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Browne Jacobson LLP is ‘ahead of the curve in terms of knowledge of the education sector, and able to translate changed policy and law into practical legal advice’; it is ‘really rooted in the sector, with a genuine passion for education that marks it out from other heavyweights in the field’. The ‘incredibly knowledgeableMark Blois heads a ‘very commercial and astute’ team, which specialises in employment, governance, property and conversion matters.

Part of Eversheds LLP’s national education group, HR partner Nicola Bennison leads on student issues in the higher education and further education sector, and has recently advised on various pensions issues.

Mary Mackintosh at Freeth Cartwright LLPhas an excellent understanding of the HE environment’ through in-house experience, and heads a team providing property acquisition and development, procurement, landlord and tenant, and employment advice to clients such as Birmingham City, De Montfort, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent universities.

Hewitsons LLP’s practice includes commercial matters, from mergers to conversion to academy status; employment issues (equal pay and discrimination); and construction work. It acts for a number of Oxford and Cambridge colleges.

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