Education

For more than twenty years education lawyers at Bond Pearce have been at the forefront of working with educational establishments and have a wealth of experience in the education sector.

Bond Pearce has one of the strongest education teams, with a broad based education practice, advising on the strategic and operational needs of schools, colleges, and both higher education (HE) and further education (FE)institutions, as well as other education-related bodies.

Bond Pearce is listed as one of the recognised firms in the nationwide education section of the Chambers 2006 and 2007 Directories which highlight the firm's standing and reputation and refers to clients enjoying working with our lawyers because they are "responsive and understand our needs" and praised the team's ability to "put itself in our shoes and give sound advice".

The team has extensive knowledge of education law, and are active members of the Education Law Association.

To be successful advisers, lawyers must understand the needs and objectives of their clients. Bond Pearce believes in a collaborative approach, working with, rather than for, its clients and ensuring its lawyers have the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver. In this way, we operate as if we are part of our clients' in-house team.

Other notable current achievements

• we are recognised as national leaders for the provision of advice on disability discrimination
• our university health experience is at the leading edge
• from our cutting edge experience gained in the retail sector we have extensive experience of outsourcing
• we have been involved in many partnering and franchise arrangements in the sector
• we were responsible for the creation of the first venture capital fund to provide seed corn finance for a university's spin out companies
• we have been involved in complex disciplinary issues involving internal procedures, fairness and resulting litigation for many HE and FE institutions
• we are now contracted to run a help line for members of the National Association of Disability Practitioners.
• we act for over 20 FE colleges
• our property team has great experience of dealing with projects around the building of teaching and student residencies and with the resulting planning highways work which is needed for developments