Public Legal Education Resource Creator

Organisation Overview

The Social Impact team at BPP design and deliver projects that enable students and learners to develop new skills and gain new experiences, while giving back to the local community. Projects include legal advice clinics (including housing; consumer; family and welfare rights), an employment law helpline; public legal education workshops; and reverse mentoring EDI schemes. The team also partner with social mobility charities to deliver programmes (e.g. skills bootcamps) which support individuals from diverse and/or lower socio-economic backgrounds to access professional careers.

Role Details

Time commitments: To be negotiated with volunteer. 

Attendance: Remote.

Required Skills and Experience

The Social Impact team at BPP train over 50 law students each year to support the delivery of over 100 hours of free public legal education. Workshops are usually 1 hour long. All materials are pre-written and signed off by a Social Impact Manager in the Social Impact team (who is a qualified lawyer).

The Social Impact team track legislation on its progress through Parliament. If there is a significant development in the law which relates to a topic in the Social Impact team’s workshop precedent bank, BPP’s preference is for an external lawyer with the relevant specialism to provide commentary on what changes would be needed to the existing workshop materials. They would seek a summary of the change in the law and advice on updates required to the workshop content.

The following areas of law currently fall outside of the Social Impact team’s specialisms, and are therefore areas where they would be in particular need of support:

Criminal law

Intellectual Property

Human Rights

Probate / Private Client

Requests for support would be issued on an ad hoc basis with an estimate of time commitment (which will usually depend on how extensive the changes in law are). A deadline will also be set (although this can usually be flexible to accommodate the volunteer’s existing work commitments).

Please contact us to express an interest in being added to a database of volunteers who can be contacted about ad hoc requests. There is no obligation to agree to an particular request.

Required Skills and Experience

Knowledge of the relevant area of law

Research and drafting skills

Ability to summarise law in simplistic language

Volunteers must be practising barristers

To apply for or express an interest in this position, please email bicenquiries@weareadvocate.org.uk