professional service; it is incredibly difficult to find any fault.
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Approachable and responds readily to clients’ requests with clear advice. A boon to education clients.
Legal 500
Leathes Prior’s Polly Langford advises many independent schools in Norfolk. She represented a school in admissions policy and Equality Act matters.
Legal 500
Mike Barlow’s team at Leathes Prior provides exemplary service and extremely quick responses.