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Free personal injury law service offered as NLS Legal joins forces with Hodge Jones & Allen

Free personal injury advice is to be given to members of the community through a new collaboration between NLS Legal, Nottingham Law School's teaching law firm, and legal firm Hodge Jones & Allen.

    People gathered in the reception of the NLS Legal office
    NLS Legal, Nottingham Law School's teaching law firm

    Law students will be trained to work alongside qualified lawyers from Hodge Jones & Allen to offer an initial personal injury advice service primarily for people based in Nottinghamshire.

    The partnership aims to raise awareness of people’s rights in relation to personal injury cases, as well as giving students further opportunity to gain real-world experience and training.

    Much of the advice will be offered remotely for quick access, with the option for clients to attend in person at NLS Legal to ensure the service is accessible to all.

    NLS Legal is Nottingham Trent University’s on campus teaching law firm and was established as part of Nottingham Law School’s commitment to supporting access to justice and to delivering transformational legal education.

    Laura Pinkney, head of NLS Legal, commented: "We are pleased to be working with Hodge Jones & Allen to expand our pro bono service. Our firms have a shared commitment to access to justice and we are delighted that Hodge Jones & Allen will be working with us to utilise their experience and expertise for the benefit of both our students and our community."

    The partnership will be led at Hodge Jones & Allen by partner, Daniel Denton, who has represented personal injury claimants for over 20 years and has built a wealth of experience in handling cases including where individuals have suffered injuries from a road traffic crash, an accident at work, or in a public place. Sometimes the injuries sustained by Daniel’s clients have proved to be life-changing and so, along with gaining compensation, Daniel also works to arrange effective rehabilitation treatments and care to get people’s lives back on track.

    Commenting on the new service, Daniel said: “HJA’s Personal Injury team are looking forward to working with NLS Legal. I have always been committed to helping people who may wish to pursue a personal injury claim and working alongside NLS Legal and the NLS students will provide added personal reward.

    “It is important to me that everyone has an accessible route to understanding their rights and to be able to gain justice. I am looking forward to meeting and working with law students who are committed to helping people understand personal injury law and what courses of action are open to them.”

    Carlota González Láynez, practice manager at NLS Legal, added: “Working with Daniel and Hodge Jones & Allen will add another important arm to our pro bono services and provide our students access to and further understanding of personal injury law. We are pleased to be able to offer them a new project and a new area of law for them to develop their legal skills".

    Members of the public are welcome to submit an enquiry to the new service via the NLS Legal Enquiry form online: NLS Legal - make an enquiry

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      About NLS Legal

      NLS Legal is an exempt charity and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nottingham Trent University (NTU). It holds an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The firm was the first of its kind when it became regulated in 2015 and these models remain rare in the higher education sector.

      NLS Legal is a multi-award winning operation. In March 2022 they received the ‘Law Firm of the Year Award’ at the national LexisNexis Legal Award.

      Nottingham Law School is one of the largest law schools in the United Kingdom with over 150 staff and in excess of 3,000 students. It is one of the leading providers of academic and professional legal education with an outstanding reputation in the delivery of innovative courses.

      About Hodge Jones and Allen

      Hodge Jones & Allen (HJA) solicitors empower people to find support and justice when they have been let down or made an honest mistake. As one of the UK’s most progressive law firms, the firm’s Help service fights injustice in Medical Negligence, Personal Injury, Asbestos and Mesothelioma, Crime, Housing and Property Disputes.

      For over 45 years the firm has worked to help ordinary people overcome extraordinary challenges. HJA has been at the heart of many of the UK’s landmark legal cases that have changed people’s rights and lives.

      Hodge Jones & Allen has expertise across: Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Criminal Defence, Dispute Resolution, Family Law, Financial Crime and Regulatory, Housing and Property Disputes, Medical Negligence, Mental Capacity & Deputyship, Personal Injury, Asbestos & Mesothelioma, Wills & Probate, Environmental Justice.

      www.hja.net @hodgejonesallen

      About Nottingham Trent University

      Nottingham Trent University (NTU) received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2021 for cultural heritage science research. It is the second time that NTU has been bestowed the honour of receiving a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for its research, the first being in 2015 for leading-edge research on the safety and security of global citizens.

      The Research Excellence Framework (2021) classed 83% of NTU’s research activity as either world-leading or internationally excellent. 86% of NTU’s research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent.

      NTU was awarded The Times and The Sunday Times Modern University of the Year 2023 and ranked University of the Year in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023. It was awarded Outstanding Support for Students 2020 (Times Higher Education Awards), University of the Year 2019 (Guardian University Awards, UK Social Mobility Awards), Modern University of the Year 2018 (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide) and University of the Year 2017 (Times Higher Education Awards).

      NTU is the 5th largest UK institution by student numbers, with approximately 40,000 students and more than 4,400 staff located across five campuses. It has an international student population of 7,000 and an NTU community representing over 160 countries.

      Since 2000, NTU has invested £570 million in tools, technology, buildings and facilities.

      NTU is in the UK’s top 10 for number of applications and ranked first for accepted offers (2021 UCAS UG acceptance data). It is also among the UK’s top five recruiters of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and was the first UK university to sign the Social Mobility Pledge.

      NTU is ranked the second most sustainable university in the world in the 2022 UI Green Metric University World Rankings (out of more than 900 participating universities).

    Published on 20 October 2023
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