Herbert Smith Freehills Community Engagement Awards 2017

Organisation : Herbert Smith Freehills
Award Name : Community Engagement Awards 2017
Application Last Date : 7th July, 2017
Award Ceremony : September 2017
Applicable For : Law Students in India
Prize : £2,000

View Entry Form : http://sites.herbertsmithfreehills.vuturevx.com/18/10814/landing-pages/herbert-smith-freehills–community-engagement-awards-entry-form.asp
Award Details : https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/ceaindia
Home Page : https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/

Community Engagement Awards :

The Herbert Smith Freehills’ Community Engagement Awards recognises and champions meaningful and high impact community engagement activity led by law students in India.

Related : AMA India Annual Awards 2017 : www.contest.net.in/24414.html

How To Enter :
Entries may be submitted in the form of a short film (2-5 minutes in length), supported by additional information via the entry form.

The focus is on key achievements and impact, and therefore, we are not looking to focus on other aspects such as the quality or presentation of the film. We would also like to hear your views on how the prize money would make a difference to your chosen non-profit partner.

Your entries will be assessed by the Herbert Smith Freehills’ Community Engagement Awards committee, and winners will be selected by a panel made up of members of our India practice.

Criteria :
Your entries will be judged on the basis of :
** social impact
** sustainability of the impact of your project
** innovation
** presentation of the entry

We encourage you to focus on one particular project which you/your team have developed over the previous twelve months – a project which demonstrates excellence in legal or non-legal work. The judges will give particular credit to work which creates strategic and sustainable impact.

The judges will also be looking for individuals or teams with projects that have effectively achieved its key objectives. The scale of the projects may vary, but we are looking for entries which are able to demonstrate a coherent approach to meeting the needs of the community.

Please see below specific criteria for each category :
Community investment through legal work
The project/initiative should be one or more of the following types of legal work :
** NGO internships
** advisory work
** case work
** legal research
** policy development
** training/capacity building
** legal drafting
** contract review and/or
** pro-bono partnerships

We are looking for examples of innovation and best practice by law students providing pro bono legal work.

The project/initiative can :
** be an NGO internship
** tackle issues affecting any community (at the local or national level)
** deliver social value – social, environmental or economic benefits to the community
** involve a working partnership with the community, charity or NGO
** demonstrate potential for wide impact

If you are unsure whether your project/initiative fits the criteria, please email CommunityEngagementAwards@hsf.com.

Prizes :
We plan to present the Awards to the winners at a formal event in India. The event will be attended by the winners along with invited Herbert Smith Freehills’ partners, employees and guests.

This event will present the opportunity for Herbert Smith Freehills to draw the programme to a close for the year, reflect on its goals and achievements, and present other opportunities for students to engage with the firm.

Non-profit partners of the winners will be awarded a donation of £2,000.

Other Initiatives In India :
As part of our commitment to India, we continue our support for various law schools.

We organise a number of international training programmes and educational events in association with leading law schools in India.

Each event provides an opportunity for Indian law students to interact with, and learn from, some of the world’s leading lawyers and academics – such as Edward Walker-Arnott, Chris Parsons, Justin D’Agostino, other partners at Herbert Smith Freehills, Professor Timothy Endicott (Dean – Oxford Law) and Professor James Edelman (Barrister, Fellow at Keble College, and lecturer and Professor of the Law of Obligations in the Faculty of Law).

We hold a national moot competition in Kolkata each year, have run national essay competitions in Bangalore and have organised international lecture programmes in Jodhpur, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi and Hyderabad – often in conjunction with Oxford University.