Linden Thomas is a Reader in Clinical Legal Education and Pro Bono at The University of Birmingham. She is supervising solicitor for Birmingham Law School’s Clinical Legal Education programme, which engages over 240 students each year in law clinics, Streetlaw, externships and research and policy based pro bono initiatives. She has been co-Chair CLEO since 2017 and is co-founder of the annual UK and Ireland Streetlaw Best Practices conference. She researches and publishes on Clinical Legal Education and was lead editor of the 2018 edited collection ‘Reimagining Clinical Legal Education’. She is also co-editor of the Clinical Legal Education Handbook, a free, open access guide to CLE, published by The University of London in May 2020.