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Leeds Legal launches its Education and Enterprise challenge for 2009

Leeds Legal is calling for the city’s law firms to get involved in Leeds’ largest annual volunteering initiative for the profession, Education and Enterprise Week .

Taking place Monday 12 – Friday 16 October, Leeds Legal Education and Enterprise Week, running in conjunction with Leeds Ahead, is set to welcome lawyers to take part in a range of school-based activities in some of city’s most deprived communities.

Last year’s event - which attracted almost 200 individuals from the city’s law firms - saw eager volunteers getting involved in running sessions on ‘the world of work’, mentoring children in the classroom and encouraging young people of all ages to take an interest in business and enterprise, but in a fun and friendly way!

Rosemary Edwards, director of Leeds Legal and a partner at Shulmans, said: “We’re delighted to be launching this year’s Leeds Legal volunteer initiative, it really is a great opportunity to get involved and give something back to the community.

“We felt that the Education and Enterprise theme worked very well for the volunteers last year, although for many it was the first time they had been back to school for a good few years! But they were happy to knuckle down and get involved with the activities, they all enjoyed
sharing their experiences and knowledge to inspire the children they were working with.”

For more details, or to register your place for this year’s Education and Enterprise Week, please contact Rosemary Edwards on 0113 297 7724 or redwards@shulmans.co.uk

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30 July 2009

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Note to Editors:

Leeds Legal is the first city-based legal sector marketing campaign which promotes Leeds’ collective legal services. Supported by the Leeds Law Society and regional office of The Law Society of England and Wales, Leeds Legal is funded by a number of key sponsors including UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) Millnet Northern, Jet2.com, Hilton Leeds City hotel, Leeds Metropolitan University and Marketing Leeds. The Leeds office of corporate legal practices Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper, Lupton Fawcett and Clarion Solicitors are spearheading the campaign. Associate sponsors of the initiative include: Beachcroft, Gordons, Irwin Mitchell and Shulmans.

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