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qLegal Annual Report 2024-25

We reflect on key activities and successes from the qLegal community over 2024-25.

qLegal Annual Report 2024-25
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Joining qLegal was one of the main reasons I chose to study at Queen Mary.
— Anna Massy, qLegal Extern

This year we:

And more...

Legal advisory

The 52 students providing written legal advice to startups used their GenAI training to ensure the advice was clear and legally correct, and they remained compliant with the legal sector’s high professional duties, including confidentiality.

The advice …has [ensured] my start-up’s intellectual property and confidentiality are protected well.

Externships

Start-up founders who received legal help one day a week from a student placed within their business, and the 32 students who were being placed for 5 months, learned how best to work together in our first in-person kick-off meeting.

qLegal alum returns as supervisor

Former Fibe extern, Mavi Bezzi, was recruited by the start-up, who returned this year to welcome two new externs. Mavi enjoyed supervising them.

Public Legal Education

Start-ups and budding entrepreneurs attended eleven workshops delivered by qLegal students on topics from greenwashing to commercial contracts. This complemented free videos and written resources for start-ups, where students demystify the law.

Today was a resounding success, thanks to the engaging workshops hosted by qLegal.

Innovation Projects

Mixed teams of law, geography, linguistics and psychology students used Design Thinking to help our client, Green Tech Legal Collaborative, identify cross-cultural communication challenges between start-ups and City lawyers.

Yours Lawfully Podcast

Eight of this year’s episodes featured mixed teams of law and tech students interviewing experts on topics relating to AI – though other technology, media and telecommunications areas were covered too!

Green Talks

Ropes & Gray and Bloomberg sponsored this Ted Talks-style thought- leadership competition in which students spoke on topics relating to sustainability and law.

Academic Modules

This year’s new Public Legal Education and Legal Design modules mirrored the extracurricular programmes – but with added theory and assessments.

Student experience

Waffle the dog was the star among all the students and staff who joined members of the London legal community in raising funds in the Legal Walk.

Out and about

Between them, qLegal team members spoke at seven legal, education and tech events and attended many more to stay sharp on innovation in law, enterprise, and education.

So what?

qLegal helps the next generation of lawyers, help the next generation of clients, to create value in the world.

Since qLegal started...

1,651students

have boosted their knowledge and skills by providing support to start-ups.

2,561start-ups

have made progress in their ventures through qLegal.

£3,233,00worth of support

has been provided to clients by our students.

More feedback from the year:

[The] work delivered real business value… it helped us move forward on complex topics.
Having help with early stage legal research reduced the time and money we needed to spend
[I’m] just blown away by how useful [the students’ work] is going to be. They really understood the pain points.
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