Community partners

About community partners

The School of Law at the University of Reading is one of the UK's top-ranked law schools. We actively seek to further develop our relationships with local and regional commercial organisations. We work closely with our community partners who provide support including scholarships, sponsorship, prizes, internships and career opportunities for our students. 

Our community partners

The School of Law is grateful for the support provided by our existing community partners:

• Ashurst Solicitors
  Provides sponsorship for two internships for law students to enable to them to work for a period of 3 months at the International Bar Association in London.
  
  

• Blandy & Blandy
  Provides a prize for the best performance Writing Credit.

• Boyes Turner
  Provides prizes for the award for best performance in Writing Skills and EU Law. They also provide negotiation training for students.

• City Solicitors Education Trust
  Sponsor of the Law Library.

• Clarkslegal
  Provides prizes for the best performance in Constitutional and Administrative Law and Equity and Trusts. They also contribute to the School’s Employability and Commercial Awareness Workshops.  Clarkslegal have also sponsored the 2008 Journal of Environmental Law lecture held at the University of Reading in October 2008.

• College of Law
  Provides prizes for the two best Writing credit Pro bono Portfolio.

• Deliotte and Touche LLP
  Provides an Employability and Commercial Awareness Workshop.

• Field Seymour Parkes
  A sponsor of the Law Annual Lecture.

• Higher Education Active Community Fund
  Provided a grant for 2006-7 to employ a lawyer to establish a Streetlaw project.

• International Bar Association
  Provides and sponsors a three month internship to a law graduate within their Human Rights Institute.

• Keith Wright Memorial Prize
  Award for the best overall performance in Part 2.

• LexisNexis
  Provides a prize for Legal Skills and are a major sponsor of the Annual Paul Jackson lecture. They provide a trained student to assist staff and students with LNB research.

• Nabarro
  A sponsor of the School's Annual Lecture.

• Olswang
  Provides a prize for the best performance in Company Law and Employment Law. They are also sponsors and contributors to the Employability and Commercial Awareness Workshops. Olswang is a generous contributor to the Law Library.

• Osborne Clarke
  Sponsors of the internal Mooting competition.

• Oxford University Press
  Provides a prize for the best performance in Criminal Law.

• Pearson Education
  Provides a prize for the best performance in General Principles of Law.

• Pitmans  
  Provides guaranteed summer vacation placement to two Reading Law Students.

• PriceWaterhouseCoopers
  Provides a prize for the best performance in Revenue Law and have generously provided fund to furnish and plant the Waterhouse Courtyard in the grounds of the School of Law. Contributors and sponsors of the Employability and Commercial Awareness Workshops.

• Routledge-Cavendish
  Provides a prize for the best performance in Contract Law.

• Shoosmiths
  Provides a prize for best overall performance in Part 1 and Part 2 and also in Land Law and Tort. They provide workshops on networking and on commercial property. From October 2007 they will sponsor training for Law School students to become CAB generalist advisors.

• Sweet and Maxwell
  Provides a prize for the best finalist.

• Tony Roe Solicitors

   Provides a prize for the best performance in Family Law.

• United Biscuits
  Provision of Jaffa cakes for lectures in statutory interpretation.

• Vodafone
  Sponsors and provides an Employability and Commercial Awareness Workshop. Provides an open day for Reading Law students.

If your organisation would like further information becoming a community partner please contact us.