With hands-on experience of working in your sector, our lawyers understand the issues and pressures you deal with every day. We provide a full support service covering every legal issue encountered, including:
- Integration of health and social care
- Complex commercial projects and PFI
- Regeneration schemes
- Outsourcing and procurement
- Public authority governance
- Public authority member governance
- Public sector information law
- Adult social care
- Children's social services
- All litigation services
Our approach? Put simply, it's solving your legal problems as quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively as possible. We're LEXCEL accredited, committed to electronic case management, and our people know their subject inside-out. We'll help you drive improvement through our research facilities, professional training, secondments and staff development support.
We are members of numerous large local authority framework agreements, including EM LawShare, the North West Legal Consortium, North East Procurement Organisation and Kent Commercial Services Group.
We are committed to delivering innovative solutions to the most difficult issues which you face and we work in partnership with our clients and in-house product and innovation specialists to develop cutting-edge ideas.
We are also corporate partners of LLG (Lawyers in Local Government) and work with it to provide a defence line for local authority monitoring officers.
We're brand leaders in defendant litigation services for local and public authorities, with in-depth expertise in all types of claims including motor, public liability and employers' liability. We have considerable experience in handling sensitive and/or high profile claims, such as bullying, failure to educate and abuse, and are equally skilled in handling the media attention that these cases sometimes attract.
Risk management strategies, both general and claim-related, are a specialism.
We advise on policy and attend committee and risk management meetings on issues affecting local authorities; we've also developed a special fraud detection package for public bodies. As well as working direct with local authorities, we're on the panel of all major public sector insurers. Our training adds value, too, from our own seminars and national conferences to work with local, regional and national groups.
