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CCS Prospectus CCS prospectus April 2017 RM3786 General Legal Advisory Services Contents Mandatory specialisms Page no. Introduction.............................................................................................................................................. 2 Public law ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Contracts ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Competition law ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Construction law ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Corporate law .......................................................................................................................................... 7 Dispute resolution ................................................................................................................................... 8 Employment law ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Environmental law ................................................................................................................................. 10 EU Law .................................................................................................................................................. 11 Information law including data protection law ....................................................................................... 12 Information technology law ................................................................................................................... 13 Intellectual property law ........................................................................................................................ 14 Litigation ................................................................................................................................................ 15 Non complex finance ............................................................................................................................. 16 Outsourcing ........................................................................................................................................... 17 Partnership law ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Pensions................................................................................................................................................ 19 Planning law .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Projects/PFI/PPP .................................................................................................................................. 21 Public Procurement Law ....................................................................................................................... 22 Real Estate and Real Estate Finance ................................................................................................... 23 Restructuring / Insolvency ..................................................................................................................... 24 Optional specialisms ............................................................................................................... page no. Tax law .................................................................................................................................................. 25 Education law ........................................................................................................................................ 27 Child law ................................................................................................................................................ 28 Energy and natural resources ............................................................................................................... 29 Food, Rural and Environmental Affairs ................................................................................................. 30 Franchise law ........................................................................................................................................ 31 Health and Healthcare law .................................................................................................................... 32 Health and Safety law ........................................................................................................................... 33 Life Sciences ......................................................................................................................................... 34 Public Inquiries and Inquests ................................................................................................................ 35 Telecommunications ............................................................................................................................. 36 1 RM3786 General Legal Advisory Services Introduction With government departments expected to deliver functions with an increasing emphasis on improvement and efficiency savings, our talented lawyers recognise the pressures that this brings. We have a long track record of advising government departments and the wider public sector, so our lawyers have the knowledge and expertise of your sector to ensure the very best level of advice. We understand the pressures that you face, and keep a close eye on the ever-changing political environment in which you operate. We provide advice that is both tactically and culturally relevant. Our ethos is to develop long-term mutually beneficial relationships with you, our clients. In practice that means we commit to delivering those things you should expect from your law firm as well as adding value to your organisation. Our aim is to be seen by you as an extension of your team and you should feel free to ‘bounce ideas’ off our people. As a national law firm with offices in Birmingham, Exeter, London, Manchester and Nottingham, we are able to offer local support to government teams across England. We have over 900 staff, including 500+ lawyers and over 140 partners, who offer you a unique collection of specialisms across the commercial, public, health and insurance sectors. Our cross-sector experience allows us to bring commercial acumen to the advice we provide. We really believe in offering our clients an exceptional client service and in 2014 we were the first UK law firm to receive the Investors in Customers (IIC) Gold Star Accreditation for Exceptional Client Service (ECS), and have recently undergone successful reaccreditation. ECS is key to our firm’s strategy ‘The Drive for Quality’. Through surveying our clients, IIC gave us the maximum award based on: understanding client needs meeting client needs delighting clients engendering loyalty Richard Barlow, Partner T: +44 (0)115 976 6208 / +44 (0)7801 037831 E: [email protected] Richard is a leading public sector lawyer who is head of the firm’s public sector practice and is the CCS framework lead partner. 2 RM3786 General Legal Advisory Services Public law Our nationally recognised administrative and public law team advises on governance, vires and judicial review. The team advises our central government and NDPB clients on their statutory and administrative law obligations. Case studies – the following is a small sample of Key people our experience and capability. DBEIS – Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) Transfer Richard Barlow, Partner Scheme Following the decision to create the OGA as a t: +44 (0)115 976 6208 government-owned company, we advised upon m: +44 (0)7801 037831 the Transfer Scheme to ensure that the correct e: [email protected] assets, rights, property and liabilities were passed from the Department to the OGA. The work was Richard is head of our public sector practice and undertaken within a compressed timescale and the advises many administrative law compliance and transfer Scheme was project managed, drafted on decision-taking bodies. Richard heads our CCS time and within budget. Framework. He acts for central government, Natural England, the Marine Management Organisation and Independent Parliamentary Standards many other government bodies. He has considerable Authority (IPSA) - MPs’ Security Measures experience of public law, government Transfer Vires Schemes and judicial review actions. We advised IPSA in relation to new arrangements for securing the delivery of security measures for MPs at their homes and constituency offices in the light of the shooting of Jo Cox MP. The House of Laura Hughes, Partner Commons had arranged for a security firm to fit certain minimum security measures to all MPs’ t: +44 (0)115 976 6582 homes and constituency offices. We advised IPSA m: +44 (0)7824 370102 on the mechanism by which it could ensure the e: [email protected] firm was paid for this service notwithstanding that IPSA were not the contract holder, and also ways in which IPSA could retain oversight of the Laura specialises in administrative and public law and contract. has extensive experience
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