Mr Lee Hennell

Job: Senior Lecturer in Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 257 7431

E: lee.hennell@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Lee qualified as a Solicitor in 1998. He worked in private practice for 12 years, specialising in Commercial Real Estate and acting for owners of national leasehold commercial property portfolios.

In 2010, Lee left private practice and set up an in-house legal team at the Shoe Zone Group of companies as their General Counsel.
Lee has been a lecturer since 2018 when he joined De Montfort’s Law School. He has developed, written and delivered various modules at both undergraduate and post graduate level including Property Law & Practice, Commercial Property, Solicitors Accounts and Equity & Trusts.

One of Lee’s notable achievements was as part of a team who developed and delivered the Legal Practice Course to cohorts of Trinidadian students.
Lee is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also a qualified mediator.

One is Lee’s passions is to develop the employability of law students. To that end, he has created a number of partnerships and initiatives between the Law School and the legal industry, the purpose of which is to introduce DMU’s talented law students to potential employers.

Areas of teaching

Property Law & Administration of Estates, Commercial Property, Solicitors Accounts, Equity & Trusts, Inter Professional Legal Skills and dissertation supervision.

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) in Law & Business Administration.
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
  • Solicitor (currently non-practising).
  • Qualified Mediator.

Courses taught

LLB, Legal Practice Course, SQE LLM.

Honours and awards

Nominated for a DMU Staff Recognition Award in April 2024 for a positive impact on student experience.

Membership of professional associations and societies

Member of the Law Society since September 1998.