Henry Hodge Traineeship at CoL

The Henry Hodge Traineeship, which the CoL is also to fund, has been created in memory of the CoL’s former Deputy Chair of Governors, Sir Henry Hodge, a leading pioneer in legal aid practice who died of leukaemia last June.

Applicants are invited from those who have taken or about to complete their LPC at the CoL.  They must also have already demonstrated a strong commitment to legal aid practice, for example through taking the Legal Aid LPC Pathway.

The successful applicant will spend the first year at the CoL’s Legal Advice Centre at its London Bloomsbury centre, starting in September 2010.  The second year will be spent on secondment to leading legal aid firm Hodge Jones & Allen LLP of which Henry Hodge was a founding partner in 1977.

Richard de Friend, the CoL’s Chair of the Academic says: “I am delighted that the College is honouring Henry Hodge’s life and work with the traineeship. The trainee solicitor will work in the Legal Advice Centre on housing, immigration and employment cases in their first twelve months, assisting people who cannot afford legal services and even some who are totally destitute. 

“Henry Hodge’s dedication to legal aid will be remembered in every activity the trainee undertakes and in their second year the trainee will join the firm that Henry set up as a champion of legal aid.” 

The closing date for applications is June 30, 2010. For more information contact Professor Sara Chandler, Pro Bono Coordinator at The College of Law in Bloomsbury, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)