Free Talks | LawWorks

LawWorks develops resources which provide general information for not-for-profit organisations on specific areas of law, to enable them to spot and avoid potential legal problems. Theses resources include Free Talks.

Free Talks

Free Talks are short online videos presented by solicitors about common legal issues faced by small not-for-profit organisations.

The videos are all free to watch and aim to help you when making important decisions.

We are hugely grateful to the Legal Education Foundation for funding this project.

Please see below for a list of Free Talks. Choose the relevant legal topic from the drop-down menu in the grey box (titled “Not-for-profit resources”) and click on any relevant videos.

If your organisation has any further questions that are not covered by the Free Talks, take a look at our Memos and FAQs webpage.

Contact us

If you have any comments on any of the Free Talks videos, or if there are specific issues you think it would be helpful for us to cover in future videos, please email us: nfp@lawworks.org.uk

Working with Law Firms

Date last reviewed: December 2nd, 2021

Jessica Tagg from the law firm Reed Smith LLP discusses the 'know your client' (or 'due diligence') checks t

Demystifying contracts for not-for-profits

Date last reviewed: November 3rd, 2021

Tom Gorrard-Smith, Salmah Ebrahim, Charlotte Boland and Parman Dhillon, who form part of Amazon UK Operations' legal team,

Charity Trustee Duties

Date last reviewed: October 14th, 2021

Jessica Neville and Rachael Southern, from Bates Wells’ charity and social enterprise team, discuss the duties and responsibilit

Equality, diversity and inclusion for charities

Date last reviewed: August 26th, 2021

Kathryn Finch – solicitor, EDI consultant and founder of Quartz Consulting and Coaching – chats to Debjani Biswas-Hawkes of LawW

Data protection for charities

Date last reviewed: January 25th, 2021

Peter Parker, a Partner in the Charities & Social Economy Team at Wrigleys Solicitors, chats to Debjani Biswas-Hawkes of Law

Charity property transactions

Date last reviewed: September 22nd, 2020

Tim Wrigley, a Partner in the Charities & Social Economy team at Wrigleys Solicitors, speaks to Matt Hunt of LawWorks about

How to incorporate a charity

Date last reviewed: July 24th, 2020

Sylvie Nunn, a Partner in the Charities & Social Economy department at Wrigleys Solicitors, speaks to Matt Hunt of LawWorks

Managing redundancies

Date last reviewed: August 16th, 2019

Charles Pigott from Mills & Reeve LLP talks about how to manage redundancies and outlines what a fair procedure typically lo

Intellectual property: preventing infringements

Date last reviewed: August 16th, 2019

Bethan Lloyd, a lawyer from DLA Piper UK LLP, outlines what to do if someone infringes your intellectual property rights and als

How to protect your brand

Date last reviewed: August 16th, 2019

Alasdair Muller, a lawyer from DLA Piper UK LLP, summarises different intellectual property rights and how they can be used to p