FromCounsel: for leading universities

FromCounsel helps law schools to deliver what matters most: better prepared students, more practice-ready learning, stronger employability outcomes and a clear competitive edge.

Our content combines the collective knowledge of leading barristers from the top chambers with the experience of FromCounsel's senior knowledge lawyers from top city firms. This gives both students and academic staff access to legal insight shaped by the practitioners involved in the most important cases and transactions in their field. Unlike static legal texts, FromCounsel is a fully maintained service, with content updated daily to reflect legal and market developments.
 
 FromCounsel offers a trusted legal knowledge, legislation, news, precedent and markets resource that supports more professionally aligned learning beyond traditional research tools. We also provide a growing library of 80+ interactive e-learning modules, designed to support practical legal skills development at scale.
 
FromCounsel covers UK corporate law, restructuring and insolvency, and employment law. Further UK content is coming soon across corporate tax, private client, banking and finance, dispute resolution, commercial, pensions and trusts, and competition law. 
 
 By making legal education more relevant, practical and valuable from day one, our forward-looking platform for the education sector supports employability, innovation, academic distinctiveness and student recruitment. 

 

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The FromCounsel difference:

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A stronger student value proposition for your university
Helping students think and work more like lawyers from the start. FromCounsel enables law schools to bridge the gap between academic study and professional practice with trusted legal knowledge, practical drafting support and interactive training that reflects how law is applied in modern practice. The Q&A-based structure reflects how legal issues arise in practice, helping students move from academic understanding to applied legal reasoning. 

It helps students build understanding from foundational principles through to the more difficult and unresolved issues that arise in practice.
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Built with the credibility universities can trust
The quality of our expertise sets FromCounsel apart. Our content is written and maintained by barristers from the leading chambers in their field, together with senior knowledge lawyers. 
It is the only resource that gives students and faculty access not just to public-domain law, but to expert insight shaped by the issues leading practitioners encounter in live matters - including questions not yet resolved in the reported authorities. Editors’ views help users navigate difficult or unresolved issues with reasoned guidance grounded in expert consensus.
 
Outside of the education sector, FromCounsel is used and trusted daily by over 90% of the top 100 law firms.
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Support academic staff without administrative burden
FromCounsel helps academic staff deliver richer practical learning at scale. Structured legal answers, training modules and drafting resources can support:
  • seminars
  • independent study
  • legal tech initiatives
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Differentiate your law school in a competitive market
For universities competing on employability, innovation and academic distinction, FromCounsel offers a clear advantage. It is more than a content subscription: it is a visible investment in curriculum modernisation, student outcomes and professional readiness.

 

Meet the corporate experts

Michael Todd KC
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Martin Moore KC
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David Chivers KC
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Peter Arden KC
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Andrew Thompson KC
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James Potts KC
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Andrew Thornton KC
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Edward Davies KC
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Ben Shaw KC
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Nigel Dougherty
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Ben Griffiths
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Patrick Harty
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Jack Rivett
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Anna Scharnetzky
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Chantelle Staynings
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Andrew Blake
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Philip Morrison
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Seamus Woods
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Tom Hall
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Erskine Chambers

Our in-depth corporate content is written and maintained by barristers from Erskine Chambers and FromCounsel's senior knowledge lawyers. Unique ‘editors’ views’ address issues not dealt with by statute and decided cases and the robust multi-stage review process enables you to treat the platform as a reliable single source.

Meet the R&I experts

Tom Smith KC
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David Alexander KC
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Mark Arnold KC
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Adam Al-Attar KC
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William Willson KC
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Marcus Haywood
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Hannah Thornley
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Clara Johnson
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Georgina Peters
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Henry Phillips
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Robert Amey
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Andrew Shaw
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Ryan Perkins
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Edoardo Lupi
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Stefanie Wilkins
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Daniel Judd
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Jamil Mustafa
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Paul Fradley
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Peter Burgess
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Rabin Kok
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Imogen Beltrami
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Dhananjay Kumar
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Charlotte Ward
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Angus Groom
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South Square

With unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise, South Square is the pre-eminent chambers for restructuring and insolvency law, including alternative dispute resolution.

Their members have acted in many of the most important restructuring, insolvency, banking, commercial, company and fraud-related disputes of recent times.

 

Meet the employment experts

Robin Allen KC
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Paul Epstein KC
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Daphne Romney KC
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Jacques Algazy KC
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Caspar Glyn KC
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Rachel Crasnow KC
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Schona Jolly KC
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Tom Coughlin KC
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Sarah Fraser Butlin KC
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Paul Mitchell
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Carolyn D'Souza
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Claire McCann
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Tom Brown
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Adam Ohringer
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Dee Masters
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Chris Milsom
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Olivia-Faith Dobbie
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Caroline Musgrave-Cohen
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Nathaniel Caiden
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Chesca Lord
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Rachel Barrett
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Tamar Burton
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Jennifer Davies
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Jonathan Cook
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Charlotte Goodman
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Laurene Veale
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Helena Ifeka
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Ameer Ismail
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Cloisters Chambers

Cloisters is highly reputed for expert knowledge in all aspects of employment law and their barristers are routinely instructed in groundbreaking cases at the leading edge of UK and European law.

Their award-winning employment team are widely recognised as experts in their field and skilfully set the agenda in employment law, appearing in almost all major employment litigation in the UK.

Recently described in the Legal 500 as the ‘best set in London for employment work’.

Prepare the next generation of legal professionals:

  • FromCounsel gives students more than theory. It helps them build confidence in applying legal principles, not just memorising them.

  • The result is more practice-ready graduates, stronger employability outcomes and a more compelling student value proposition.

  • With strong alignment to SQE readiness, legal technology and practical skills development, FromCounsel supports the next generation of legal professionals with learning that is credible, current and closer to the realities of practice.
  • In a world increasingly shaped by legal technology and Gen AI, the quality of outcomes depends on the quality of the underlying legal information. FromCounsel helps universities give students access to a source that is trusted, current and built for professional use.

 

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