Education: Institutions

A&L Goodbody has established itself as a leading legal advisor in this sector. We are the appointed lawyers for:

• the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools - the largest employer of teachers in Northern Ireland (6,000 teachers). CCMS is the advocate for the Catholic Maintained schools sector in Northern Ireland (over 750 schools). It supports the management of Catholic Maintained schools through boards of governors.
• the Controlled Schools' Support Council - which advises schools in the controlled sector, the largest education sector in Northern Ireland, accounting for 48% of all schools.
• the panel of the Education Authority – we are retained to provide advice in relation to high value employee relations matters.
• several independent secondary institutions
• Regional Colleges of Further and Higher Education within Northern Ireland – we are appointed to provide a wide range of legal services included, commercial, contract and procurement law, construction and estates management, corporate governance, education and charity law, employment law, litigation and dispute resolution and property and land law.

We regularly provide educational law advice for both of the independent Universities in Northern Ireland – Queen's University of Belfast and the University of Ulster across a diverse range of instructions.